Remarhs. 

 In most of the western counties frequent and generally 

 sufficient showers have occurred during the month, and with 

 the high temperature and sunshine crops have made a good 

 growth and are forward. But very little rain has fallen 

 anywhere in the eastern part of the State, as will be seen 

 ])y the above table and sunmiary, and in places the drought 

 is assuming very serious aspects. The crop correspondent 

 at Woburn reports no rain at all duiing the month, and in 

 the greater part of the Sudbury Kiver valley the fall was 

 practically nothing. At Provincetowu there was no rain 

 from the 7th to 27th inclusive, except a trace on the 20th 

 and 21st, making the longest period without a measurable 

 quantity of rain in the past fourteen years. The maximum 

 temperature at Provincetowu was the highest ever recorded 

 in June. The spell of continued high day temperatures 

 was almost unprecedented in some eastern sections, but the 

 free radiation of heat at night, because of the general absence 

 of clouds, made the night temperatures moderately low, thus 

 lowering the daily mean temperatures and also the mean for 

 the month. Light frost occurred on the morning of the 14th 

 in the south-east, doing some damage to gardens and to cran- 

 berry bogs. 



