the quality 93 ; the average condition of pasture 86 ; the 

 average condition of apples (lo ; the average condition of 

 peaches 71 ; and the average condition of grapes 77. 



Temperature and Raixfall for the Whole Country. 



[From Weather-crop Bulletins of the United States Weather Bureau.] 



Week endiiui July 31. — Along the immediate south 

 Atlantic and Gulf coasts and over the greater part of Texas 

 the temperature of the week averaged nearly normal. The 

 week was warmer than usual over the middle Plateau and 

 north Pacific coast regions, except in north-western Wash- 

 ing-ton. In central and southern California, the southern 

 Plateau region, and in all northern and central districts 

 eastward of the Rocky ]Mountains, the temperature was 

 below the normal, the week averaging decidedly cool in the 

 central valleys and Lake region. The upper Mississippi and 

 central Ohio valleys, the southern portion of the Middle 

 Atlantic States, and portions of the South Atlantic and 

 Gulf States received less than the average rainfall during 

 the week. Over the northern portion of the Middle Atlantic 

 States, a large part of the Lake region, and from Arkansas 

 north-westward over south-western Missouri, eastern Kan- 

 sas, south-eastern Nebraska, and generally throughout the 

 eastern Rocky Mountain districts, the rainfall exceeded the 

 average. 



Week ending Awjust 7. — The week was warmer than 

 usual in the central valleys. Gulf States, Rio Grande valley, 

 and the northern Plateau and north Pacific coast regions. 

 Generally throughout the Lake region and Atlantic coast 

 districts, over the Middle Rocky Mountain slope, and in 

 California, Nevada and Utah, the temperature averaged 

 below the normal, the deficiency ranging from 3° to 6° per 

 day over portions of the Lake region. There was more than 

 the usual rainfall in most of the Lage region, in portions of 

 the Missouri, central ^Mississippi and Ohio valleys, over the 

 northern portion of the central and west Gulf States, along 

 the east Gulf coast, and in Florida. In the lower ^Missouri 

 valley and in Florida the total for the week ranged from 2 

 to 7 inches. In nearly all districts on the Atlantic coast 

 northward of Florida the rainfall was below the average, and 



