CLIMATE. 377 



Send for the reprint from the Yearbook of the Department 

 of Agriculture, entitled "The Weather Bureau and the Public 

 Schools." 



This circular will give you a course of study of this branch 

 of nature study for the first seven grades. 



The Farmer and the Weather Bureau. 



Every up-to-date farmer ought to have a table of the me- 

 teorological and phrenological data of his own county. 



The data should be arranged and kept where it is handy for 

 references. 



The following outline will present a plan for such an 

 arrangement : 



1. State 



2. County 



3. County Seat 



4. North longitude 



5 . West longitude 



6. Topography of the county. 



7. Average above level of nearest large lake. 



8. Average level above the sea. 



9. Description of the variety and variableness of the soils. 



10. What variation can be found in certain localities within a 

 radius of 100 rds? A radius of one mile? 



11. Mean monthly and annual temperature for the last one or two 

 decades. 



12. Warmest month with its mean temperature. 



13. Coldest month with its mean temperature. 



14. Warmest year in last decade or in last two decades. Mean 

 temperature. 



15. Coldest year in last decade or in last two decades. Mean 

 temperature. 



16. Highest monthly mean. 



17. Lowest monthly mean. 



18. Coldest winter. Mean temperature. 



19. Warmest summer and mean temperature. 



20. Year of lowest mean temperature. 



21. Year of highest mean temperature. 



22. Highest temperature recorded. 



23. Lowest temperature recorded. 



24. Greatest number of days between frosts. 



25. Average date of last frosts in spring. 



