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October averaged warm, owing chiefly to warm days indi- 

 cated by an unusually high mean maximum. It was the dry- 

 est month of the vear, with onlv one half inch of rainfall 

 and five rainy days. 



November has some claim to be considered the wettest 

 month as it stands first in number of rainy days, and second 

 in total precipitation. It was as much colder than the aver- 

 age as October was warmer, contrary to expectations based 

 on difference in rainfall. The last week was unusually cold 

 for the season. 



December temperature was medium warm. No snow of 

 any amount came to stay till the last day of the month. 

 Upon the sixteenth all frost came out of the ground, and the 

 unseasonable spectacle was presented of numerous people 

 plowing upon December 17. 



January was a normal month in all respects. Three cold 

 spells were noted, but they were all, with possibly one excep- 

 tion, of a mild order. Sleighing was continuous through 

 this as well as the following month. 



February came in with a driving snowstorm, that came 

 near being a record breaker. Not even an engine passed this 

 railroad station for twenty-four hours, and on the second day 

 trains were one to three hours late. It was more the fury of 

 the wind than the amount of snow that caused the total stop- 

 page of traffic. The precipitation and temperature for the 

 month were medium. Only one sustained cold spell occurred 

 and this was not excessive. 



March was unseasonably warm with a small precipitation, 

 while opposite conditions prevailed in April, thus showing a 

 second time in one year unexpected monthly combinations 

 of high temperature with small precipitation and the reverse. 



May was a wet month mth fourteen rainy days. The old 

 saying, "A wet May for hay," proved a true prophecy. 



The precipitation for June was also abundant though not 

 excessive, and the making of a large hay crop was thus assured. 

 Other crops were backward on account of the wet spring, but 

 on the whole made a good growth. 



