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truck backward, especially melons, cucumbers and tomatoes ; 

 3'ield of winter apples will be small, quality excellent, espe- 

 ciall}' Baldwins ; tobacco making fair growth, cutting begun, 

 needs sunshine. 



Week ending August 24. — New England. Boston : 

 Week generally favorable ; some grain lodged ; apples blown 

 otf ; gaitlen vegetables made good growth, but are backward ; 

 small yield of vine crops expected ; potatoes generally in 

 good condition, some scattered blight and rot, especially in 

 Connecticut ; corn crop small ; hay average crop, much to 

 be cut ; rye, barley and oats giving excellent yields ; cran- 

 berry harvest begun, yield below average, quality excellent ; 

 tobacco uneven, cutting begun. 



Weather of August, 1903. 

 The weather of the first three days of the. month was 

 generally clear and favorable for farm work, although the 

 temperature was somewhat cool ; then followed nearly a 

 w^eek of cloudy, rainy weather, extending from the 4th to 

 the 9th inclusive. The rainfall Avas well distributed and 

 quite heavy, 1 inch or more falling in nearly all parts of the 

 State. The temperature continued low, both during the 

 days and nights, probably breaking dj\Y previous record of 

 low average temperature for the week ending August 10. 

 At Boston the average temperature for the week was only 

 60°, which was 7° lower than the lowest previouslj^ re- 

 corded for this period, and 12° below the average of this 

 period for thirtj^ years, which is 72°. After the 9th fair 

 weather prevailed for nearly a week, with more than the 

 average amount of sunshine. The temperature also ranged 

 somewhat higher, although continuing below the normal for 

 the season, Avith cool nights. With the exception of light 

 local showers on the 16th and 17th, generally clear weather 

 prevailed from the 10th to the 19th. Local showers again 

 occurred on the 20th, and were general with copious rainfall 

 on the 2ath. After the 19th there was more cloudiness 

 with deficiency of sunshine, which conditions continued 

 through the greater portion of the remainder of the month. 

 The temperature ranged higher from the 19th to the 23d 



