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while during May and the early part of June of 1907 the weather was 

 very dry and this was the time in which the wheat sown on the silage 

 corn part of the field fell behind. 



The soils on which these yields of wheat were produced were 

 barrens of York county, but today under the high degree of culti- 

 vation, the judicious use of stable manure and the application of 

 commercial fertilizer, they now yield crops that few of the farmers 

 in the lime stone valleys of York county equal. 



These farmers have not done anything phenomenal and not any- 

 thing that well nigh every farmer in the wheat growing sections of 

 this State can not do by early plowing thorough cultivation, the ap- 

 plication of stable manure not too early, seeding and the careful 

 selection of seed. 



WEATHER CONDITIONS. 



The following weather conditions prevailed during the time the 

 wheat was growing: During September, 1906, there was a mean or 

 average temperature of 69.2 degrees, 3.9 degrees above normal. Dur- 

 ing October, the average temperature was 54.8 degrees, 2.1 degrees 

 above the normal. During November, the mean temperature was 



48.2 degrees, 1.7 degrees above normal. During December, 1906, the 

 mean temperature was 35.5 degrees, 4,40 degrees above normal. Dur- 

 ing January, 1907, the mean temperature was 33,2 degrees, 4.0 de- 

 grees above normal. During February, the mean temperature was 

 23.4 degrees, 3.4 degrees above normal. During March, the mean 

 temperature was 42.8 degrees, 3.2 degrees above normal. During 

 April, the mean temperature was 46.2 degrees, 2.9 degrees below 

 normal. During May, the mean temperature was 57.5 degrees, 3.9 

 degrees below normal. During June, the mean temperature was 



64.3 degrees, 4.6 degrees below normal, and during July the mean 

 temperature was 73.3 degrees, 0.9 degrees below normal. We find 

 from this that the temperature from the time the wheat was sown 

 until it was harvested was 3.6 degrees above normal and that this 

 excess of temperature was largely due to the warm December, Jan- 

 uary and March and that there was deficiency in temperature during 

 the months of growth namely April, May, June and July. I really 

 believe that if the weather had been a few degrees warmer during 

 May and June that the tillers in most of the stools would have 

 developed bettor and the yield of wheat would have been larger. 



There was a rain fall of 2.08 inches during September, 1906, a 

 deficiency of 2.05 inches. During October 6.52 inches fell, an increase 

 above normal of 2.36 inches. In November 1.72 inches fell and there 

 was a deficiency of 1.77 inches. 7.04 inches fell in December, an in- 

 crease above normal of 2.40 inches. During January, 1907, 4.28 

 inches,' 0.72 of an inch above normal. In February, 2.39 inches fell, 

 a deficiency of 1.78 inches. During March, there was a rainfall of 

 2.02 inches and a deficiency of 3.18 inches. In April, 2.92 inches fell 

 with a deficiency of 0.87 of an inch. During May, 4.59 inches with 

 a deficiency of 0.28 of an inch. In June 6.66 inches fell, an increase 

 above normal of 1.60 inches, and in July, 7.83 inches fell, an increase 

 of 2.32 inches above normal. From this we find that there is a de- 

 ficiency in rainfall of a half an inch, and farther, that the deficiency 

 in rainfall occurs largely during the growing months, namely March, 

 April and May and September. So that these farmers had only 

 normal weather conditions to produce this yield in wheat. 



