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at times ; white frosts i4th, i6th, iyth. Fine haymaking 

 weather i6th and i;th. A very catching time for the 

 hay after, yet there was a quantity made well. 26th. 

 Thunder. July was a wet cold month. Torrents of rain 

 on St. Swithin's Day. The meadow hay in our dairy 

 districts a heavy crop, but made badly. Hasty storms, 

 with thunder and hail, 24th. Turnips a good plant, and 

 doing well. August was fine till i2th, when there was 

 very vivid lightning in the even, but little rain. It had 

 been hot two or three days previous. Cut winter barley, 

 3rd ; and peas about same time, the latter a very poor 

 crop, having gone off prematurely ripe. Began reaping 

 wheat August 15. Finished carrying barley September 

 19. A very catching time for the wheat harvest, yet most 

 of it was put together in sound condition, although not 

 fit to thrash at once. 



A lunar rainbow seen at Bristol on September 2nd. 



Clover very high in the barley, which was broken down 

 by the wind on August 23 ; on the chalk hills it was the 

 thinnest sample and the worst crop grown for years, 

 except in 1879. A fortnight of fine weather set in 6th 

 September, during which time there were heavy dews and 

 some very white frosts in the valleys, but not a drop of 

 rain here, although thunderstorms went round us i2th 

 and 1 3th. Hail accompanied them on i2th. On igth, 

 rain came on soon after midday from the north-east, and 

 continued with little intermission till next morning, when 

 I registered -97 in. ; then a few fine days to clear up the 

 late harvest, after which it was showery again. 



Finished harvest September 26. 



October was excessively wet. i$th. Rain from the 

 east, and lasted till i7th; 1*26 in. registered on i6th. 

 On 24th. A terrible downpour of 1*40 in. fell before 9 

 a.m., causing the deepest flood known in memory of man 

 and doing considerable damage. November 17. Aurora 

 borealis and a meteor. 



