all crops made good growth ; (.'orn much improved and near 

 average ; potatoes and tomatoes excellent, other vegetables 

 good, except onions ; apples set full and growing rapidh% 

 but dropping in some sections ; pears and plums below aver- 

 age and dropping; other fruits and all l)erries very good; 

 tobacco good and growing well. 



W^eA' endiiKj July 18. — New England. Boston : Weather 

 favorable lor crop growth and fairly good for hay harvesting ; 

 rain needed in Elaine and Vermont and would be beneficial 

 in all sections ; potatoes and other vegetables and grain good 

 crops; apples dropping badly, but promise good cro^) ; all 

 berries fairly good, other fruits uneven ; tobacco satisfactory, 

 some has received last hoeing. 



Wet'l' eitdinr/ July 25. — New England. Boston : AVeather 

 verv favorable for harvesting and fairly good for growing 

 crops ; rain needed in north ; potatoes promise large yield, 

 other vegetables very good except onions, which arc much 

 below average ; corn very promising, but suffering for 

 moisture in some northern sections ; rye and oats good and 

 being harvested ; apples good crop, though some dropping; 

 berries plentiful : other fruit uneven ; tobacco excellent, 

 being topped. 



Weatiip:!; of Jily, 1904, 

 I'he weather of the month was notable for conditions near 

 the seasonal in the several elements of precipitation, tem- 

 perature and sunshine. The preci})itation, while consider- 

 ably below the normal, was so well distributed through the 

 period and over the territory that the deficiency was hardlj^ 

 noticeable and not sufficient to retard crops. The showery 

 periods were interspersed with several days of sunshine, 

 which afforded excellent conditions for hay making. Gen- 

 erally speaking, thunderstorms were less frequent than usual 

 for July, although in some sections they were unusually 

 violent, being attended by heavy squalls and hail, with 

 vivid lightning which in a good number of instances resulted 

 in loss of life, shocks and injury to numerous persons, fires 

 in buildings and loss of stock. The temperature was rather 

 remarkable for e([uable distribution and a unifoi-nily high 

 range of the maxima and the minima, with an absence of 



