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drought, scarcely any rain at all for seventy-one days. 

 The latter part of August very dry, and only half the 

 usual rainfall in September (Brumham). 

 1845 Wheat, 50^. icdl per qr. ; barley, 3 is. 8^/. j oats, 

 22S. 6d. (Official Returns). 



Value of .100 tithe rent charge, ^103 I'js. n\d. 

 (Official Returns). 



Seven years' averages : Wheat, 6o.f. 8</. ; barley, 

 32.?. lod. ; oats, 22$. (Official Returns}. 



Wool, i4j</. per Ib. (H. Baker). 



Off-going ewes made 31^. each (John Phillips). 



Off-going ewes made 325-. each (H. Baker). 



Began harvest August 16; finished September n 

 (H. Baker). 



Cows let at 9 per cow (If. Baker). 



Wet and cold season. First year of potato disease 

 (T. H. B). 



Severe frost set in January 27, and continued till 

 March 21, with some heavy snows. Coldest February 

 for 50 years. No such March on record. Warm April. 

 May, cold and gloomy. June, fine and bright. July, 

 showery and hot, with awful thunderstorms. August, 

 rainy, gloomy, and cold for the season. September, fine 

 for the harvest, unsettled at the end. October, very wet 

 to nth, then dry, with sunny sky to the end. Novem- 

 ber, fine, dry, and warm to i5th, then rain and wind. 

 December, wet, windy, and mild (Almanack). 



Very severe time, and great snows to March 21. On 

 March 14, thermometer, 5 (Whistlecraft). 



Rainfall at Greenwich, 18-69 in. January, 1-44 in. 

 February, 077 in. March, i - o6 in. April, 0*44 in. 

 May, 1*98 in. June, 1*69 in. July, 1*61 in. August, 

 2*48 in. September, 2 -i 8 in. October, 1-26 in. Novem- 

 ber, i '80. December, 1-98 (Glaisher). 



Very fine weather from August 21 to September 14 

 (Brumham). 



