242 Meteorological Journal at Beloit, Wis. 
he mean temperature of the past year is 479-895, being alittle 
above that of the year 1850, which was 479°200. 
The mean temperature of the winter months of 1850-51 is. 
27°-43; of the spring months of this year 46°-70—being 3°'62 
stitute—is found to be the true amount of correction necessary 
for the barometer then in use. aes 
The observations have been made, as last year, at the hours 
required by: the Smithsonian Institute, viz.: sunrise, 94 ™, 
average. This amount, as may be seen by the table, was not 
very equally distributed through the year—being for the month 
15-46 inches, and for the month of August 9°85, while for 
the month of March it was only -55 of an inch, and for the month 
of November 1°63 inches. 
The rains in the month of May occuring mostly in the latter 
part of the month, amounting in the last. day of the month to * 
inches, raised the Rock River to an unprecedented height, caus- 
ing a flood which did much damage, carrying off animals, br idges 
and dams. 
The amount of show which fell in the winter of 1850-51 was 
greater than in the winter previous, being nearly 15 inches, but 
was so equally distributed through the winter as to afford but little 
The past year is considered usually productive, though some 
ring was very back- 
thus became a good crop. The yield of grass was very © avy: 
wheat, especially the hedge-row, 
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