REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 
To the Board of Control of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station : 
Gentlemen. — I herewith submit my sixth annual report for the 
calendar year 1887. 
The year has been one of climatic extremes, May, June and July 
being much warmer than usual, the mean assumed to be that for the 
twelve years average published by Prof. Wilson, of Hobart College, 
Geneva, in 1867, and summarized in the second annual report of this 
station. 
The following tabulation of the mean monthly temperatures for 
1885, 1886 and 1887 will be found of interest, the results being those 
of the 7 a. m., noon, and twice the 6 p. m. readings, divided by four : 
1885. 
1886. 
1887. 
Mean for 
12 years.t 
21.05° 
20.58° 
21.60° 
25.29° 
14.23 
23.22 
25.42 
25.39 
21.15 
32.37 
27.65 
32.26 
43.78 
50.40 
43.85 
43.21 
58.03 
58.45 
65.80 
55.66 
66.93 
67.95 
69.22 
64.93 
July 
72.91 
71.47 
78.00 
70.28 
August 
65.98 
69.70 
68.92 
68.08 
September 
60.65 
63.60 
59.55 
60.47 
October 
49.04 
51.07 
46.11 
49.66 
November 
39.90 
37.17 
37.3 
39.12 
28.89 
22.85 
25.56 
45.21 
47.40 
46.66 
The number of days upon which rain or snow was noted or recorded 
was for the various years : 
1882. 
1883. 
1884. 
1885. 
1886. 
1887. 
13 
11 
12 
12 
12 
13 
14 
7 
11 
15 
12 
16 
8 
11 
10 
11 
11 
13 
10 
9 
16 
15 
13 
7 
"i 
12 
10 
12 
7 
9 
12 
13 
12 
9 
12 
10 
10 
9 
6 
20 
6 
September 
6 
10 
7 
6 
11 
5 
7 
10 
13 
12 
9 
15 
November 
7 
5 
8 
15 
11 
9 
4 
11 
10 
12 
13 
Total 
135 
137 
139 
120 
* E. Lewis Sturtevant, A. M., M. D. t Hobart College figures- 
