72 WEATHER NOTES AT JARDINGTON IN 1907. 
was the number of days on which 1-100th of an inch and over 
fell). The maximum temperature was 67 degrees on two days; 
minimum, 32 degrees on the 30th. Barometer—Highest, 30.3 
inches ; lowest, 29.65 inches. Grass was very abundant. Apples 
and pears were a light crop, and small in size. Wasps were very 
scarce, owing to the cold and wet summer. Almost no meadow 
hay was secured during the month, and almost none in good con- 
dition. Hay-making is quite a pleasure in fine weather, but 
with such persistent showers and sunless weather as prevailed in 
this month, it became trying and annoying, and occasioned a 
great deal of extra labour. 
September.—Rainfall, 0.65 inches—fell on 7 days. Baro- 
meter—Highest, 30.5 degrees; lowest, 26 degrees. Highest 
temperature, 76 degrees on the 11th and 12th; the lowest on the © 
night of the 4th. The thermometer in the screen registered 27 
degrees; the exposed thermometer 24 degrees. Potatoes were 
frozen black, and all other plants of that class were frozen. On 
the 5th and 6th, after the frost, the swallows gathered into flocks, 
and numbers came into the out-houses at night. On the after- 
noon of the 13th I saw a very large flock. All the telegraph 
wires on the Glasgow roadside above Newbridge were covered 
with them for a considerable distance. No doubt they would 
take their flight that evening to a summer clime. I did not see 
one at Jardington from that date till the 23rd. After that, we 
had them again until the Ist of October. Began to cut corn on 
the 9th, which was 58 days from the date of ragging, the average — 
being about 59. Corn that was cut in the beginning of the month — 
was secured in fairly good condition. This was the driest month 
of the year. There was a lot of sunshine, but no good drying 
winds. There was a lot of mist and fog, and corn dried very 
slowly. 
October.—Rainfall, 7.13 inches—fell on 29 days. The 
average fall for this month for the last 14 years was 3.76 inches. 
This was the wettest month of the year. Temperature—Highest, — 
64 degrees ; lowest, 30 degrees ; lowest on the grass, 26 degrees. 
The last swallow was seen on the Ist. This was a cold, wet 
month. Almost no corn was got in, and it was much spoiled by — 
standing in the stook so long, being quite black, and in some 
cases growing green (sprouting). When the weather would allow, 
farmers lifted potatoes, which (in late varieties) were small, owing 
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