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which bordered the desert. "Grove" station wa.s .situated in the open 

 orchard midway between the tree just mentioned and its neighbor. 

 "Desert" station wa.s located on tlie open, bare desert about one-half 



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Fig. 4. Daily evaporation from atmometers at four different stations at 

 East Bakersfield in ]017. Ordinates, water loss in cc; abscissae, days of the 

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jnile to windward of the edge of the orchard and many miles to leeward 

 of anj'^ irrigated land (pi. 41)). The data accumulated for nineteen 

 days are shown in figures 2 and 3 and table 5. 



