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with 1889 (61.5 per cent.) In the latter year the six months were 

 below the average but the greatest lack was in July and Septem- 

 ber, which were the ones with heavy rainfall and low temperature. 

 August and September of 1895 are the first ones in the table 

 showing ninety per cent, of sunshine and these are both low in 

 rainfall — not a half of the average amount, and with a record for 

 high temperature. Nearer to the present time is the June of 1903, 

 which gave the low record of 53 per cent, for sunshine and along 

 with this it shows 7.68 inches of rain, over twice the average, and 

 a temperature of 640° or 5.4° below the normal. Here is a clear 

 case of a dark, rainy and cool month. The same thing is true of 

 August of the same year, which shows sunshine only 65 per cent., 

 rainfall 6.95 inches and temperature 68.4°, while May reverses 

 the order and with sunshine 14.7° above the average, rainfall only 

 0.59 inch and temperature nearly two degrees above the normal. 

 May was a bright dry, warm month, while the June, as shown 

 above, that followed it. was exceptionally dark, rainy and cool. 

 These contrasts that may come in adjoining months may bring a 

 medium average to a season that is full of weekly or monthly 

 extremes. In amount of sunshine the years 1898 and 1903 

 average the same {j2.'] per cent.) but in rainfalls were 25.16 and 

 28.04 inches respectively and in temperature 65.9° and 64.0°. 



These tables have been constructed with the h_ope of determin- 

 ing the relationship between weather and outbreaks of fungous 

 diseases, a subject which may be presented later when more 

 data are at hand. The season of 1904 has been close to the aver- 

 age in rainfall (7th) and sunshine (6th) but quite unusual in its 

 record for low temperature. The reports of crop correspondents 

 indicate that the injuries from rot, mildew, mold, etc., have been 

 much less than during the previous season that ranked fourth in 

 rainfall, first in coldness and fourth in darkness. It was a dark, 

 rainy and very cool season and furnished conditions favoring 

 the development of many kinds of fungous troubles. 



