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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 



By THOMAS M. LOGAX, AT. D., Meteorologist to the State Board of 'Agriculture. 



In presenting his usual report, the Meteorologist takes occasion to 

 congratulate the Board upon the propitious season at hand. Although 

 at the present writing the rains are tar from being over, still an ample 

 supply has already fallen to insure an abundant harvest and a prosperous 

 year. It is to be regretted that the recpiisition for the printing at this 

 time precludes the possibility of furnishing as completely as is desirable 

 the tables herewith presented. It Avas our design to compile a full 

 record of all the different points in the State where observations have 

 been made the present year. This must, however, be deferred to another 

 year, when, it is to be hoped, that with the steps that have been taken 

 to procure more extended benefit from the " Signal Service," our branch 

 of the agricultural department will be rendered more beneficial, and the 

 husbandman will be enabled to operate with certainty in the field, or 

 prepare himself for the storm which heralds itself by the telegraph. 

 Should the bill which has been introduced into the Senate, providing for 

 meteorological observations in every county, become a law, we will then 

 be possessed of the much needed information for determining the rela- 

 tive value of different topographical districts, and the amount of water 

 necessary to be supplied by artificial means in average seasons. 



The Central Pacific Railroad Company have shown much public spirit 

 in this respect. From information collected by them and printed in the 

 report of the State Board of Health we compile the following table of 

 the inches of rain at various points from August, eighteen hundred and 

 seventy, to July, eighteen hundred and seventy-one: 



