STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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MEAN WINTER TEMPERATURE. 



The tabulated statement below shows the average temperature by 

 months, and for tlie season also, of the Winter seasons, beginning 

 with the season of 1853-4 and ending with the one of 1883-4; also, 

 showing a mean average for .thirty-one years. Judging from the 

 average temperature for each season, we must conclude that the season 

 of 1879-80 was the coldest — 44.5°; the warmest being the season of 

 1881 — 51.0°; the mean average of thirty-one years being 48.3°- 



