METEOROLOGY ; IMPOETATIONS OF GRAIN ; SALES OP 
BRITISH WHEAT ; PRICES OF CORN AND OTHER 
PRODUCE; AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS; AND STA- 
TISTICS OF DAIRY PRODUCE. 
£27ie fads are derived chiefly from the Meteorological Eeports of Mr. 
Glaisheb, and the Returns of the Board of Trade, and of the Inspector- 
General OF Imports and Exports.] 
METEOROLOGY.— 1874. 
First Quarter (January, February, March). — The warm period whicli 
set in on the 15th December, 1873, continued, with very few and 
slight exceptions, throughout the whole of January and until the 
3rd day of February, the average daily excess of mean temperature 
for these 51 days was 4°-6, and for the 34 days from 1st January 
was 4°'7 ; during this lengthened warm period, the direction of the 
wind was usually a compound of the S. and W. On the 4th of 
February the wind was N.E., and a cold period began, which con- 
tinued till the 12th day, the direction of the wind being usually 
a compound of the E. with N. or S., the average daily deficiency 
was 
On the 12th day of February the direction of the wind changed 
to S.W., and the temperature of the air passed above the average, 
and continued above for 19 days, its average daily excess was 
3°'l ; this was followed by 10 days of cold weather, from March 4th 
to March 13th, and during this period snow fell generally over 
the country, the average daily deficiency of temperature being 
4i°; from March 13th to the end of the quarter the weather was 
warm, and the average excess of mean daily temperature was 5f° 
nearly. 
The mean temperature of January was 41°'7 being 5°"4 higher than 
the average of 103 years, and 3°-4 higher than the average of the 
preceding 33 years. It was 0°-4 lower than in 1873, and 0^-4 
higher than in 1871, so that the mean temperature for the last 
3 consecutive Januaries was 4r-7. Back to 1771 there is only 
one instance in which the mean temperature of 3 consecutive 
Januaries has been so high, viz., in the years 1851, 1852, and 1853, 
when the values were 42°-9, 42°-0, and 42°-4, the mean of which is 
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