STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 



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RAINFALL, TEMPERATURE, AND CLEAR DAYS FOR THE 

 SOUTHERN STATES AND PACIFIC COAST. 



The tabulated matter in the following tables was taken from the Chief 

 Signal Officer's annual report for the year 1885, and gives the average 

 yearly rainfall, average Winter. Spring, Summer, and Autumn tempera- 

 tures, also the average annual temperature, the highest and lowest temper- 

 ature, and the average annual number of clear days for the Southern 

 States, Arizona, California, Oregon, and Washington Territory. The States 

 represented in this table are Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, 

 Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky. 

 Missouri, and Texas, Arizona and Washington Territories, and California 

 and Oregon. California stands ahead of all the Southern States in its- 

 having more clear days and a higher minimum temperature than any 

 point in the south except Key West, Florida. This table will be found 

 valuable because it represents such a great number of points in all the 

 Southern States except Maryland and Delaware, and for comparison with 

 California they are out of the question: 



