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Week ending September' 16. — The week averaged warmer 

 than usual over the greater part of the middle Pacific coast 

 region, the south-eastern Rocky Mountain slope, West Gulf 

 States, and generally in the districts to the east of the Mis- 

 sissippi River. From the Missouri and upper Mississippi 

 valleys westward to the Pacific coast the week averaged 

 cooler than usual. Very heavy rains fell during the week in 

 the west Gulf States and generally throughout the central 

 valleys and the Lake region, including the northern portion 

 of the middle Atlantic States and New England. Along the 

 Atlantic coast and over portions of the east Gulf States there 

 was less than the average rainfall. 



Week ending September 23. — The week was abnormally 

 cool to the eastward of the Rocky Mountains, except in the 

 immediate Atlantic coast districts. The week was also 

 ■cooler than usual along the California coast and over portions 

 of the central Plateau regions. On the north Pacific coast 

 ^and in southern California the week averaged slightly warmer 

 than usual. The weekly rainfall in the Gulf States, Ten- 

 nessee, Carolinas, southern Virginia, and at some stations 

 along; the middle Atlantic and New Enorhind coasts exceeded 

 the average. There was also more than the usual rainfall 

 over portions of the central Missouri valley. In the west 

 Gulf States, Ohio, the upper Missouri valleys, over the 

 greater part of the Lake region and middle Atlantic States 

 and in Florida the weekly rainfall was less than the average. 



Special Telegraphic Reports. 



[Weather Bureau, Boston.] 



Week ending September ^. ^-New England. Boston: 

 Weather favorable ; corn excellent, field corn being shocked, 

 canning sweet corn commenced ; potatoes in Aroostook 

 County, Me., good, elsewhere light; second crop of grass 

 iheavy and well secured ; peaches rotting badly in Connecti- 

 cut ; tobacco excellent, cutting commenced 



Week ending September 9. — New England. Boston : 

 Weather favorable for harvesting ; heavy crop rowen ; Hun- 

 garian grass secured in excellent condition ; corn excellent, 

 cutting, canning and filling silos general ; potatoes light, dig- 



