Ve STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 
_ RAINFALL, 
The total amount for the year of 43.63. inches was 3.34 
inches less than the average for the past eighteen years. June 
on the average has the least rainfall of 2.93 inches for the 
past eighteen years, while July has the greatest amount of 
precipitation with an average of 4.98 inches. This fact abouit 
July is really anomalous because in 1889 over II inches, and 
in 1897 over 12 inches of rain fell in the month of July. These 
amounts of rain in a single month are phenomenal and make 
the average too high. The month of the most storms is 
March with theoretically the most rainfall. For the year the 
first two and last two months with June, August and Septem- 
ber all had less than their average amount of precipitation. 
November had the greatest deficiency of 2.05 inches. August 
was next with 1.67 inches less than normal. March and April 
had about 1.50 inches and May 2 inches more than the normal. 
The average for the state was 46.25. The variation of the 
amount of rainfall over the different parts of the state is in- 
teresting. There are two kinds of variations; first, a per- 
manent variation whereby the western part of the state re- 
ceives the maximum amount and the eastern part the mini- 
mum; second, a local variation where certain areas of the 
state receive for one season only, either very much more or 
very much less than the normal average. These local varia- 
tions seem to have no law controlling them, but happen to 
vary from causes as spasmodic as the rainfall. Moisture laden 
winds always precipitate more rain moving up and over ele- 
vations of land than when blowing over level areas or down 
descending slopes. 
GROWING SEASON, 
The growing season commenced at the last killing frost on 
May rith and extended to the first killing frost on October 
12th, a period of 154 days, 7 days longer than the average of 
