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made well before I2th; then rain and close weather till 

 23rd. End of month fine. Began harvest August 5th ; 

 finished August 3ist (T. H. J3.). 



Wheat, 29 J bushels per acre; barley, 32 bushels 

 (T. H. J3.}. 



January. Very mild. Frosts 22nd to 25th. Rough 

 storms end of month. February. Mild, but some 

 quantity of rain. March set in wet, but began oat sowing 

 5th and finished loth. Began barley sowing i2th. Fine 

 month ; cold easterly wind at times. April was quite a 

 summer month. Turned dairy to grass 23rd. May was 

 cold and wet, and the latter end rain from the east, and 

 colder than it has been this year before. Pastures full of 

 grass. Field grass light. Wheat backward. July was 

 fine and hot ; extraordinary crop of meadow hay made 

 well. Some showers the last week, which the turnips 

 wanted. August 3. A regular soaking rain. Made a 

 wheat-rick 1 2th. i3th. Wet day. 1 6th. Went on wheat 

 carrying, and no more rain till harvest was all in. Very 

 hot the last week, thermometer, 131. 29th. A change 

 to cold north-east wind, which continued till end of 

 month. Turnips want rain. September fine till loth, 

 then hasty storms and unsettled till October 3rd, when it 

 was fine till i5th, and sometimes quite hot. Then un- 

 settled to i Qth and 20th; hard frost, then cold to end of 

 month. 28th. Snow an inch thick. November was a 

 fine month, with some rain and slight frosts. Wheat went 

 in well. December was cold. Heavy rain and severe 

 frost alternately (T. H. B.}. 



Under average. Inferior plant of wheat. Heat 

 neutralised by excessive cloud. The crops storm-broken 

 and mildewed (Times). 



Sold lambs at 24^. Let cows at ;ii per cow. 

 Turnips good (T. H. .#.). 



July and August, 0*4 below average temperature 

 (Times) 



