220 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
Professor Moors. If you cut out this paragraph, and under the 
head of ‘‘ General expenses” you say, ‘‘purchase of buildings and 
grounds,” you could leave out this second paragraph entirely by adding 
to the amount under ‘‘General expenses” the $50,000 named in this 
paragraph. 
The CuarrMan. Please give us the names of the 8 stations that you 
propose to establish under the increased appropriation, indicating your 
judgment as to the needs of the service. 
Professor Moors. This list may be subject to a little revision, but 
at the present time I would suggest these stations. The plan of pro- 
cedure is for me to recommend to the Secretary and he apres the 
recommendation, but you know that we have usually told the com- 
mittee where we expected to establish the stations. The first one is 
Madison, Wis. 
The CyarrmaNn. Is there no station there now? 
Professor Moors. No; there is a university. 
The CHatrman. And are you going to connect the station with the 
university ? 
Professor Moore. Yes, sir; in the university building. We will 
probably get rent and heat free. Our local man will lecture to the 
classes in physics during the college term in the evening in addition to 
his regular duties. The next station is Roswell, N. Mex. 
The Cuarrmay. Is that a very advantageous location ? 
Professor Moorr. Yes, sir. The next station is at Honolulu. 
Mr. Scorr. Have you no station there? 
Professor Moore. No, sir. It is our intention to have a section of 
our climate and crop service there, to study the climatology of the 
islands and to publish a weekly crop bulletin from that office. It will 
be of some use to the Pacific coast. 
The Cuarrman. That is not a section of many storms, that portion 
of the Pacific? 
Professor Moors. No, sir; but we need to study the climatology of 
Honolulu—as we are doing for Porto Rico—and we will print a weekly 
crop bulletin there. The next station is at Providence, R. I. 
The CuarrMan. Have you no station there now? 
Professor Moors. No, sir. The board of trade has asked for this; 
has asked that they be given as good a service as is given to cities of 
like size. Hartford, Conn., is in the same category. Heretofore 
we have not established stations so closely together. Mr. Henry did 
not urge this. The commercial interests there do not get their weather 
maps until very late in the afternoon from Boston, and they think 
they are large enough and their industries are of sufficient importance 
to warrant the establishment of this station. 
Mr. Henry. The board of trade and the business men in both of 
those cities have asked for stations. 
Professor Moore. Yes, sir; that is right. 
_ Then there is to be one established in north central Illinois, at some 
city in the north central part of the State. Then comes Durango, 
Colo., and Sitka, Alaska. 
The Cuarrman. What have you in Alaska at the present time? 
Professor Moorr. Nothing. General Greely will have a cable 
through there within a very few months, and by cooperation with the 
Canadians we will get observations that are located north of British 
Columbia, and four or five hundred miles north of our territory. We 
