350 
TABLE III.—Barbados sugar crop and rainfall of preceding year. 
| Above Above 
+) or (+) or 
elow below 
; (—) the ‘ (—) the 
Year. Rainfall. average Year. Rainfall.| average 
_ of crop of crop 
_ of fol- of fol- 
lowing lowing 
year. year. 
Inches. | Per cent. Inches. | Per cent. 
1855 seer eee 2 ote ee 77.31 | SIE el kone: See oe ees ee ee oS 59.19 + 2 
SG free em erect nae ote nena 73. 82 | breil SD eee ae See ee Ame eee 58.77 0 
ASO ieee eS een ees 69.93 | S20 | el BOO seas Sars ee eee ee ee 57.91 +10 
11GG)a%s Bes Tepes pas Sear oe cee 68. 84 athe BDO ae ee Se ee 54. 22 —5 
B65 ae 2 ae ae eae Pe ee 68. 64 SEACH he ot: SU oa oe, See re See eee 52.77 —9 
TES 5 0 Se oe eee ee aoe ae oe 67. 88 Oli (#1854225 2 a eee 50. 88 +1 
B48 Sere Sh eae N= epee oe 63. 77 == Littl fet bolts) Sea eee eR Rs A 48.52 —18 
SS ee cere aie eee Aieerm ene 60. 90 ari sce holst pe ee Sees ee ake oc 48. 49 Si! 
S(O Ro. ee a ee Cn Sey eae 60.17 cr e7 0) | Wal Rov: leer 0 a A ai ere 48. a —27 
S66 eae eee ah oe eee 59. 68 +14 | ABH See ec Sos eae rua eee 45.72 —12 
FL SEE ert Sa se eh ee 59. 40 By a} || (eel bol b ss] ee Nae EN ee eres = 44:60 —28 
S62 seek Sees done eo uee 59. 27 465) | 1868 S52 8 ee se ee eee 42.38 —19 
Notre.—In calculating the average crop and the respective annual excesses or deficits 
given in Tables I and III Governor Rawson says that ‘‘ he has made an arbitrary division 
of the whole period into two sections marked by the introduction of the use of guano 
as a fertilizer.”’ For the first section, 1847-1856, inclusive, he considers 38,795 hogsheads 
as the average, but for the second section, 1857-1872, inclusive, he takes 45,036 hogsheads 
as the average. He states that this is virtually assuming that during the whole period 
climatic and other conditions were nearly constant and that the principal difference was 
in the introduction of the use of guano and the great increase of crops was due to that. 
During the first interval an inch of rain corresponded to 642 hogsheads of sugar in the 
crop of the next year, but during the second interval it corresponded to 800 hogsheads. 
