332 NEW JERSEY AGRICULTUEAL COLLEGE 



Weather Notes for the Growing Season. 



•Upon page 329 is given the table of the rainfall during the 

 growing season, xlpril 1st to October 1st, for the whole State, for 

 the past twenty-one years. This season has been the dryest since 

 the century began, and since 1889 has been exceeded by only 1895, 

 1899, 1892 and 1891. In the last-named year, which was the 

 dryest, the shortage fell largely in August and September, and the 

 results to crops were not so disastrous as the past season, when 

 May, June and July were the dry months, during which the rain- 

 fall was only 7.68 inches as against the average of 12.69 for the 

 whole twenty-one years.- 



Upon page 330 is given a record of the temperatures of the 

 State by months, and it is seen; that while there is no wide range 

 here, as with rainfall, the season was a cool one and as a whole 

 ranks fifth, being exceeded by 1907, 1903, 1905 and 1902, and in 

 the order named. When each month is compared with its average 

 it is found that July, August and September were all nearly two 

 degrees below normal. May was also below, but April and June 

 a, trifle above the average. 



A table for the sunshine is given upon page 331 and it is noted 

 that the growing season just closed was second in the twenty-one 

 in darkness ; that is, it has next to the lowest place in brightness. 



The season was dry, cool and cloudy, all factors combining to 

 make a poor year for crop^growing. 



DiSTDASES OF PlANTS UPON BREEDING GrOUNDS AND EeSEWHERE. 



There was but a small amount of fungus troubles upon the home 

 grounds, and, judging from correspondence, there has been less 

 than usual throughout the State. Among beans there was some 

 pod spot, but no mildew was seen and spraying was not resorted 

 to as other matters were uppermost. Some corn smut was seen, 

 chiefly upon the early sorts. The eggplants suffered most of all 

 crops from the drought, some of the plants ceasing to grow and 

 their leaves turning yellow and dying. Among the tomatoes there 

 was some of the leaf blight, but the method of training to stakes. 



