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Agricultural Journal of Victoria. 



THE RAINFALL FOR THE FIRST QUARTER 

 OF 1904. 



The rainfall records for January show a very unusual excess over 

 the average for nearly the whole of the State, the only exception 

 being the basins of the Tambo and Snowy rivers, where a slight 

 deficiency of 4 per cent, below average occurred. 



In February a still more abnormal excess of rainfall was ex- 

 perienced over the whole of the southern half of the State, and all 

 northern areas between the ranges and the Murray east of the 

 Campaspe river, but in the north-western quarter of the State a 

 deficiency of 20 per cent, was recorded. 



Very little rain fell in the earlier part of March, and hardly any 

 in the latter part. The totals for this month show a general 

 deficiency of from 4(i to 7(> per cent. 



RAINFALL TABLE for the First Quarter of the year 1904, showing 



averaged amount of rainfall in eacn ot the 2(j Basins or Regions, 



constituting the State of Victoria, for each month and for the first 



quarter, together with corresponding monthly and quartet ly averages 

 for each Basin, deduced from all available records to date. 



