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Agi[icultui]al Experiment Spo^ 



BULLETIISr ISTO. 31. 



OCTOBER, 1888. 



Meteorological Summary for two months ending Sept. oOth, 1888. 



Highest temperature. 



Lowest temperature, 



IMean temperature, 



Total precipitation. 



Prevailing winds. 



No. of days on which cloudi- 

 ness averaged 8 or more on a 

 scale of 10, 



No. of days on which 0.01 of an 

 iuch or more of rain fell. 



The first frost of the season occuired Sept. 6, the first killing frost, 

 Sei^t. 7, thirteen days earlier than the average for this vicinity. 



The rainfall for the month of September has not been exceeded 

 by any month since September, 1882, when it amounted to 11.85 

 Inches. 



ON COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. 



The Legislature of 1888, at the suggestion of the State Board of 

 Agriculture, has enacted a new law entitled "An Act To Regulate 

 the Sale of Commercial Fertilizers," Chapter 296. This " Act," 

 which has been in operation since September 1st, 1888, assigns the 

 supervision of the sale of Commercial Fertilizers to the director of the 

 Massachusetts State agricultural experiment station at Amherst, 

 Mass. _ 



