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eating;. Mr. James Wixthrop, in communicating tables of this 

 description to the "Transactions of the Massachusetts Society for 

 Promoting Agriculture," for the year 1803, remarks that by these 

 means, prosecuted for many years in succession, he hopes to see 

 " agriculture as much a subject of calculation as astronomy is at 

 present." 



Table I — Of First open Leaves. Average for eight years. 



Table II — Of the growth of Indian Com, and the number of days from 

 planting, for each period of growth. Average for six years. 



Planted. 



Sprouted. 



Tasseled. 



Silked. 



Eatable green. 



May 19. 



May 31. 



July 17. 



July 20. 



August 23. 



No recoVd of the temperature in winter and summer, and of the 

 fall of rain and snow have ever been kept in the county, and I am 

 obliged to present weather tables from situations where the climate 

 and temperature does not differ much from that in the county of 

 Somerset. The first table presents the temperature of the last 22 

 winters, from 1836 to 1858, from observations made at Gardiner, 

 in Kennebec county, latitude 44 dea:. 12min. north, longitude 69 

 deg. 46min. west, by Hon. R. H. Gardiner: 



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