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Agricultural Manual 



Record of Temperature and Precipitation at Lake George 





Tempkhatiuk 



Precipitation 





Aver- 

 age 



Highest 

 maximum 



Lowest 

 minimum 



Average 

 inches 



Amount in 24 

 hours 



Snow, 





Degrees 



Year 



Degrees 



Year 



Greatest 

 record, 

 inches 



Year 



depth 

 in inches 



April 



19.6 

 18.4 

 31.0 

 44.1 

 55.5 

 63.7 

 69.8 

 66.8 

 60.4 

 49.7 

 37.4 

 24.9 



45.1 



55 

 52 

 79 

 89 

 96 

 93 

 102 

 97 

 94 

 82 

 74 

 6-1 



102 



♦1916 



*1915 

 1910 

 1915 

 1911 



♦1918 

 1911 

 1917 

 1913 

 1914 

 1914 

 1914 



1911 



—28 



—30 



—14 



5 



24 



32 



36 



39 



26 



18 



—1 



—30 



—30 



1914 

 1908 

 1912 

 1911 

 1914 

 1912 

 1908 

 1912 

 1914 

 1914 

 1914 

 1917 



1917* 



3.11 

 3.64 

 3.60 

 2.72 

 3.21 

 4.23 

 4.19 

 4.08 

 3.43 

 3.85 

 2.SS 

 3.42 



42.16 



1.69 

 3 00 

 1.91 

 1.80 

 1.70 

 3.85 

 3.61 

 2.24 

 2.03 

 3.24 

 2.12 

 1.73 



3.85 



1909 

 1914 

 1909 

 1914 

 1916 

 1917 

 1917 

 1910 

 1916 

 1917 

 1912 

 1917 



1917 



15.7 



22.3 



11.9 



3.1 



May 



T 



June 





July 





August 



September. . . . 



October 



November. . . . 

 December 



Year 



T 



4.6 



14.7 



72 3 







* Also earlier years. 



TOPOGRAPHY AND NATURAL CHARACTERISTICS 



The surface is very broken and mountainous, less than one- 

 half being susceptible of cultivation. The mountain ranges are 

 continuous. In this county they are broader, less pointed, and 

 generally less precipitous than those in Essex. The valleys 

 are wider and more connected, and there are larger expanses of 

 comparatively level land. A great number of peaks within the 

 county rise to a height of 2,500 to 3,000 feet above tide. Many 

 rocks are quarried for building purposes; limestone of an 

 excellent quality is also quarried. 



The drainage of the county is mostly through the Hudson 

 River. This stream enters the county from Essex in two branches 

 about ten miles apart, which, after flowing through nearly 

 parallel valleys for about thirty miles, unite in one stream. The 

 east branch is the outlet of Sehroon Lake, and the west branch 

 forms the drainage of the Adirondack Mountains. Lake George 

 receives the drainage of the eastern part of the county. 



The soil is mostly a thin sandy loam. The level lands west of 

 Glens Falls are very sandv. The sides of the mountains have a 



