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thrifty until harvest. The weather of August and early September was ideal and 

 all crops except the most tender vegetables recovered from the set-back given them 

 by the cool June. 



The rainfall was neither excessive nor deficient during the growing season. 

 High winds prevailed on several days, those of July 15 and September 10 and 

 16 being especially damaging to corn and other tall-growing crops. 



Perhaps the most salient feature of the season was that only slight damage 

 resulted from heavy frosts and even from such as are usually called killing. 

 The minimum temperature of May 28 is recorded as 26 although where the plants 

 were actually growing it was really 24, yet the damage was insignificant and 

 confined to the blackening of a few potato tops and killing a few fruit blossoms. 

 So the frosts of September 19 and 25 killed the potato and tomato vines but in- 

 jured less than half of the leaves of the corn. 



The first measurable snow fell November 24, 1902, and the ground was frozen to 

 a depth of four inches when permanent snow fell, December third. 



The tables below give the mean temperature and the rainfall for each day in 

 the growing season. The record for 1901 includes the months from May to Sep- 

 tember inclusive, that for 1902, April to October Inclusive. The mean temperature 

 for a given day is found by adding together the maximum and minimum for that 

 day and dividing by 2: 



MEAN TEMPERATURES. 



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