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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



No. 11 



General Results. 



Oct. 1st. 

 1836 1837 1S3S 1S3<J 

 No. oi clear dnys in thp. year 289 290 314 



15 

 36 



90° 

 50^ 

 33° 

 14=^ 



210 

 15 



48 



cloiidy 

 " of rainy " " " 

 Extreme iiotlest day " 

 " oolflest " " 



Greatest chaiiire in 1 month 

 Greatest change in 1 day 

 Number ol" rainy days in 



each rainy season, I'rom 



June Isi, 10 October 1st, 



each year 24 | 14 17 26 



That is, the number of days on which showers 

 fell ; because theie is never an entirely rainy day ; 

 and because the showers mostly fall by night. 



N. B. — [n the Hrst nine months of the present 

 year, it should be noted that itie showers have 

 been uncommonly numerous, and have occurred at 

 unusual times, H. Perrine, JNl. D. 



Indian Key, October 15th, 1839. 



To the Editor of tlie Farmers' Register. 



Indian Key, Trop. Ft. Oct. 15, 1839. 

 Sir — I gladly transmit to you an abstract of the 

 Meteorological Register kept at this islet during 

 the whole period of the Seminole war, by Charles 

 Howe, esq., P. M., and inspector of the Port. 

 These undisputable evidences of the usual wea- 

 ther in Tropical Florida ought to demonstate that, 

 in South Florida, military hostilities against the 

 savage Seminoles could have been continued 

 throughout the wliole summers as well as at all 

 other seasons of those years, from the first of Jan- 

 uary, 1836, to the first of October, 1839. You 

 know, that the highest official authorities of the 

 republic have adopted the deadly '-opinion," 

 that the territory of Florida is cursed with a 

 '•deadly climate ;" and that the most vital inter- 

 ests of the nation must continue to suffer from the 

 continuance of this " deadly opinion." As a phy- 

 sician, then, it has become my duty, 1st, to re-af- 

 firm boldly the positive fact that below 26°, South 

 Florida, with its peculiarly tropical atmosphere, 

 enjoys the most healthy climate in the United 

 States ; 2nd, to announce strongly the additional 

 fact, that South Florida, loilh its exclusively calca- 

 reous earth, possesses also the most healthy soil in 

 the United States ; and 3rd, to invite earnestly my 

 medical brethren to publish speedily every fact, 

 and every argument which can be brought or 

 which may be thouijht to show that either in cli- 

 mate or in soil. South Florida is not the healthiest 

 district of the union ! ! 



Very respectfully, 



Your ob'l. serv't. 

 Henry Perrine, M. D., &c. 



P. S. — The Meteorological Register, above. 

 will demonstrate to every intelligent physician, the 

 unrivctlled healthiness of the tropical climate of 

 Soutit Florida ; and to every compariUii observer, 

 the unrivalled delightfulness of its equable weather 

 at all seasons of the year ! H. P. 



CONTRASTED CLIMATES, OF SOUTHERN FLO- 

 RIDA AND OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. 



To tlie Editor of tlic Farmers' Register. 



Having noticed ill the ' Journal of tlie Ameri- 

 can Silk Society,' at page 152, a paragraph head- 

 ed ''Climate of Mississippi," which appears to 

 contain the genera! results of observations on the 

 weather made in Natchez, I sugtxested to one of 

 my children the expediency of makinif a similar 

 compend from the meteorological registers of In- 

 dian Key for the same years of 1837, 1838, kept 

 by Charles Howe, esq. Although 1 praciised 

 medicine myself in the neighborhood of Naiches, 

 from June 1824, to March 1826, the contrast be- 

 tween the two climates ofsouthi'.rn Mississippi 

 and southern Florida appears eo very exiraorili- 

 nary, even to me, that 1 tliiiik it merits to be pre- 

 sented to the public in general through the pages 

 of your Register, in the form of the parallel tallies 

 here subjoined. Respectfully, &c. 



H. Perrine. 



Indian Key, T. F. \st Oct. 1839. 



1837 Natchez, Miss. Indian Kev, T.F. 

 Clear days 95 - - - 290 

 Cloudy - 166 ... 35 

 Rainy - 93 - - - 40 

 Foggy - 4 



Hazy - 5 



Snowy - 2 



Coldest dav, at 



6 P. M. Jan., 28° At sunrise, Jan., 50° 

 Hottest dav, at 



6 A.M. Aug., 93| At 2 P. M. July, 90Q 



1838 Natchez, Miss. Indian Kev, T. F. 

 Clear days 43 - - - 314 

 Cloudy - 193 - - - 15 

 Rainy - 93 - - - 36 

 Foggy - 27 



Hazy - 5 



Snowy - 3 



Slep.ty - 1 



Coldest day at 



6 A. M. Feb., 18° At sunrise, Feb,. 50° 

 Hottest day at 



6 P. M. J une, 94° At 2 P. M. July, 90° 



NEW SPECIES AND NEW VARIETIES OF THE 

 ACTUAL STAPLES OF THE OLD SOUTHERN 

 STATES. 



To tlie Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



In my official letter to the Hon. Secretary of 

 Slate of the U. S. A. daled at Campeachy, 9lh 

 December, 1834, the following sentence was inci- 

 dentally introduced. " Were there liowever no 

 other motives for an acclimating nursery in Tropi- 

 cal Florida than the domestication of such species 

 and varieiies of rice, tobacco and cotton, as are 

 peculiarly valuable in peculiar soils, and ol'such as 

 will flourish in sites and seasons where and when 

 the actual species or varieiies would perish, such 

 an establishment should be encouraged on that ac- 

 count alone." The above extract is transmitted 

 for the efi'eciive consideraiion of the enlightened 

 planters of the south, because your pages contain 

 notices of two new species or two new varieties 



