STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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MEAN SPRING RAINFALL. 



TJie table below will bo found to contain tbe record of rainfall and 

 number of days rain fell during the Spring niDiitlis and for the Spring 

 season. It informs us that the wettest Spring season was that of 

 1880— 16.6() inches; and the driest was that of 1857— .68 of an inch; 

 the mean average for thirty-two years being 5.358 inches, showing a 

 deficiency of nearly 5 inches in the dry season of 1857, and an excess 

 of 11.532 inches during the wet Spring of 1880, as compared with a 

 thirty- two years average: 



Spiiinc of- 



Total for 

 Spring 

 Months. 



Total No. 

 Days for 

 Spring. 



1853 



1854 



1855 



1856 



1857 



1858 



1859 



1860 



1861 



1862 



1863 



1864 



1865 



1866 - 



1867 



1868 



1869 



1870 



1871 



1872 



1873 



1874 .-_ 



1875 



1876 



1877 



1878 



1879 



1880 



1881 



1882 



1883 



1884 



Totals 



Averages for 32 y'rs 



11.95 

 4.96 

 9.67 

 5.37 

 .68 

 4.29 

 3.66 



10.47 

 4.39 

 5.43 

 4.41 

 3.12 

 2.31 

 4.75 

 2.82 

 6.93 

 4.83 

 4.03 

 2.90 

 2.83 

 1.06 

 4.31 

 .83 

 5.40 

 1.39 

 4.33 

 8.84 



16.66 

 3.01 

 6.12 

 7.22 



12.52 



171.46 



5.358 



19 

 17 

 24 

 17 

 14 

 20 

 24 

 35 

 14 

 33 

 21 

 24 

 12 

 22 

 14 

 23 

 19 

 14 

 19 

 19 

 8 

 26 

 13 

 27 

 20 

 21 

 31 

 25 

 13 

 19 

 22 

 25 



654 



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