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Rainfall'and Number of Wet Days. 



Guinea Zone. 



Deciduous Forest. 



and 89, that is the range of humidity in the forest zone. When the 

 humidity has a greater variation than 9 points and a minimum below 

 75 points these crops do not thrive. The desiccation following on the 

 destruction of the high forest is, therefore, a conclusive factor in the 

 inhibition of these main agricultural crops of the country. Minor 

 crops such as bananas, pawpaws, plantains, and coco-yams, of great 

 local importance, also conform to these restrictions. 



In considering the stations in detail, it will be noticed that Axim, 

 on the coast and in the Evergreen Forest, has the highest relative 

 humidity, from June to November, the records showing over 90. 

 Seccondee presents an anomaly, as, although on the sea-coast and at 

 the present termination of the Sudanese coastal wedge, its relative 

 humidity is considerably below that of any other coastal town, but 

 rather higher than the inland towns in the Sudanese Zone. Kintampo 

 shows an intermediate stage between the Guinea Zone records and the 

 inland Sudanese, Aburi conforms to the Deciduous Forest average 

 on the whole. 



