14 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



JUNE NORMALS FOR IOWA— 1890-1912. 



Normal temperature for June 69.4°. 



Warmest June, 1911, with a mean temperature of 75.7°. 



Coldest June, 1903, with mean temperature of 64.6°. 



Normal precipitation for June, 4.37 inches. 



Wettest June, 1890, with total precipitation of 7.76 inches. 



Driest June, 1911, with total precipitation of 1.82 inches. 



Average number of days with 0.01 inch or more of precipitation, 9. 



Prevailing direction of wind, southeast. 



Average number of clear days, 13; partly cloudy, 10; cloudy, 7. 



JULY. 



From the view point of the agriculturist, July, 1912, was an exception- 

 ally favorable month. The average temperature was 1.2° above the nor- 

 mal and the rainfall was only 0.73 inch below the average of past years. 



The temperature was generally above the normal during the first de- 

 cade of the month, and was below the seasonable average most of the 

 time after the 15th, although there were one or two days during that 

 period when the day temperatures approached very near to or slightly 

 above the century mark. The coldest period was between the 15th and 

 19th, inclusive, when the minimum temperatures were generally below 

 50° over the northern and central districts, the lowest being 38° at Rock 

 Rapids on the 17th. 



The rainfall came in the form of local showers generally accompanied 

 by thunder and lightning, and in a few localities by hail and wind squalls. 

 The showers were, however, well distributed throughout the month and 

 fairly well distributed geographically, but the greater amounts of rainfall 

 were reported from the northern and central counties, and the least from 

 the southwestern counties. The only sections reporting less than 2.00 

 inches were in Cass, Adair, Taylor, northern Montgomery, Wayne, Appa- 

 noose and Delaware counties. From there the amounts increased to 6.60 

 inches in Washington County and 7.40 inches in Mitchell County, the 

 average for the state being 3.71 inches, which is 1.44 inches more than 

 was reported for July, 1911, and 1.85 inches more than in July, 1910. 

 All parts of the state received enough moisture to keep growing crops 

 in prime condition, except in a few localities in some of the southern 

 counties where late corn, pastures and potatoes would have been benefited 

 by a more generous supply. 



As most of the showers occurred at night, rapid progress was made in 

 haying and harvesting, and the bulk of the hay and small grain crops 

 were secured in fine condition. Threshing was well advanced by the 

 end of the month, in the southern, and good progress was made in the 

 central districts. Early reports from threshers indicated an abnormally 

 large yield of all small grain, except in the southeastern counties where 

 winter wheat was light on account of winter killing. Corn made an ex- 

 ceptionally rapid growth, and in spite of the late spring, poor seed, and 

 the ravages of cut and wire worms, which necessitated much re-planting, 



