WEATHER INFORMATION
lIOW IT WAS GIVEN IN WAR YEARS STRANGE-SOUNDING CODE WORDS London, June 6. Strange-sounding code words passed weather information to farmers in the war years when forecasts could not be broadcast over the 8.8. C.. says the Ministry of Agriculture. The scheme for giving weather information to farmers without undue risk of leakage to the enemy was adopted in 1942. Country war agricultural committees received from the Ministry of Agriculture crazy instructions to “sell a cow,” “buy a horse,” “borrow a jeep,” “hire a pram,” each of which had some code meaning. The committees were not allowed to telephone forecasts to farmers but had to devise ttyeir own system for spreading the information. Son e committees merely passed on hints to farmers, gaining local reputations as weather wizards.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 8 June 1945, Page 5
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130WEATHER INFORMATION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 8 June 1945, Page 5
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