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AUGUST, 1881. 



Meteorological Summary for the month, endmg July 31, 1887. 

 Highest temperature, 93.6° 



Lowest temperature, 50.0° 



Mean temperature, 73.71° 



Total precipitation, 8.93 inches. 



Prevailing winds. 

 No. of days on which cloudiness averaged 8 



or more on scale of 10, 

 No. of da3's on which 0.01 of an inch or more 



of water from rain or melted snow fell, 



South. 



11 



The mean temperature for this month (73.71°), is the highest of 

 the same month since 1839, when it was 74.40°; July, 18G3, it was 

 70.87° the nearest approach to it. 



Similar relations are true in regard to the total rainfall. — This 

 month fell 8.93 inches, the largest amount during any month of July 

 since 1839, when it was 9,56 inches ; in 1863 it was 8.63 inches, the 

 next hio-hest amount. 



FOOD AND FODDER ANALYSES. 



452—454. ANALYSES OF FINE SALT. 



I and II sent on from Florida 

 from Springfield, Mass. 



Moisture at 100° C, 



Sodium chloride. 



Calcium sulphate, 



Calcium chloride. 



Magnesium chloride. 



Matter insoluble in water (largely 



carbonates of lime and magnesia) , 0.035 



Salicylic acid, 0. 



0.028 

 0. 



0.052 

 trace 



100.000 100.000 100.000 



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