516 NEW JERSEY AGEICULTTJEAL COLLEGE 



The rainfall has been somewhat below the average during the grow- 

 ing season, due in large part to the very dry weather that prevailed 

 in April, and particularly through the month of May, when only 1.71 

 inches fell, as against the normal of nearly four inches. August andl 

 September were the only months which were above the average, the 

 former exceeding the normal by an inch and a half. As July was 

 near the normal, it is seen that the season was divided into a dry first 

 half and a second half that was somewhat above the average in pre- 

 cipitation. These conditions were unfavorable for all early crops, 

 but the later rains and the absence of frosts made amends for this in 

 the summer and autumn months. 



Among the seventeen years recorded in the table the growing season 

 of 1905 ranks eleventh for wetness, and therefore seventh for dryness, 

 and, taken as a whole, is very near the average for the whole group of 

 years named. 



In temperature the growing season of 1905 was, as a whole, quite 

 close to the normal, it being only one-tenth of one degree below the 

 average for the last seventeen years. It was above the average for 

 April and May — that is, during the dry period; exactly normal for 

 June and above for July, normal for August and a little below the 

 average for September. In warmth it ranks tenth among the seven- 

 teen years that the writer has been in charge of the department. 



The tables for sunshine are not so easily constructed as for rainfall 

 and temperature, but the estimates show the growing season was 

 somewhat brighter than the average. Its rank is seventh among the 

 past seventeen seasons. 



If dryness, warmth and clearness are considered, it is found that 

 the rank for each for the past season is seventh, tenth and seventh, 

 respectively. It is to be oljserved that the temperature of the seventh 

 and tenth in rank differ only in one-half of one degree, so that there 

 is essentially a close relationship between the dryness, warmth and 

 clearness of any season. Thus the season of greatest rainfall in the 

 whole seventeen, namely, 1889, is the darkest, but there were some 

 others that were somewhat colder. Thus the season of 1900 was, in 

 dryness, warmth and sunshine, second, first and third, respectively. 



When the facts concerning the fungous diseases, as reported by the 

 weather crop correspondents, are compared with those of previous 

 seasons and with the weather for the same period, it seems evident that 

 there is a close relationship between the two sets of phenomena. 



