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BOAED OF AGRICULTURE. 



Weather Table, [Continued.) 



Note. — March is usually called a si:)ring month, but in Kennebec it has no pre- 

 tentions to be such ; and in this table is included in the four winter months. It will 

 be seen that the winter of 1841-2 was the warmest, and those of 1853-4 and 1855-6 

 the coldest within the years comprised in the report. 



Mean Temperature of each month, for the year 1858 ; from observa- 

 tions made at Gardiner, Maine: by Hon. R. H. Gardiner. 



Amount of Rain, registered at Waterville College, Waterville, Maine, 

 for each month, from 1850 to 1853, inclusive. 



Note. — It will be seen from the following table, that the mean annual values for 

 18-50, 1851 and 1853, are very nearly alike, and diifcr materially from tiiat of 1852; 

 but the likeness is accidental It is not true in regard to the moisture, as it is in 

 regard to the temjierature of a jilace — and all accurate puljlished observations will 

 show it — tluit the mean value for any one year, dift'ers, by a very small quantity, 

 from the mean value of a series of years, great or small in number. 



Mean moisture for four years, 42.91. 



