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sumed in the county where grown and 242,113,230 or 61.1 

 per cent was shipped out of the county where grown. The 

 average farm price of wheat for 18U3 was $0,538 per bushel 

 and the average weight per bushel was 57.6 pounds. The 

 condition of winter wheat on the first day of April, 1894, as 

 reported by the Statistician of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, averaged 86.7 per cent for the entire country'-, 

 against 77.4 in 1893 and 81. 2 in 1892. The corresponding 

 average for rye was 94.4 per cent. 



Meteorological Summary. 



Furnished by the New England Weather Service. 



January, 1894. 



The weather for the month of January in Massachusetts 

 was warm and dry. At Somerset the mean temperature was 

 4.3*^ per day higher than the normal ; at Springfield it was 

 3.9° ; at Fitchburg, 3.5« ; at Boston, 3.4« ; and at New Bed- 

 ford and Woods Holl, 1.8°. The highest temperature was 

 on the 24th and 25th, and varied from 47° to 57°. The lowest 

 was on the 13th and 29th, and was from 8° above zero on the 

 coast to 9° below zero in the interior counties. 



The precipitation was slightly more than the usual amount 

 at Lake Cochituate and Woods Holl, but was deficient in all 

 other districts. Most of the snow fell on the 27th and 30th, 

 so at the end of the month there was a good covering on the 

 ground, but during the greater part of the month it w'as 

 mostly bare. As there w'ere no extreme or severe ranges 

 of temperature during the time there was little damage to 

 fruit or grass and grain roots. 



February, 1894. 

 February was very cold, and decidedly the "winter" 

 month of the year. The precipitation was more than usual 

 along the coast and deficient in the interior, and was mostly 

 in the form of snow. The highest temperature occurred in 

 most places on the 18th, and was from 42° to 54°. It was 

 low on the 6th and 25th, while the 24th was the coldest day 

 of the month, and at many places the coldest for years. 

 Along the eastern coast the highest temperature for the day 

 on the 24th was only from 5° to 12° above zero, while in the 



