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Agricultural Manual 



now the most important industry, the chief products being market 

 milk and butter. Alfalfa grows readily, especially in the northern 

 part. 



A generation or two ago there was in the towns of Middleburgh 

 and Fulton a highly developed broom-corn industry, which h-as 

 since been abandoned. Within the last year or two, owing to the 

 high prices of broom corn, an effort has been made to re-establish 

 the industry. 



CLIMATE AND RAINFALL 



Climatological records for Schoharie County have been taken 

 at Sharon Springs, at an elevation of S21 feet, the present observer 

 being \Y. M. Kling. 



The average 1 dates for the last killing frost in spring and the first 

 in fall are May 7 and October 2, respectively, giving a growing 

 season of 148 days. 



The following table covers the period 1913 to 1919 : 



Records o? Temperature axd Precipitation at Sharon Springs 





Temperature 



Precipitation 





Aver- 

 age 



Highest 

 maximum 



Lowest 



minimum 



Average 

 inches 



Amount in 2-1 

 hours 



Snow, 





Degrees 



Year 



Degrees 



Year 



Greatest 

 record, 

 inches 



Year 



depth 

 in inches 



January 



February 



March 



April 



May 



22.7 

 21.1 

 30.4 

 44.7 

 55.8 

 63.9 

 70.0 

 68.1 

 60.2 

 51.5 

 37.8 

 25.0 



45.9 



60 

 56 

 69 

 88 

 91 

 95 

 96 

 99 

 94 

 82 

 70 

 62 



99 



1916 



1918* 



1918 



1915 



1914 



1919 



1919* 



1916 



1914 



1916 



1914* 



1914 



1916 



—22 



—27 



—10 



12 



21 



28 



41 



39 



25 



23 



4 



—28 



— 2S 



1914 

 1914 

 1916 

 1919 

 1913 

 1913 

 1913 

 • 1915* 

 1913 

 1915 

 1917 

 1917 



1917 



2.80 

 2.65 

 2.96 

 3.08 

 3.53 

 3.70 

 4.76 

 3.36 

 3.22 

 3.62 

 2.50 

 3.00 



39.18 



1.70 

 1.60 

 2.75 

 1.12 

 1.52 

 1.45 

 5.84 

 1.70 

 1.66 

 2.19 

 1.84 

 1.65 



5.84 



1915 

 1914 

 1914 

 1914 

 1916 

 1915 

 1914 

 1915 

 1918 

 1917 

 1913 

 1915 



1914 



14.2 



14.2 



20 2 



3.6 



0.2 



June 





July 





August 



September .... 



October 



November. . . . 

 December 



Year 



0.1 



2 9 



17.5 



73.8 







* Also earlier years. 



TOPOGRAPHY AND NATURAL CHARACTERISTICS 

 The surface is an upland broken by mountains in the south, and 

 by hills in the center and north. A northerly branch of the Cats- 

 kill Mountains lies along the southern border, the highest summits 

 of which are 3,000 feet above tide. From them irregular spurs 



