ging begun ; apples poor, light crop ; tobacco cutting gen- 

 eral, good crop. 



Week ending September 16. — New England. Boston: 

 Weather seasonable ; copious showers, beneficial to fields 

 and pastures ; harvesting general ; corn good, excellent 

 quality ; apples poor, continue to drop ; potatoes light to 

 fair crop ; tobacco nearly cut, good crop ; fall feed good. 



Week ending September 23. — New England. Boston: 

 Weather, generally unfavorable for harvesting but favorable 

 for pastures and fall feed ; frosts in northern sections, little 

 damage; potatoes yielding better than expected, some com- 

 plaint of rot ; cranberries in good condition, fair yield ; 

 tobacco maturing under favorable conditions. 



The Weather of September, 1901. 



The weather of the month was uneventful, and, generally 

 speaking, characteristic of the season. The first decade of 

 the period was marked by fiiir weather, and mostly with 

 abundant sunshine. Showers fell in many sections on the 

 11th and 12th, and these were succeeded by several pleasant 

 days. A season of well-distributed showers prevailed from 

 the 16th to the 21st, during which the major portion of the 

 precipitation of the month occurred. Little rain fell during 

 the remainder of the month, and there was an entire absence 

 of rainfall from the 22d to the 28th inclusive. Owing to the 

 seasonal condition of the soil there was, however, little com- 

 plaint of the dry weather or unfavorable effects of the same 

 on crops, and the conditions were most favorable to harvest- 

 ing, to fall seeding, and out-door work. The temperature 

 during the month was almost uniformly high, ranging from 

 one to two degrees above the normal. The first cool weather 

 occurred on the 20th and 21st, when light to moderate Irosts 

 were noted, which were the first of the season. Frosts also 

 occurred on the 25th, but, with slight exceptions, they were 

 too light to greatly damage vegetation. In coast sections 

 and on high lands the frost was very light, and for the larger 

 portion of the territory of this description none occurred. 

 The winds of the month were mostly westerly, without 

 special features or destructive force. Viewing the month as 



