The Bulletin 



From this table it is seen that the hot summer months are also the 

 months of the greatest precipitation. The annual rainfall varies from 

 35 to 68.4 inches and is well distributed. Droughty conditions seldom 

 occur, and damage to crops is rarely suffered, except in the porous soils 

 of the slate belt. In this section also farmers claim that killing frosts 

 occur from ten days to two weeks earlier in the fall and later in the 

 spring than in any other section of the county, lessening the length of 

 the growing season as stated for Charlotte by tw^enty to thirty days. 



The average temperature and precipitation for the months in wdiicli 

 cotton and corn, the two principal crops, are growm indicate excellent 

 growing weather. As a rule, the climate may bo .^aid to be very health- 

 ful. 



AQRK'ULTUUK 



In the early days of settlement the main crops were wheat, corn, oats, 

 and some flax. A few cattle and later many slieep and h(.)gs were raised. 

 The wool w^as manufactured into cloth and the corn in excess of that 

 necessary for luniic ('onsumj)tioii was niaimfactui-cd Into whiskey. 



