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XEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



We deem it advisable, in this connection, to reproduce the 

 records of the local weather Imrcan, kindly placed at our disposal 

 by the authorities. 



Climatological data at Athens 191 1 



MONTH 



DAY 



TEMPERATURES 









PRECPT. 



CHAR.\CTER OF DAY 







Max. 



Min. 







November 



26 



40 



28 



.04 



Cloudy 





27 



47 



28 





Clear 





28 



56 



36 



■"'t 



Cloudy 





29 



53 



33 





Cloudy 





30 



38 



23 





Clear 



December 



I 



44 



29 





Clear 





2 



40 



30 



"t 



Cloudy 





3 



40 



26 





Cloudy 





4 



34 



18 



' "t 



Clear 





5 



28 



12 





Cloudy 





6 



43 



21 





Clear 





7 



44 



21 





Clear 





8 



41 



25 





Partly cloudv 





9 



45 



28 



■■'t 



Cloudy 





10 



51 



34 





Cloudy 





II 



60 



44 





Partly cloudy 





12 



60 



50 





Cloudy 





13 



59 



40 





Partly cloudy 





14 



40 



27 





Cloudy 





15 



39 



33 



';38 



Cloudy 





16 



40 



35 



.30 



Cloudy 





17 



43 



38 



. 10 



Clear 





18 



40 



30 





Partly cloudy 





19 



31 



26 





Clear 





20 



32 



17 





Clear 



Subsequently we learned of injuries very similar to the above in 

 Dutchess county. The application of a miscible oil was made the 

 last week in November and some twenty greening and northern 

 spy trees, set ten or twelve years before, were dead by midsummer, 

 and as many more showed evidence of more or less injury. The 

 damage was confined, we are informed, to trees sprayed one 

 afternoon when the sky was overcast. An examination of samples 

 received from the affected trees showed conditions practically 

 the same as those described above for the Athens orchards. The 

 bark was variably cracked on a limb from a tree in a dying condi- 

 tion and showed here and there well-marked dead areas with 

 greener tissues on either side. There was the familiar enlarge- 

 ment of the lenticels and an unhealthy, brownish condition of the 

 inner bark. The samples were just being entered by the fruit tree 

 bark beetle, Eccoptogaster rugulosa Ratz. 



The above applications to fruit trees in Greene county were 

 made with modern apparatus and, so far as we were able to ascer- 



