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of the year are shown in notes and tables compiled from the reports of 

 07 observers in oSTorth Carolina and the adjacent territory of Virginia, 

 Tennessee, and Souih Carohna. The tables show (1) the annual sum- 

 mary for the year by months; (2) annual summaries for stations having 

 complete or nearly complete records throughout the year; (3) the high- 

 est, lowest, and mean barometer for each month of the year; (4) the 

 maximum, mmimum, and mean temperature for each month of the year; 

 (5) tne monthly i)recipitation and number of rainy days; (0) prevailing 

 wind directions; and (7) comparisons of meteorological conditions for 

 the past 13 years, ISSl-'OS. Miscellaneous data relating to snows 

 frosts, local storms, etc., which could not be placed in tabular form, are 

 also given, together with lists of observers and stations in operation at 

 the end of 1893, of weekly crop correspondents, of stations receiving 

 weather forecasts by telegraph or mail, and of publictitions of the 

 weather service during the year. 



Meteorological observations in Arkansas, 1893 (Arlansas Sta. BhJ.28,p. 114). 



A table taken from the State Weather Service report shows the maximum, mini- 

 mum, and mean temperature and rainfall ior each month of the year, and the dates 

 of first and last Ivilling frosts. 



Meteorological records, G. E. Mokrow (Illinois Sta. Bui. 34, pp. 418, 419). This 



is a summary of observations on rainfall and temperature for the 6 years endin<>- 

 Auo-ust .31, 1894. 



Rainfall record, W. H. Heileman {Iowa Sta. Bui. 25, p. 4S).—A record of the rain- 

 fall at the station from September 1, 189^!, to March 1, 1894. 



Meteorological observations at Massachusetts Hatch Station, C. I). Wahneh 

 and F. L. Waiuien (Massachuscfis Hatch Sta. Met. Buls. 67, 6S, and 69, pp. 4 each).— 

 Daily and monthly summaries of observations during July, August, and September 

 at the observatory of the station 



Meteorological summaries for North Carolina, July and August, 1894, H. B. 

 Battle, C. F. \os Hei;kmann, and R. Nunn (Xorth Carolina Weather Service Buls. 

 5S, pp. 17, maps 2; 59, pp. 16, maps 2) —The usual summaries of observations by the 

 State Weather Service, cooperating with the Weather Bureau of this Department. 



Monthly "Weather Review ( U. S. Dcpt. Agr., Weather Bureau, Weather Beview, 22 

 {1S94), Xo. 4, pp. 43, charts 5; Xo. 5, pp. 42, charts 4; No. 6, pp. 3S, charts 4).— These 

 numbers are devoted to the usual topics. 



WATER— SOILS. 



Rhode Island soils, H. J. Wheeler and B. L. IIartwell {Rhode 

 Island »SYa. Bui. 28, pp. 15-33).— T\i(b comparative reliability of chem- 

 ical analysis and soil tests with fertilizers for determining the fertilizer 

 requirements of soils are briefly discussed, and analyses of 7 samples 

 of soil from fields in difit'eient parts of the State which had long been 

 used as pastures are reported. Soils of this character were selected 

 on the supposition that they would yield results comparable with those 

 obtained on virgin soils, for which Hilgard has laid down rules for inter- 

 preting the results of analysis.' It was found, liowever, that Hilgard's 

 basis of interpretation would not apply to Ehode Island soils. 



' Jour. Amer. Chem. Soc, 16 (1894), No. 1, p. 34, 



