632 THE FROST AND DROUGHT OF 1905. DOANE. 



The wettest year was 1896, with a rainfall of 60.862 inches 

 or 25 ner cent, greater than the mean for o7 vears (55.1)27 in, ) 



The driest year was 1894 — 45.808 inches or 82 per cent, 

 of the mean. 



The driest tAvo consecutive years Were 1879-80 — 47.835 and 

 52.853, an average of 50.344 inches, or 90 per cent, of the 

 mean. 



The driest three consecutive years were 1879-80-81, with 

 an average of 50.814 or 91 per cent, of the mean. 



The driest twelve months — Is^ovemher 1st, 1904, to 

 November 1st, 1905, 41,685 inches, or 74.5 per cent, of the 

 mean. 



The driest twenty-four months, December 1st, 1903, to 

 December 1st, 1905, an average of 50,060, or practically the 

 same as for two calendar years. 



The following table gives the maximum, minimum and 

 normal rainfall for each month and for the whole year for 

 thirty-seven years, together with the rainfall during 1905 and 

 the departures from the normal : — 



