Agricultural Meteorology

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Excerpt from Agricultural Meteorology: The Effect of Weather on CropsThis book is designed primarily for university and college students, but it is entirely practicable for agricultural high schools, and for farmers' reading-courses. It will prove of interest to individuals who wish information regarding cli mate and crops, and the effect Of the weather in varying the yield of crops.The text is the outgrowth Of over thirty years in climate and crop work in different sections of the United States, and fifteen years contemporary instruction in meteorology and agricultural meteorology at the Ohio State University.The advanced students, especially, should use the avail able references at the close Of each chapter. The instructor should extend the exercises and practicums, as the time avail able will admit. Original investigations of the effect of weather on the yield of crops can be made very readily by following the outlined procedure. Published climatic data may be found for individual states by writing the State Sec tion Director, United States Weather Bureau, or the Chief of the Weather Bureau at Washington, D. C. Crop yield data can be Obtained from the State Departments of Agri culture, Or from the Bureau Of Crop Estimates, Washington, D. C.As this is the first text on the subject Of agricultural mete orology that has ever been prepared, the author has had recourse to articles and papers by ecologists, botanists, plant physiologists and pathologists, entomologists, and the like. It has not been practicable to give the references in the text, but the literature at the close of each chapter indicates most of the articles that have been referred to. Charts that are not original or credited in the footnotes are from the publi cations indicated in the references at the close of each chap ter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.