METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. ZES 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT STORRS, 
AND GENERAL WEATHER AND 
CROP REVIEW. 
REPORTED BY W. A. STOCKING, JR. 
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For the sixteen years preceding 1904 this Station kept con- 
tinuous weather records, making observations three times each 
day in accordance with the directions of the U. S. Weather 
Bureau. ‘The results of these records have been given each 
year in the annual report. This work was carried on at a cost 
of considerable labor and expense on the part of the Station. 
At the beginning of 1904, after consultation with the New 
England section of the Weather Bureau, it was deemed advis- 
able to omit a part of the observations formerly recorded by 
this Station. It has been found by the Weather Bureau that 
temperature observations taken three times daily are not nec- 
essary in order to get a fairly correct idea of temperature con- 
ditions. The only data now required by the Weather Bureau 
of its voluntary observers consists of the daily maximum and 
minimum temperature readings and a record of the precipita- 
tion. ‘This Station has, therefore, during the past year, re- 
corded only the maximum and minimum temperatures each 
day together with the amount and time of rainfall. For this 
work the self-registering maximum and minimum thermom- 
eters and the rain gauge used by, the Weather Bureau are 
used. This greatly simplifies the matter of taking observa- 
tions, and, of course, makes it necessary to omit from our 
annual report certain data that has been previously given. 
The mean temperature, together with the maximum and 
minimum, and the amount and distribution of precipitation 
are the weather phases which bear most directly upon crop: 
production and agricultural problems in general, and this data 
is considered of sufficient value to warrant the continuance of 
this work on the part of the Station. The records now in the 
