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crop, aud ready for cutting about the 26th. Wild Rose flowered 

 on 7th ; Meadow Brown Butterfly seen on 29th. 



July. 



Rainfall, 1-5 inches. Barometer, lowest 29-8 to highest 30-35. 

 Very warm during the month. The lowest night temperature 

 Avas 40 deg. ; the 9 a.m. temperature would have a mean of 

 between 70 and 80 deg. There was a good deal of thunder. 

 Grass and other crops made satisfactory progress, and except on 

 gravelly soils there was not a great deal of harm done by the 

 dry warm weather. The Harebell came into bloom on 7th; Black 

 Knapweed on the 15th. 



August. 



Rainfall, 4*1 inches. Barometer varied from 29-45 to 30-6 

 inches. This was a fine warm month, with high night and day 

 temperature. Harvesting commenced on the 1st. Corn crops 

 not so heavy as last year ; but having got much more sun the 

 straw and g-rain are of excellent quality, and most of the crop 

 standing. 



September. 



Rainfall, 2'8 inches. Barometer, lowest 29-5 to highest 30-3 

 inches. I think I may say with confidence that this has been an 

 ideal summer in every sense. Although Qeeen Wasps were very 

 numerous in the beginning of May, scarcely a wasp was to be 

 seen till well on to the end of the summer, when they became 

 very plentiful and were very destructive to the fruit crop. 



October. 



Rainfall, 4*6 inches. Barometer, lowest 29*15 to highest 30'5 

 inches. There w^as a trace of frost on three nights, with a fairly 

 high day temperature. Rain fell less or more on every day but 

 the last, which hindered potato digging. The fine dry growing 

 summer and autumn was favourable to the growth of this crop, 

 the shaws remaining green till the beginning of September. 

 The disease did not come on before the tubers were at maturity, 

 and a large crop of fine quality is the result. 



November. 

 Rainfall, 2-82 inches. Barometer, lowest 29-3 to highest 30'6 



