Special Telegeaphic Eeports. 



[Weather Bureau, Boston.] 



Week ending Au{/ust 3. — New England. Boston : Plenty 

 of rain and heat ; all crops growing extra fast ; very slight 

 damage by frost in north portion on the 1st ; damp weather 

 favorable for spread of potato blight, which is appearing in 

 south ; weather unfavorable for completing hay and grain 

 harvest, and some is getting over-ripe. 



Week ending August 10. — New England. Boston : Hot 

 and sultry, with rain enough to keep crops making unusually 

 rapid growth ; tobacco very large and forward, cutting 

 begun ; corn and second grass crops promise to be heavy ; 

 pastures green and good ; apples large crop and excellent 

 quality ; potato blight increasing. 



Week ending AiH/ust 17. — New England. Boston : First 

 of week very hot, last part cooler ; plenty of sunshine and 

 moderate rainfall, but unevenly distributed; crops growing 

 and maturing fast ; thrashing begun and grain yields well ; 

 cranberries sunburned badly ; apples very fine and large 

 crop. 



Week ending August 24. — New England. Boston : 

 Cooler, with light frost, but no damage ; rain generally suffi- 

 cient for surface needs and crops doing well, but subsoil and 

 water supplies need heavy rains ; some damage in Vermont 

 by hail on the 18th ; tobacco cutting being pushed, fine crop 

 and in excellent condition ; onion seed being cut, fair crop. 



Weather in Massachusetts for the Month of August. 



August has been a very favorable month, from an agri- 

 cultural point of view. It opened with plenty of heat, sun- 

 shine and moisture, and with all crops pushing ahead fast. 

 It was a little too wet and humid for potato vines, and they 

 blighted considerably in the south, while mildew appeared 

 on grapes and peas. Unusually hot and sultry weather con- 

 tinued over the second week of the mouth, and corn, tobacco 

 and such crops made a remarkably rapid growth. It was 

 too hot for cabbage, and cranberries were badly scalded. 

 Apples made a very rapid growth. 



