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Seven years' average : Wheat, 48*. ; barley, 305-. 4</. ; 

 oats, 2os. zd. (Official Returns). 



Wool, is//, per Ib. (H. Baker]. 



Off-going ewes made $os. and 255. (H. B. and J. P.). 



Began harvest August 18 ; finished September 18 

 (T. H. B.). 



Average wheat crop. Scanty rainfall. Some mildew 

 and sprouting (Times). 



Heaviest crop of wheat for many years. Fine harvest, 

 but not an early one ( T. H. Baker). 



Oats and barley good (T. H. B.). 



January 4. Deep snow; roads impassable. 7th. 

 Heavy rain, melted all r the snow which has been lying on 

 the ground since December 27. Mild with some ram, 

 and occasionally slight frosts through remainder of Janu- 

 ary and February. March and April dry in general. 

 April 20. Very wet. 25th. Sharp frost. May, June, 

 and July below average temperature. Heavy thunder- 

 storms in May, and some hasty showers in June, but a 

 light crop of hay was put together tolerably well. Meadow 

 hay not finished making till August. August a good 

 harvest month. September began with very hot sunny 

 weather. Good harvest month, but some showers. 

 October. General thanksgiving for the abundant harvest. 

 One of the finest autumns for wheat sowing in the memory 

 of man ( T. H. Baker). 

 1854-55. Excessively severe winter (Brumham). 



July and August, 0-9 below average temperature 

 (Times). 



Rainfall at Greenwich, 18-35 m - January, 1-67 in. 

 February, 1*03 in. March, 0-36 in. April, 0-56 in. 

 May, 3*27 in. June, 0-97 in. July, r66 in. August, 

 2-95 in. September, 070 in. October, 2-69 in. No- 

 vember, 1*41 in. December, I'oSin. (Glaisher). 



Severe frosts and snow, 1853-4, till January 4 

 (Brumham). 



