STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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Monthly maximum in fourteen years — July, 1855 



Monthly minimum. January, 1855, November, 1858 



Yearly maximum in fourteen years 



Yearly minimum in fourteen years 



Maximum for fourteen corresponding months — October... 



Greatest monthly average for same time — October 



Minimum for fourteen corresponding months — February. 



Least monthly average for same time — February 



Whole amount of rain in fourteen years 



Average quantity per annum 



6.30 



0.10 

 32.55 

 15.78 

 37.49 



2.82 

 12.60 



0.90 



320.78 



23.06 



It will be observed that the average quantity, as shown above, at Lon- 

 don, per annum, is greater, by over five inches, than at Sacramento, and 

 by over three inches, than at San Francisco, and that while the rain on 

 our coast nearly all falls during the winter and spring months, in England, 

 though very evenly distributed throughout the whole year, yet the largest 

 portion falls during the summer and fall months. 



In the absence of any tables similar to the foregoing for any places in 

 the Atlantic States, we append the following table, compiled from the 

 Army Register, showing the average annual rain at the several places 

 named, for thirty-three years, so arranged as to show the average of the 

 several seasons — spring, summer, autumn, and winter — as this will an- 

 swer the general purpose we have in view : 



Localities. 



Spring 



Summer. 



Autumn. 



Winter. 



Total for 

 Years. 



Eastport, Maine, 



New York 



Baltimore 



Washington 



New Orleans 



Baton Bo age 



Buffalo.. 



St. Louis „ 



Detroit 



8.88 

 11.55 

 11.13 

 10.45 

 11.29 

 15.08 



8.50 

 12.86 



8.51 



10.05 

 11.33 

 11.04 

 10.53 

 17.28 

 19.14 



9.23 

 14.09 



9.29 



10.61 



9.63 



9.31 



10.07 



12.71 



15.40 



7.53 



6.29 



4.86 



39.39 

 42.23 

 42.00 

 41.20 

 50.90 

 62.10 

 34.96 

 41.95 

 30.07 



When we reflect that the agricultural operations of any country 

 depend more for their success upon the proper adaptation of those opera- 

 tions to the seasons, and particularly to the annual rains, than to any 

 other one circumstance — and in this State we may almost say to all other 

 circumstances combined — a careful study of the above tables by every 

 farmer and natural economist becomes particularly interesting and 

 instructive. 



Take, first, the climate of England, governed, or made, if you please, 

 by the influence of the Gulf Stream. It has no extremes of heat and 

 cold, no seasons of alternate drought and excessive wet. As seen by the 

 tables, they have about one eighth more rain there than we do here, 



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