204 FIRST APPEARANCES OF BIRDS, INSECTS, ETC. 

 GENERAL REMARKS. 



E.R.S. NOTES. 12th January, 1913, a remarkably mild 

 winter so far ; a cruel spring, fine for farming and gardening 

 though. 22nd March, 1913, a great gale from the S.W. The 

 early part of March marked by very variable weather, gales 

 from S.W., hail, rain, snow a little (about March 22nd at night) 

 and also a little thunder and much sheet lightning. March 

 29th, sunny, mild, and fine. 29th April, heavy thunderstorm 

 and rain over South of England. 



After a cold wet spring, by the middle of May fine weather 

 set in and resulted in a beautiful, dry, warm, fine, summer, 

 which was quite hot in July and August, and I never remember 

 the pastures more burnt up at the time. The hay and corn 

 harvests were good, the hay harvest especially, but the turnips 

 and roots generally failed, the turnips especially. Grass was 

 never greener or more abundant in October, after the rain of 

 September. Altogether it was a good year for farmers, and 

 all farm stock kept up its prices. 



There was a good deal of thunder and heavy rain storms in 

 the latter part of September and the beginning of October. 

 We have had a few frosts lately, before and on Christmas 

 Day. The winter of 1913, to 23rd December, 1913, has been 

 mild and dry. Sharp frosts and snow 29th December. We 

 have had wet days, but as a rule the summer, autumn, and 

 winter up to the end of 1913 have been hot, fine, and generally 

 dry. A beautiful year for farmers all round, and our farmers 

 are doing well and making money, although not one I ever 

 heard will confess this to me. 



This has been a good flowering or fruit year generally about 

 here. Mangolds were a good crop in West Dorset, the late 

 rain saved them. The year 1913 ended the last four days with 

 bright, fine, seasonable weather, and ironbound in frost and 

 snow on the ground. 



J. R. NOTES. 



Average barometric reading . . . . 29'66 



Highest monthly average (Dec.) . . . . 29 '89 



