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CHANGING (TIM ATE AND TEMPERATURE Businessmen are not only .catching the rainfall for lack of it', but also the temperature. Whether traveling in the United States or Canada, people tell me that both the winteis and sum mers are getting warmer. This is true with the exception of Florida, and more rain. Believing the above is a permanent change. ; some investment counselors are l advising their clients to sell out ! their fuel oil businesses, woolen factories and even certain stores - -but to re-invest in air condi tioning. synthetic Iibies and soft drink stocks! While in Gloucester. Mass., last summer. I found the fishermen much disturbed because the fish had gone farther north and forced the vessels to go much farther to fish. This, they claim, is one reason for the higher price of fish. In some places—-off the coast of California—the fish have left altogether and scores of great canning plants are idie. Also, fish which heretofore were found only in southern waters are now being caught off New England. WHAT ARE THE FACTS? Without doubt the temperature of certain portions of the ocenn Has increased. This, however, does i.ot justify the common belief that this change of warmer weather will be permanent. It is true that the meal' temperature of the United States and Canada and adjoining waters has increas ed 3 during the past 100 years. But this is nothing for us now to get excited about. This 3° is not llie cause of fish going north, nor a cause for you to change your business. The changes in temperature from year to year which you. the cattle and the fish recognize are due to the changing winds. What causes these changes in the direc tion of prevailing winds is debat able. It may be sunspots, but I believe Gravity is the basic cause of the warm winds blowing over the Northern Hemisphere. The lact that more cold winds are. at the same time, blowing over the Southern Hemisphere should in terest every farmer in the study cf Gravity. In the meantime, don't believe (hat v.-e will not have more early frosts. .Il'SUS AS A WEATHER
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