New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 379 
During only three months has the monthly range of temperature 
been greater than in 1888, while during eight months the range 
was from 3.1° to 21.1° F. less than in that year. The average 
was 9.9° F. less for the eight and 7.9° F. more for the three 
months. This depression of range harmonizes with the rainfall, 
and shows that with the ereater amount of water in the soil and 
atmosphere there is a more equable temperature. 
By adding the mean monthly temperature for the corresponding 
months of each year, we find the column of monthly mean tem- 
perature for five years, including eleven months of 1889. Comparing 
each of these eleven months with this monthly mean we find six 
below the mean and five above. Combining the differences gives 
7° FE. above the mean temperature for the eleven months of 1889. 
The greatest depression of the mean monthly of any month 
_ below the general mean for that month was October, 3.1°, and 
- June, 2.5° F. . 
The greatest corresponding elevation above the mean was 
January, 7.1°, and March, 6.8° F. . 
The number of days in each month on which there was an 
appreciable amount of precipitation is recorded and compared 
with similar data for previous years. The average number of 
days on which precipitation was appreciable has been, in seven . 
and one-half years, 125 per year. 
DAYS ON WHICH PRECIPITATION WAS APPRECIABLE. 





















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