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lower temperature for the eleven months of 1888 than for the mean 
of the corresponding months compared. 
The greatest depression from the mean was, in the order named: 
October, May and January respectively, 4.37° F., 436° F. and 
3.54° FF. : 
The greatest elevation above the mean was, in the same order: 
February, June and August respectively, 3.54° F., 2.42° F. and 
2.28° F. 
That part of the table devoted to maximum and minimum tem- 
perature means and range is interesting as showing something of 
the vicissitudes of temperature to which our crops must be sub- 
jected. These figures do not tell the whole story, either, for these 
extremes are very apt to occur with only a comparatively short 
interval between them, and then, too often, when vegetation is 
struggling with an inadequate water supply. The periods of sum- 
mer drought are usually those of greatest and most rapid range of 
temperature during the growing season. 
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 in the following table: 
DAYS ON WHICH PRECIPITATION WAS APPRECIABLE. 


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