300 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 
Normal monthly, seasonal, and annual temperature and precipitation at Manatee, 
Manatee County, Fla. 
Month. 
Temperature. 
Precipitation. 
Mean. 
Absolute 
maxi¬ 
mum. 
Absolute 
min¬ 
imum. 
Mean. 
Total 
amount 
for the 
driest 
year. 
Total 
amount 
for the 
wettest 
year. 
Deg. F. 
Deg. F. 
Deg. F. 
Inches 
Inches 
Inches 
December ___ _ 
61.8 
85 
19 
2.37 
5.19 
4.41 
January _ _ 
60.7 
88 
20 
2.78 
0.36 
3.36 
February 
62.3 
89 
23 
3.01 
1.40 
3.87 
Winter __ _.. 
61.6 
8.16 
6.95 
11.64 
March _ _ _ 
66.6 
90 
31 
2.71 
0.00 
8.59 
April 
70.6 I 
92 
39 
1.91 
1.84 
3.20 
May_ 
76.2 
97 
47 
2.92 
2.54 
4.13 
Spring _ 
71.1 
7.54 
“4.38 
15.92 
June _ _ - - 
80.1 
100 
59 
7.80 
8.11 
9.23 
July_ 
81.0 
| 99 
61 
| 10.84 
6.46 
11.05 
August 
81.2 
96 
65 
9.16 
6.73 
15.45 
Summer __ - 
80.8 
27.80 
i 21.30 
35.73 
September 
80.0 
97 
56 
7.57 
6.12 
6.64 
October _ - 
73.9 
93 
39 
2.71 
1.55 
3.30 
November 
67.1 
88 
29 
1.62 
1.14 
2.55 
Fall 
73.7 
: 11.90 
8.81 
12.49 
Year __ _ _ 
71.8 
100 
19 
55.40 
41.44 
75.78 
AGRICULTURE. 
In Pinellas County citrus fruit growing is the principal indus¬ 
try and little attention is at present paid to general farming or other 
forms of agriculture. 
Cotton and corn were grown quite generally in the early days 
and a considerable acreage was devoted to these crops for a period 
following the disastrous freeze of 1895, which seriously injured the 
citrus trees. This practice continued, however, only while the groves 
were recuperating. 
The growing of citrus fruits has been carried on for some time 
in Pinellas County and each year the acreage in groves increases. 
As a result land values have advanced sharply in recent years. The 
Norfolk fine sand, or “piny-woods land,” is generally recognized as 
the best soil in the county for growing citrus fruits, and all the prof- 
