Week ending June 6. — New England. Boston : Weather 

 favorable for crop growth, but unfavorable for farm work ; 

 grass very promising ; all vegetables doing well ; corn back- 

 ward ; tobacco transplanting well under way, prospect favor- 

 able ; all fruits setting exceptionally well ; strawberries 

 fruiting in south; ground too wet in some localities. 



Week ending June 13. — New England. Boston : Weather 

 generally unfavorable, being too cold ; ground in some local- 

 ities too wet ; grass and gi'ain making rank growth ; peas 

 ripe ; potatoes blooming in south ; much tobacco set, some 

 portions the whole crop ; fruit promises excellent ; cut 

 worms damaging some crops. 



Week ending June 20. — New England. Boston : Weather 

 favorable for planting and cultivating, but too cool for crop 

 gi'owth ; rain much needed in Maine ; grass and potatoes 

 very good ; grain fairly satisfactory ; worms greatly damag- 

 ing onions and cabbages ; other vegetables good ; all fruits 

 excellent, except apples blighting in Maine ; tobacco about 

 all set, outlook satisfactor3\ 



Week ending June 27. — New England. Boston : Weather 

 warmer, with abundant sunshine ; favomble for all crops ; 

 showers of 22d of much benefit, but more rain now much 

 needed ; haying begun, average crop of good quality prom- 

 ised ; potatoes excellent ; cranberries in Bristol and Plym- 

 outh counties, Mass., much damaged by hail on 22d; 

 strawberries excellent ; tobacco hoed and growing well. 



The Weather of June, 1904. 

 The weather of the month was marked by an abundance 

 of sunny days, and, except in scattered localities, a deficiency 

 in the rainfall. In a few sections violent local storms caused 

 heavy down-pours of rainfall, but over the major portion of 

 the State there was need of rain, and the soil was becoming 

 quite dry during the last halt of the month. General showers 

 on the 21st and 2 2d and on the 25th gave temporary' relief 

 to the droughty conditions, and general light rains on the 

 29th and 30th practically broke the drought. A con- 

 spicuous feature of the weather was the rather low tem- 

 perature during the days and uniformly and exceptionally 



