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season. ‘Thus we may say the past season has been (except the 
drouth of July) a rainy, or wet one, as well as a cool one, for we 
have seen that the lower temperature was in harmony with the 
popular belief, while the sunshine record was 2.5 percent lower 
than the average of the four midsummer months for three previous 
years. 
WIND. 
The direction of wind has been recorded by an anemometer put 
in successful operation by a former observer who * had some 
difficulty in clearly interpreting the record owing to the running 
together of the lines and consequent wearing away of the paper. 
This difficulty was overcome by increasing the distance and speed 
of movement by clockwork past the recording pen, and decreasing 
distance traversed by the pen itself, as it with the vane to which 
it is attached obeys every fluctuation and change of the wind. 
The record of direction is accurate and continuous. 
_ An attempt to record the force in pounds has not yet been a 
success. The record of prevailing wind obtained during the 
summer is given below. For several days in June, and more than 
half of July no record was taken. At several other times there were 
breaks for short intervals. All the hours of positive record 
obtained are given in hours in the following table under the head- 
ing of the direction from which the movement proceeded. The 
differences between the hours of record and 24 were either calms 
or when the wind was too light to give movement to the vane and 
is left blank. - 
* ©. 8. Plumb, Prof. of Ag., ete. Knoxville, Tenn. 
