333 GENERAL TOPICS. 



LIST OF HEADQUARTERS OF STATE WEATHER 

 SERVICES. 



The headquarters of the state weather services are as 

 follows: 



Auburn, Alabama. Crete, Nebraska. 



Little Rock, Arkansas. Carson City, Nevada, 



Sacramento, California. New Brunswick, New Jersey. 



Denver, Colorado. Santa Fe, New Mexico. 



Atlanta, Georgia. Ithaca, New York. 



Springfield, Illinois. Raleigh, North Carolina. 



Indianapolis or Lafayette, Bismarck, North Dakota. 



Indiana. Columbus, Ohio. 



Des Moines, Iowa. Portland or Oswego, Oregon. 



Topeka, Kansas. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



Louisville, Kentucky. Columbia, South Carolina. 



New Orleans, Louisiana. Huron, South Dakota. 



Baltimore, Maryland. Nashville, Tennessee. 



Cambridge, Massachusetts. Galveston, Texas. 



Lansing, Michigan. Lynchburg, Virginia. 



Minneapolis, Minnesota. Olympia, Washington. 



University, Mississippi. Parkersburg, West Virginia. 



Columbia, Missouri. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 



BENEFICIAL. AND HARMFUL. HAWKS AND OWLS. 



(Yearbook U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.) 



Much misapprehension exists among farmers as to the 

 habits of birds of prey. Examination of the contents of 

 the stomachs of such birds to the number of several 

 thousand has established the fact that their food consists 

 almost entirely of injurious mammals and insects, and that 

 accordingly these birds are in most cases positively beneficial 

 to the farmer, and should be fostered and protected. 



Among those wholly beneficial are the large, rough-legged 

 hawk; its near relative, the squirrel-hawk, or ferruginous 

 roughleg; and the four kites: the white-tailed kite, Missis- 

 sippi kite, swallow-tailed kite, and everglade kite. 



The class that is beneficial in the main — that is, whose 

 depredations are of little consequence in comparison with 



