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■- CO-OP nOTES ■ . •
Mt MISERS HI I- NOTICE'
The following !'emjtership notice .’"as mail
ed this reek,to all voting and n.robat ioi}
al members of the I!»V*F.C.A.
l.!3!.3TT}SrTr' TC1TICS
A special meeting of the I'atanuska
Talley Farmers Cooperating Association' /
rill be held--in the ralner Community
Hell ’’ednesday, January 21, 1948 at 8 pm.
This'meeting is a continuation of Nov
ember 1;, 194? and December 1C, 1947 meet
ings. - ' ■ "r
1 l-vTAIUSIlA VAL'LDY FAJT^-S '
COC^DHATrTG ASSOCIATIC”
Harol d l. Thur.h, ‘^ec' y
At this meeting the recommendations of
the Yembershi" Ccismittee mhich ras-ap
pointed at the last meeting December 10';
rrin be considered and a vote rill be
talien on the recommendations rhich rare
offered by the hoard of Directors' at "this
meet in —on the Reorganization plans.
SEED AND FERTILIZER
Cur first seed and fertilizer order has
been acknowledged by our supplier, '"e
have been advised by then that our order
of beardless barley is "ractiaally im
possible to fill with a strain of pure
beardless variety. The so-called Beard
less Barley obtainable in the Torth’-est
during the last year, contains about 10#
'- Bearded barley. The Lilly company ad
vises that any beardless barley*shipped
will therefore bo mixed with .bearded,
Tr.e only other item with which re are
having difficulty is securing Fhosphate ‘
of .Anonia. Our supplier •.•rites thpt they
"•ill make every effort to fill our order.’
As estimated order for ‘:30,0dc.00 worth
of seed and fertilizer has been -"laced.
It ray he necessary to place a .supulenenT
tary order. Anyone who has not signed
for a seed order or sent in .his require
ments, must do so immediately. Those
placing their orders will have '-priority
"hen tiie seed and fertilizer arrives,
___ (cont foued on page '3') _
THE-WEATHER
Lloyd C. King,
Observer at
—1)47-41} MODEL
official reather
ebnier'inent fetation.
The coldest d'ay recorded during December
19.47 ras on' the; l'B’’and 19 '-hen the min
' imum reached ;-3. Boing back a year to *
December 1946,' the coldest recorded n
December 15, .at -29.' -•• •
Comparing this last December -ith previous
December? re fipd"that the average minimum
temperature'for"December from 1917-4?
ras 5.1. The '.average minimum for December
15.47 "os 14.b. This is 8‘.4 degrees ■ -armer
than the average. ;'s
Connariv.r. the maximum termeratures over the
same period ’“of• t ire -e find that -the aver
age from 1917-194S for December’is- 77.5.
The average -aximum for 1947 is 51.6. This
is 9.1 decrees -armer than the average..
The highest December temera’ture ever re
corded' ra's in, 1954 rhe^ the thermometer
reached 65 The^ highest this.,year, or .
December 1747 -as 45 degrees -or TO. degrees
-less • t-h-an -tijc highest ever recorded at the
Tx-erinent Station since records have been
k’GT'*t •
Cn the other hand the lr-est December tem
perature ever recorded in the alley -as
in 1917 -her. the mercury dbo-mbd'to -34.'
This year,.or in December 1947 the mercury
hit its forest at -3. ‘
Hand in hand rith the rumer reather for '
Se-c ember 1947, re have less than the aver
age snorfall ty 3,5 inches, according to*
f.'i-'ures Hept at the Station. The average
for December 1917-1943 is 9.3 inches, and
for De'cemb’er ■ 1947, 6.1 inches.
f-oinrr.back to the all to rej.1 .remembered
bitter cold of a year ago re find that our
taverage Tiitn-irnus-for the -first ^nrt of
January is 7 degrees colder this year—
"balie*'e it or not. . The -minimum tempsrature
reading at the station for January 1-13,
1948 is -13. Last year the minimum for
{•he same period -'as only -6. Jo-ever it
’’’ill also be becal led that it -as during
•the last-half of January that re had the
intense cold. On January 16 o^ 1947, the
temperature dropped, to -2?7 and the remain
der-of the month jras bitterly cold. A
minimum'of -30 and lo-er < eontinuod page 3)