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COMPARATIVE CLIMATE AND GRAIN FARMING OF CALIFORNIA. 



We invite the reader's attention to the following rain tables for Cali- 

 fornia, England, and the Atlantic Slope, and ask from him a careful con- 

 sideration of the comparisons and deductions succeeding them. 



As a matter of interesting comparison to agriculturists, we append 

 also a table of rain at Chiswick, near London, England, for the same 

 years shown in the two tables which precede it, the only difference 

 being that in the table for Chiswick the record commences with Janu- 

 ary, eighteen hundred and fifty, and ends with December, eighteen 

 hundred and sixty-three, while in the two preceding tables it com- 

 mences with September, eighteen hundred and fifty, and ends with 

 May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, or practically with August, 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-four, as there is commonly no rain from 

 June to September. 



