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Maximum and minimum of temperature for each month of the year at Bacolod, 

 Occidental Negros, deduced from the period 1903-1908. 



Monthly maxi- 

 mum. 



Month. 



January.— 

 February- 

 March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September. 

 October __. 

 November. 

 December . 



°C. 



Year. 



35.4 

 35.9 

 37.8 

 38.2 

 37.8 

 34.4 

 33.0 

 32.6 

 33.9 

 34.3 

 33.9 

 32.6 



1905 

 1905 

 1905 

 1905 

 1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1906 

 1904 

 1904 

 1904 

 1904 



Monthly mini- 

 mum. 



15.5 

 15.1 

 16.7 

 19.0 

 21.5 

 21.3 

 20.7 

 20.3 

 21.2 

 21.1 

 19.2 

 16.5 



Year. 



1906 

 1905 

 1905 

 1904 

 1908 

 1907 

 1906 

 1907 

 1903 

 1904 

 1906 

 1904 



Average of temperature for each month of the year at Bacolod, Occidental^ Negros, 

 deduced from the period 1903-1908. 



°C. 



January 26.0 



February 26.0 



March : 26.9 



April 27. 8 



May 28. 4 



June . 27.4 



°C. 



July 26. 6 



August 26. 



September 26. 7 



October - 26.8 



November 26.4 



December 26. 3 



During the milling season, from November to June, the northeast 

 monsoon blows quite steadily, with few storms and comparatively little 

 rain. Southwest winds prevail throughout the greater part of the rainy 

 season, and, as in other parts of the Islands, a considerable amount of 

 rough weather is experienced, but Negros is so well protected by adjacent 

 islands^ that veiy little damage is ever occasioned by storms. 



THE SUGAR BELT. 



The greater proportion of the sugar of Negros is produced in the so- 

 called sugar belt or coastal plain, which extends from the town of Victorias 

 in the north to the Hog Eiver in the south, a distance along the west coast 

 of approximately 130 kilometers. The width of this plain from moun- 

 tains to sea is from 5 to 30 kilometers; however, all of this land is 

 by no means suitable for growing cane. Much of it along the coast 

 is covered b}^ swamps, and the soil in the inland toward the mountains 



