90 Third Annual Report of the 



STATE WEATHER BUREAU. 



The report of the State Weather Bureau at Cornell University 

 shows that their work has been collected during the year in a 

 scientific manner through the central ofTice and about 100 meteoro- 

 logical stations; that instruments have been furnished to eighteen 

 new observers who have reported to the central oflSce during the 

 year; that the system of displaying the weather predictions has 

 been extended, so that at the present time there are more than 600 

 places in the State which promptly receive and display bulletins of 

 the telegraphic predictions. That much work has been done along 

 the lines of defining the climatic conditions of the various regions 

 of the State, and that a tabulation has been made of the averages 

 of the various meteorological elements covering a period of five 

 years, which are discussed and presented by means of charts which 

 indicate a large amount of work, much of which has been done by 

 voluntary observers without compensation from the State, several 

 of them having made observations as frequentlj' as three times a 

 •day, without any intermission, from the day of the formation of the 

 bureau in 1889 to and including the period covered by this report. 

 It is believed by the people in charge of this service that from these 

 records some of the climatic features of the regions covered may 

 be determined with a fair degree of accuracy. It is also believed by 

 those who have given this work a careful study that the results are 

 of great value and information to physicians, farmers, engineers, 

 boards of health, and others whose interests are or may be liable 

 to be effected by meteorological conditions. This, however, will 

 be better determined year by year from the accumulated facts fur- 

 nished by the observations, as the knowledge is proving to be 

 valuable in many questions relating to agriculture, sanitation, 

 water supply, and the relations of the soil temperature to plant 

 growth. For a detailed account of the work performed during the 

 year I respectfully refer you to the report of that bureau which 

 is transmitted herewith. 



In concluding my remarks with reference to this branch of work, 

 I feel constrained to call the attention of the Legislature to the 

 fact that the work which is being performed by this bureau may be 



