METEOROLOGY; IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN; SALES OF 
BRITISH WHEAT ; PRICES OF CORN AND OTHER 
PRODUCE; AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS; AND STA- 
TISTICS OF DAIRY PRODUCE. 
[The facts are derived chiefly from the Meteorological Reports of Mr. 
Glaisher, and the Returns of the Board of Trade, and of the Isspector- 
Gent:ral of Imports and Exports.] 
METEOROLOGY.— 1876. 
First Quarter (January, February, March). — The first four days of 
the year were warm, the temperature showing a mean daily excess 
of nearly 6°. From 5th to 16th January a cold period prevailed, 
and the mean temperature averaged a defect of nearly 7° ; a warm 
period then set in, and continued until 3rd February, followed by 
nine days cold weather. From 14th February to 8th March the 
temperature was generally in excess, but on 9th, a third cold 
period commenced, and lasted until 27th. The last four days of 
March were warm. Mr. Glaisher calls attention to the remarkable 
alternations of temperature in each month of the quarter. The 
mean temperature was below the average on 43, and showed an 
excess on 48 of the 91 days in the quarter. As evidence of the 
extremes of temperature which prevailed, it may be mentioned that 
the average deficiency on the 43 days of low temperature was 
5 0, 4, and the average excess on the 48 warm days was 5°-7. 
The mean temperature of the quarter was 39 c- 8, and l o- 0 above the 
average for the corresponding period in 105 years. In Jannary 
the mean was 37°-l, and both in February and March 41°-1 ; the 
mean showed an excess of 2 0- 5 in February, whereas it differed 
but slightly from the average in January and March. The mean 
temperature of the quarter at 50 stations of observation ranged 
from 34°-4 at Allenheads (Northumberland), to 44°-9 at Helston 
(Cornwall). 
The amount of rain and melted snow measured during the quarter 
at Greenwich did not, however, exceed 4-9 inches, which corresponded 
with the average amount in 61 years ; the amounts in inches were 
1*1 in January, 1*5 in February, and 2-3 in March. The average rain- 
fall at all the 50 stations of observation between latitudes 50° and 
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