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Seven years' average : Wheat, 55^. iod.; barley, 32*. 

 M. ; oats, 235. $d. (Official Returns). 



Wool, is. per Ib. (H. Baker}. 



Off-going ewes made 29^. (/. Phillips). 



Began harvest August 19; finished September 13 

 (H. Baker). 



Wet and late season (Driver). 



Cold and rainy summer and autumn, which continued 

 wet from July to Christmas {A. M. E.). 



Under average. Wet and cold in July and August 

 (Times. 



January, severe weather, much snow. i6th. Thaw 

 and great floods. Twenty-eight cottages were swept 

 away at Shrewton, 7 at Maddington, 13 at Orcheston, 

 9 at Tilshead, and 16 at Winterborne Stoke (Easton.) 



February, severe frost and piercing gales. March, 

 warm and fine. April, warm and showery. May, fine 

 and hot. June, cold northerly winds till iyth. Ice in 

 ponds 1 6th. The last ten days squally. July, remark- 

 ably wet and cold, rain in torrents. August, showery to 

 1 5th, then fine. September began fine ; some fine days, 

 but much stormy weather. October, extremely wet. 

 November, fine to i2th. Heavy rain end of month. 

 December, winterly (Almanack}. 



Rainfall at Petworth, 33-846 in. (H. Socket f). 



Great snows and frost in January and February. On 

 January 9, thermometer 4 ( Whistlecraff). 



Severe winter till February n (Brnmhani). 



August 15. Eight weeks' rain. Prayer read for fine 

 weather on 8th and i5th. 26th. Weather improved. 

 This is the first fine day that gives hope of the harvest 

 being got in well ( W. Goldney). 



Continued rain the last ten weeks of the year ( W. 

 Goldney. 



Rainfall at Greenwich, 28*57 in. January, 2'io in. 

 February, 077 in. March, o'6i in. April, 1-64 in. 



