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Bdhvuc, Nebraska. — This month hatj been the warmest for many year.s, and 

 the Missouri has been unusually high. 



Colorado City, Colorado Territory. — July 31. — Ground very wet, sufficiently 

 so to last small grain till harvested. 



Helena City, Montana Territory. — July 13. — At 4 p. m. a thunder-storm 

 came up in the south west, and for a few minutes hail stones a quarter of an 

 inch in diameter fell most profusely. 



Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. — July 31. — The prospect for an 

 abundance of everything in the line of agriculture was never more apparent. 

 The timely rains, which are something new to this region, give new life to the 

 desert. 



AUGUST, 1866. 



Gardiner, Maine. — This month has been remarkable for its low temperature, 

 being 4.01° less than the average of thirty years, and half a degree colder than 

 any on record. The coldest August previously was that of 1837, the mean tem- 

 perature of which was 63.43"^. The extreme heat (76°) is much less than 

 that of any other year. The amount of rain was 1.6 inch more than the av- 

 erage of the month. 



Cornish, Maine. — The mean temperature of the month was three-tenths of a 

 degree higher than the average for the last thirty-five years. 



West Watervillc, Maine. — More rain has fallen this mouth than in any other 

 August for six years, and the mean temperature has been lovrer. 



bitratford, New Hampshire. — August has been, cold, cloudy, and wet. On 

 the morning of the 17th there was a little frost in low places, but no damage 

 v.^as done. 



Claremont, Neiv Hartipsliire. — Crops are tAvo weeks later than last year at 

 this time. 



Craftshury, Vermont. — This month has been the coldest August since obser- 

 vations have been taken at this placi.'. The mean temperature for the last 

 tv/elve years was 62.82°, and in no year during that time lower than 61°. 



Riclimond, MassacJiusetts . — August has been an unusually cool month, with 

 much lowering weather. Slight frosts are said to have been seen in low lands 

 on the mornings of the 24th and 25th. 



Tomfret, Connecticut. — There Avere no hot days in August ; the month seemed 

 to be cold, yet the average temperature Avas equal to the mean of years. 



South Hartford, Neiv York. — The mean temperature of August AA^as about 

 3-4 degrees below that of previous years. On the morning of the 17th a very 

 slight frost Avas noticed in a Ioav SAvampy exposure. 



Depauville, New York. — This has been an unusually Avet, cloudy, and cool 

 August. There Avas hardly a day Avhen it did not rain or a storm was not pass- 

 ing in sight. Two or three mornings the thermometer fell to 46° at sunrise, 

 but there has been no frost. 



North Hammond, New York — August has been uncommonly Avet, rain haA'- 

 ing fallen on nineteen days out of thirty-one. The ground is too Avet to moA^e 

 about on ; a great amount of harvesting remains undone. 



Nichols, New York. — This has been decidedly the coldest and Avettest Au- 

 gust in a number of years. On a number of mornings the mercury has been be- 

 low 44° at five o'clock. On the 17th at 5.15 a. m. it was as low as 37°and the 

 tops of all fences and boards Avere perfectly Avhite with frost, but no damage 

 Avas done. There.Avas a frost earlier in the month that shoAved on a feAv garden 

 vines. 



Little Genesee, New York. — August 31. — There has not been a good day 

 during the mouth to ripen corn, the most forward is scarcely fit to boil for green. 

 There has been no frost just here, but iimsome towns in this (Allegany county) 



