9 



Other Crops. 

 In Hampden and Templeton green cabbage worms are 

 injuring many pieces of cabbage. Templeton, very light 

 crop of pears, and grapes are dropping badly. Goshen and 

 Pelham, a good yield of wild grapes. Montague, quinces 

 abundant. Agawam, peaches have done nicely. Westford, 

 peach crop very profitable and some orchards remarkable. 

 Medfield, prices of butter better than last year ; milk scarce. 

 Dalton, silos gaining in favor, and more ensilage than Indian 

 corn grown. Rutland, ensilage very good and a large 

 amount grown. Wareham, weather very favorable for cran- 

 berry picking. 



Massachusetts Weather. 



Meteorological Data for September^ 1892. 



[Furnished by New England Weather Service.] 



Monroe, 



Springfield, 



Royalston,* 



Fitchburg,* 



Worcester, 



Dudley, 



Framingham 



Concord, 



I^ovvell, 



Boston, 



Taunton, 



New Bedf'd 



Hyanuis,* 



Provincet'n, 



Temperature. Dbg. F. 



55.3 

 62.6 

 59.1 

 58.5 

 62.0 

 60.4 

 60.4 

 58.6 

 61.5 

 62 5 

 61.0 

 60.4 

 65.4 

 62.6 



77 

 80 

 8i) 

 76 

 80 

 81 

 80 

 78 

 84 

 80 

 83 

 75 

 81 

 75 



25 

 19 

 25 



19,25 

 19 

 5 

 19 



5,19 



19 



19 



5 



5,28 

 25 

 28 



31 

 39 



42 

 41 

 42 

 42 

 34 

 36 

 36 

 46 

 33 

 35 

 44 

 44 



28 

 30 

 21 

 29 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 29,30 

 .30 

 11 

 30 

 21 

 21 

 21 



Precipita- 

 tion. 



2.66 

 1.89 

 1.50 

 1.75 

 1.74 

 2.58 

 2.59 

 2.80 

 1.97 

 1.90 

 2.87 

 3.54 

 2.06 

 2.21 



W. 

 S. W 



N.W. 



s. w 



N.W, 



s. w, 

 s. w, 



Cloudiness. 

 No. OF DATS. 



6 



12 



4 



4 



17 



18 



3 



11 



13 

 13 

 19 

 21 



7 



9 

 21 

 13 



18 



* Data from thermometer not self-registering. 



Summary. 

 Temi^erature (F.) . — Monthly mean, 60.7° ; highest mean, 

 65.4°, at Hyannis ; lowest mean, 55.3°, at Monroe; maxi- 

 mum, 84°, at Lowell, on the 19th; minimum, 31°, at Mon- 



