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Ou7' Climate and our Wheat-Crops. 
crops they say they were well harvested south of Yorkshire, and 
that the yield was abundant. 
Thus this abundant crop was grown under the influence of a 
mild and rather wet winter, a spring of moderate characters, 
and a summer of only moderate temperatures, and with heavy 
rains excepting in July. 
1833. — October, November, December, and February were 
for the most part considerably warmer than the average ; but 
January and March were considerably colder, and April rather 
colder than the average. There had been a considerable amount 
of rain in October, and there was a great excess in February ; 
but there was a deficiency in every other month from November 
to May inclusive. May was also unusually hot ; June was hot 
with a rather high total of rain, but greatly due to a violent gale 
about the middle of the month ; July was rather, and August 
and September were considerably, below the average as to mean 
temperature ; but the fall of rain during the three months was 
below average. Tooke and Newmarch say that the winter was 
open and wet, the spring wet excepting part of March ; May, 
and most of June, fine ; July showery, and the autumn mostly 
favourable for maturing and harvesting the crops, which were 
rather thin on the ground, but yielded well. 
Thus this second of the series of abundant wheat-crops was 
grown in a season characterised by a generally mild and 
moderately wet winter and early spring, excepting January and 
March, which were cold. The remainder of the spring, and the 
early summer, were hot and mostly dry, and the rest of the 
season upon the whole favourable. The result was a high 
vielding, but not bulky straw crop. 
1834. — The mean temperature was higher than the average 
in every month from November 1833 to September 1834 inclu- 
sive, excepting in April, when the deficiency was not great. 
The excess was the most marked in the winter and in May, 
June, and July. November, December, and January were 
wet as well as warm ; but February, March, April, and May 
were very dry, and June was scarcely average as to rainfall ; in 
July there is a great excess indicated, which, however, was due 
to a tremendous storm, chiefly confined to London and twenty 
or thirty miles distant ; in August there was again an excess, 
but in September a considerable deficiency. According to Tooke 
and Newmarch, the winter was mild and wet, the spring 
generally forward, the summer decidedly fine and dry, with 
high temperatures, and the autumn also fine ; the wheat-crop 
remarkably abundant, got in well, of fine quality, and large 
yield. 
This, which was one of the heaviest crops of wheat on record 
