The Past Agricultural Year. 
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Table III. — Comparison of tlie Eainfall of 1878-79 with the 
Annual Average. 
Statioxs. 
Total 
Rainfall 
November, 
1878, to 
October, 
1879. 
Average 
Annual 
Rainfall. 
E.\ceB3 of 
1378-9 
over 
Average. 
Defici- 
ency of 
1878-9 
under 
Average. 
Excess 
per cent, 
of 
Average. 
Defici- 
ency per 
cent, of 
Average. 
Inches. 
Inches. 
Inches. 

Inches. 

Bury St. Ednumds, Clifford 
35 
74 
23 
61 
12 
13 
51 
• - 
London, Camden Square .. 
3G 
64 
25 
02 
11 
62 
46 
• • 
Sliifnal, Houghton Hall .. 
34 
76 
23 
73 
11 
03 
46 
32 
91 
23 
25 
9 
66 
42 
• • 
29 
91 
21 
72 
8 
19 
38 
Banbury, High Street 
34 
02 
25 
24 
8 
78 
35 
41 
46 
30 
87 
10 
59 
34 
40 
42 
32 
45 
7 
97 
25 
33 
82 
27 
22 
6 
60 
24 
56 
74 
46 
11 
10 
63 
23 
Tenbury, Orleton 
37 
60 
30 
56 
7 
04 
23 
56 
05 
47 
17 
8 
88 
19 
45 
45 
39 
51 
5 
94 
15 
Maidstone, Hunton Court 
28 
83 
25 
13 
3 
70 
15 
Manchester, Ardwick 
35 
10 
30 
92 
4 
18 
14 
Llandudno, Warwick House 
32 
19 
30 
09 
2 
10 
7 
York 
24 
53 
23 
38 
1 
15 
5 
Skipton, Arucliffe 
53 
80 
56 
40 
2-60 
5 
Keswick, Scathwaite 
105 
62 
153 
•46 
47-84 
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" One other Table (III.) is necessary, in order to realise the 
relative severity of the injury sustained. In this table records 
from about twenty widely-scattered stations are grouped in the 
order of the excess of the fall of the twelve months 1878-9 above 
the average. Bury St. Edmunds has experienced most, and there- 
fore heads the list. The total fall at that station in the twelve 
months ending October 31st, 1879, was 35*74 inches, whereas 
the average fall in twelve months is only 23'61 inches ; the fall 
was therefore 12*13 inches above the average, or the excess 
amounted to 51 per cent, of the mean, i.e. rather more than half 
as much again as the usual amount. Middlesex and Shropshire 
follow next with nearly equal excess ; and then we gradually 
come to North Devon, Maidstone, Manchester, North Wales, and 
\ ork where the excess was unimportant ; and finally we finish 
with North-West Yorkshire and Cumberland, in each of which 
districts the twelve months have actually been drier than the 
average. If these percentage excesses are placed upon a map it 
will be found that they environ the county of Huntingdon in all 
directions, and render it certain that the excess of rainfall has 
been greater over the midland and eastern counties of England 
than elsewhere. Guided by this alone, one would expect that 
residents in those districts have suffered more than those else- 
