Weekly station . age wind velocity, miles. Ardmore: Maximum temperature for the week, 100, minimum 42, total precipitation, . has not been any precipitation of any consequence in this section of thecountry since the middle of June. The week ending August 4th was the hottestever recorded on this station. Twice during the week the temperature reached102, and on one day it reached 103. The crops have suffered materially forwant of moisture and it seems that tilled crops including corn and forage cropssuffered equally as much as small grain, due to the state of maturity of the
Weekly station . age wind velocity, miles. Ardmore: Maximum temperature for the week, 100, minimum 42, total precipitation, . has not been any precipitation of any consequence in this section of thecountry since the middle of June. The week ending August 4th was the hottestever recorded on this station. Twice during the week the temperature reached102, and on one day it reached 103. The crops have suffered materially forwant of moisture and it seems that tilled crops including corn and forage cropssuffered equally as much as small grain, due to the state of maturity of thesmall grain during the excessive hot weather, The annual farmers picnic was held on this station, July 26til. About 700people were in attendance, and it was a pronounced success in every great deal of interest was expressed in the dairy herd which was on exhibi-tion. An exceptionally good feature of the days program was a canning demon-stration given by the County Agricultural Agent in cooperation with an officer. Ar dmor e: (c ont i nue d) of the Brookings Agriculture College. A great deal of interest was expressedby the ladies in this canning demonstration. The chief entertainment of theday was an exhibition of trained thoroughbred horses by Mr. Roy Johnson, wholives in the vicinity of Ardraore. Without expense to this institution, he puton two high dives by two of his horses, and also gave an exhibition of hisgaited horses. Among other horses he had in the show ring was Sterling Princea high school horse of exceptional ability. Some members of this office mayrecall a report which was published in the News Letter0 for the week endingMay 6 , 1916, in which the superintendent of this tation reported the treat-ment of a horse for a broken leg. It will be recalled that this horse wasSterling *Vince. In the show ring on picnic day on this station, he showedthat he had entirely recovered from this broken leg, and was able to use thesame without the casual observer being a
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