New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 383 
In comparing the record for June, 1888, with: previous years, it 
will be noticed that there was the least sunshine recorded in 
1888. More sunshine was recorded for July than in either 1886 
or 1887, but less than 1885 by one whole day’s sunshine. For 
August the reverse is true. There was less sunshine in 1888 for 
this month than for the corresponding months of 1886 and 1887, 
while the record for 1885 shows August to have been a very 
cloudy month. The reverse of this was true of September in 
nearly equal ratios, as there was only 157 hours of sunshine in 
1888, as compared with 200 in 1886 and 206 in 1885. If the 
record could have been continued longer the cloudiness of the 
latter part of the season of 1888 would have been more noticeable. 
Nineteen days of October gave an appreciable amount of precip- 
itation, and 18 were recorded as .8, or more cloudy, while rain 
occurred on nights of five days, which were recorded as having .7 
— or less of clouds at the time of observation. 
