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Mr. B. H. Scott 



[May 4, 



a different method, and one wliich is comparatively free from the 

 objection just stated, as the observers who furnish the data are quite 

 independent of the office, and the forecast is tested by the weather 

 they themselves experience. 



Table I. — Forecasts at G p.m., appearing next Morning. 



These latter are the results of the Hay Harvest Forecasts, a system 

 which has been in operation for the past four years. Forecasts 

 drawn at 4 p.m. are sent daily for a month to a number of gentlemen, 

 largely interested in farming, in various parts of the country, on the 

 conditions that they disseminate the information in their immediate 

 neighbourhoods, and that they keep and send to us a careful com- 

 parison of the forecasts with the weather. The general average of 



