STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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AVERAGE ANNUAL AND SEASONAL TEMPERATURES. 



The statement below shows the average temperature, for each year, 

 for thirty-two years, and for the Spring, Summer, and Autumn, for the 

 past thirty-two years, and the average Winter temperature for thirty- 

 one years. The coldest year, inferring from the average temperature, 

 was that of 1880 — 57.5°; the warmest was 1864 — 62.8°; the mean aver- 

 age for the past thirty-two years being 60.2°, showing the coldest to 

 have been 2.7° below the mean average, while the warmest year being 

 that of 1864, when it was 2.6° above the mean average for thirty-two 

 years. By careful study of the following table, one is struck by the 

 sligiit difference between the coldest and warmest year, as compared 

 Avith a thirty-two years average, generally not more than 3°. That 

 is, we might safely say that the average temperature of any year is not 

 likely to vary more than 3° from 60°, either way, between the hottest 

 and coldest year, as compared with the mean average temperature for 

 the past thirty-two years: 



* The Winter tables are for the Winters from 1852-3 to 1883-4, hotli inchisiVe. 

 t Mean fur tliirty-two years. 

 I Mean for thirty-one yeais. 



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