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Seven years' average : Wheat, 56*. lod. ; barley, 335. ; 

 oats, 225. 2d. {Official Returns). 



Wool, gd. per Ib. (H. Baker]. 



Off-going ewes made 275. 6d. each (John Phillips). 



Off-going ewes made 35^. (Zf. Baker). 



Cows let at 9 IQS. per cow (H. Baker). 



Began harvest August 2nd; finished September 4th 

 (H. Baker). 



There was promise of a fair average wheat crop, but 

 the latter half of August was wet, and the harvest defi- 

 cient. Oats were a poor crop, and barley various (Clarke). 



July and August, 1*3 below average temperature. 

 Great scarcity. Average price of wheat in May, 1025. $d. 

 per qr. At one time the price exceeded 120^., but it 

 rapidly receded to under 6o.r. Cold summer. Much 

 thunder. Wet wheat harvest, much of it badly sprouted 

 (T. H. B.). 



September was chiefly fine till the equinox (Brumhaui). 



January, cold and frosty ; February, mild and wet ; 

 March, wet ; April, wet ; May, bright, with east winds j 

 June, showery ; July, fair and hot ; August, very wet ; 

 September, fine ; October, great floods ; November, fine ; 

 December, mild (Almanack). 



October 18. Snow (Miss Ormerod). 



Some fine and hot periods in the first fortnight in July, 

 and the first twenty-two days of September. The re- 

 mainder of the season was wet, with much thunder 

 ( Whistlecrafi). 



Rainfall at Greenwich, 30*07 in. January, 0-96 in. 

 February, 2-47 in. March, 3-00 in. April, 3-15 in. 

 May, 0*22 in. June, 3*92 in. July, 2*08 in. August, 

 4-59 in. September, 2-44 in. October, 3-45 in. No- 

 vember, 1-37 in. December, 2-42 in. (Glaisher). 



Wet winter and spring until middle of April, then a 

 parching drought to June i2th. Wet summer and 

 autumn after until Christmas (Cox). 



