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Began harvest August i6th ; finished September 24th. 

 Corn harvested well, except the late barley, which was 

 slightly sprouted and stained. A good barley year ; all 

 of it malts well. Wheat very variable ; none of it yields 

 well. Hill wheats are bad quality, and much blighted, 

 some of it not much better than 1879 growth, neither is 

 there much more in quantity. The plant of all the early 

 sown was terribly thinned by the severe frost in the last 

 winter. The wheat in good land was very fair quality, 

 but only about twenty-eight bushels per acre ; on the 

 hills about sixteen bushels. Spring corn generally good. 

 Fine autumn. Winter set in early. Snow from two 

 inches to three inches deep on 2oth October. Again in 

 November drifting snow, then mild, with some rain to 

 December lyth, when snow again (T. H. B.). 



Under average crop of wheat. July temperature 2 

 below average, though not so cold as in 1879, but a 

 heavier fall of rain. August, o| below average, and rain- 

 fall, 0*25 in. below (Times). 



Rainfall for the first three months registered at Box- 

 ford, near Colchester, 2*120 (Byng). 



At Lowestoft, 2*571 in. {Miller). 



Rainfall at 



SALISBURY. BRIDPORT. BRISTOL. HARLOW. 



January ... '49 .. '45 .. '69 .. '23 



February . . 4*15 . . 4*18 . . 4*50 . 2'OO 



March ... 76 . . 1*33 . . 2*44 . . i p oi 



April ... 1-90 .. 1-97 .. 1-91 . . 2*13 



May .... -55 . . 1-13 . . 1-29 . . -53 



June .... 2-09 . . 1*32 .. . . 178 



July .... 403 . . 3-43 4-17 



August ... 1-59 .. 0*53 . . '53 . . -98 



September . . 3'57 4'O5 3 '93 4'54 



October . . . 5*16 . . 6-40 . . 5-90 .. 4*58 



November . . 2*57 . . 3*94 . . 3*09 . . 2*18 



December . . 3'68 . . 4*22 . . 5*17 . . 2*83 



Totals . . 30-54 . . 32-95 . . 29-45* 26 '9 6 

 * Ten months. 



