226 HEARINGS BEFORB COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
Professor Moore. If you decide to furnish all carriers with fore- 
casts, 90 per cent would be forecasts that are based on the observations 
made the night before, at 8 o’clock. 
Mr. Scorr. Would it not require a large amount of telegraphing to 
send this information ? 
Professor Moors. No, sir. 
Mr. Bow1z. What would be the total expenditure? 
Professor Moors. To do this we would have to send out daily over 
1,000,000 slips of paper not as large as that [exhibiting] from our 
different offices or from the post-offices, and it would cost about 
$50.000 for the slips of paper alone. Weare sending out about 100,000 
now, and to keep pace with the Post-Office Department it would require 
about $100,000 for paper and labor. 
The CHarRMAN. Onder what authority do you do that? 
P.ofessor Moors. The same authority that allows us to send maps. 
We have been sending these cards out for years. 
The Cuarrman. You have not been sending the cards out on the 
rural free delivery for years? 
Professor Moorr. We have been sending them by mail or any way 
that we could send them, and when the rural free delivery was inaugu- 
rated we took advantage of that to reach 100,000 farmers, but can not 
keep up with the anit extension of the rural delivery without more 
money. 
The CyairmMan. Do you send the cards to individuals? 
Professor Moors. We are sending forecast slips to about 100,000 
farmers. 
The Cuarrman. These slips? 
Professor Moors. Yes, sir; not quite as large as that. 
The Cuarrman. Are these cards posted? 
Professor Moore. Yes, sir; in their offices and places of business. 
Mr. Lams. Do you not think that before the reports can get to the 
persons that there would be no benefit accruing to them because it 
would be too late? 
Professor Moors. That is a question for the committee to decide. 
{ will say this: The 100,000 farmers that we reach now mostly receive 
the morning forecast. Most of these carriers leave at 7 o’clock in the 
morning, and in order to increase our distribution of forecasts through 
their agency we will have to use the last night’s forecast. It would 
nave a value, but the same information could be received in the daily 
paper. There isa very general demand for it. I took the position 
at the beginning that we had better not attempt to send out the night 
forecast the next morning, but the people seem to demand that we do 
it. If the carriers generally left at 10 a. m., so that we could supply 
them with morning forcasts, I should strongly urge that each carrier 
distribute the forecast slips to all houses on his route. 
Mr. Henry. What is the result when they find that the forecast is 
practically valueless? Will it not bring discredit upon the whole 
Weather Bureau? The forecasts in the morning papers, 1 believe, 
discredit the Weather Bureau in a great many instances. They are 
misleading to the people who read them. 
Professor Moors. I have not estimated for the service in my report 
and I have not recommended it. I have only brought these papers to 
show you what has been demanded. Here [exhibiting papers] are re- 
