METEOROLOGY ; IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN ; SALES OF 

 BRITISH WHEAT ; PRICES OF CORN AND OTHER 

 PRODUCE; AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS; AND STA- 

 TISTICS OF DAIRY PRODUCE. 



[Tlie fads are derived chiefly from the Meteorological Ee2)orts of Mr. 

 Glaisher, and the Returns of the Board of Trade, and of the Inspector- 

 General OF Imports and Exports.] 



METEOROLOGY.— 1873. 



First Quarter (January, February, March). — The warm period which 

 set in on the 9th December, 1872, continued till 19th January; and 

 for the period 1st to 19th January, the mean excess of daily tem- 

 perature was 10'^. After a few days of average temperature, a cold 

 period began on 2oth January and continued throughout February, 

 the average daily deficiency being 4°. This was succeeded by a 

 week of warm weather ; a fortnight of cold weather followed, and 

 the quarter closed wdth a week of warm weather. The mean tem- 

 perature for the quarter was 39^-4, or 0^*8 above the average of 102 

 years. It was 42^*1 in January, or 5'*8 above the average ; 34*°-3 in 

 February, or 4°-3 lower than the average ; and 41^-9 in March, or 

 0°-9 higher than the average. A decline of several degrees in tem- 

 perature from January to February is rare; and, except in 1853, 

 the decline this year was greater than any that had occurred during 

 a period of more than 100 years. The rainfall in the quarter, at 

 Greenwich, amounted to 5*7 inches, or 0-2 in. above the average of 

 58 years. There was an excess of 0-6 in. in January, and of 0*3 in. 

 in February ; while in March there was a deficiency of 0*4 in. 



Hardy Pear was in hlossom on the 8th of March at Helston. 



Peach was in hlossom on the 25th of February at Helston ; on the 

 25th of March at Oxford ; on the 26th at Wisbeach ; and on the 28th 

 at Lymington. 



Plum icas in hlossom on the 27th of March at Strathfield Tui-giss ; 

 on the 28th at Oxford and Lymington ; and on the 30th at Silloth. 



The Daffodil and Ped Flowering Currant icere in hlossom on the 4th 

 of March at Brighton. 



The Swalloio arrived at Guernsey on the 28th of March, and at 

 Taunton on the 31st. 



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