406 



REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



For a better opportunity to study the peculiarities of the season's 

 meteorology and its influence on vegetable growth and maturation, tiio 

 following tables from the Signal Service records are presented : 



AVEEAGB TEMPERATUPwE. 



Distriota. 



April. 



May. 



Jane. 



July. 



Angiist. 



Septeuiber. 



Now England ■>.. 



ilidcUo Atlantic States .. 



Sonth Atlantic States 



Horida Peninsula 



Eastern Golf States 



Western Golf States 



Eio Grande Valley 



Tennessee 



OMo Valley .-^,. 



Lower Laze region 



Upper Lake region 



Extreme North-west 



Upper Mississippi VaUey 



Missouri Valley 



Northern Slope.... _... 



Middle Slope 



Southern Slope 



Southern Plateau 



Middle Plateau 



Northern Plateau 



North Pacific Coastregion 

 Middle Pacific Coast re- 

 gion 



South Pacific Coast region 

 Motmt Washington, N. H. 

 Plke'e Peak, Colo 



43.4 

 49.9 

 61.2 



72.3 

 65.0 

 66.4 

 75.8 

 68.5 

 53.5 

 44.4 

 39.2 

 38.4 

 50.7 

 46.9 

 42.0 

 50.1 

 62.8 

 57.9 

 48.3 

 49.8 

 50.2 



57.0 

 61.5 

 20.9 

 12.0 



45.0 

 50.6 

 6L2 

 71.0 

 65.4 

 67.8 

 76.2 

 60.1 

 53.5 

 43.0 

 87.6 

 40.1 

 50.4 

 48.6 

 45.1 

 52.1 

 63.1 

 59.3 

 50.0 

 62.1 

 51.7 



59.9 

 64.3 

 23.0 

 15.8 



54.9 

 61.5 

 70.0 

 76.7 

 72.6 

 73.3 

 80.1 

 68.9 

 65.0 

 57.2 

 61.3 

 52.4 

 62.7 

 59.2 

 53.4 

 59.6 

 70.8 

 66.6 

 55.2 

 56.8 

 55.0 



59.2 

 66.8 

 33.5 

 21.9 



53.1 

 59.3 

 69.1 

 75.8 

 70.2 

 71.2 

 76.2 

 65.8 

 62.6 

 55.5 

 48.5 

 51.7 

 60.1 

 58.1 

 52.1 

 66.8 

 60. 4 

 60.1 

 55.8 

 58.4 

 57.0 



61.2 

 68.3 

 36.1 

 31.1 



64.3 

 70.7 

 76.9 

 80.8 

 78.7 

 80.1 

 84.2 

 75.9 

 73.2 

 67.0 

 61.5 

 62.6 

 71.0 

 69.8 

 62.3 

 70.0 

 77.9 

 75.3 

 65.9 

 65.0 

 60.6 



64.6 

 71.9 

 43.9 

 S2.7 



64.1 

 69.7 

 76.5 

 80.6 

 79.1 

 80.5 

 83.5 

 76.0 

 70.7 

 64.1 

 59.4 

 60.4 

 69.7 

 68.3 

 59.3 

 08. C 

 77.5 

 71.7 

 61.8 

 63.9 

 60.4 



62.1 

 70.1 

 46.2 

 29.8 



69.4 

 75.4 

 80.5 

 83.0 

 81.0 

 82.5 

 85.6 

 79.2 

 77.1 

 71.5 

 67.1 

 66.4 

 75.5 

 73.3 

 66.8 

 74.8 

 80.1 

 79.4 

 73.6 

 70.9 

 64.4 



66.8 

 75.9 



09.7 

 76.1 

 80.3 

 82.2 

 80.2 

 82.1 

 84.0 

 78.4 

 77.7 

 71.6 

 67.2 

 66.7 

 76.5 

 74.7 

 66.3 

 74.0 

 79.0 

 79.8 

 73.3 

 72.8 

 66.7 



07.2 

 77.0 



68.3 

 73.7 



78.4 

 81.8 

 79.2 

 81.0 

 83.1 

 76.8 

 74.8 

 70.4 

 66.4 

 66.0 

 73.6 

 72.6 

 67.2 

 72.7 

 76.9 

 75.4 

 72.0 

 70.3 

 64.1 



66.4 

 69.1 



66.2 

 7.3.4 

 79.0 

 81.9 

 78.9 

 80.9 

 83.1 

 70.9 

 72.6 

 65.5 

 61.3 

 00.7 

 69. C 

 67.8 

 63.7 

 71.2 

 77.7 

 76.6 

 72.2 

 71.3 

 64.3 



67.2 

 72.2 



62.1 

 68.0 

 74.4 

 79.6 

 75.0 

 76.1 

 80.6 

 70.2 

 67.3 

 63.4 

 59.0 

 54.8 

 64.6 

 02. 

 55.2 

 63.8 



'oi'i' 



62.2 

 59.0 



58.8 



67.5 

 67.1 



AVEEAGE RAINFALL. 



Grouping the more important agricultural districts of the South and 

 West, and comparing the record of 1885 with the average, the peculiar- 



