216 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
possession of the Station are of considerable value in teaching 
the subjects of meteorology and climatology, and these records 
are frequently drawn on for class instruction. 
The results of the observations taken at Storrs during 1904 
are given in Table 56. 
The total precipitation for the year at Storrs was 40.19 
inches. ‘This is 8.46 inches less than the total amount for the 
year 1903, and 7.24 inches less than the average for the past 
sixteen years. Seven months out of the twelve had a smaller 
rainfall than the average for the same months during the six- 
teen years preceding. The principal shortage occurred in May, 
July and November. This is the smallest total rainfall for any 
year since 1899, and only three times has it gone below this 
amount during the sixteen years preceding. The total rainfall 
for each year since 1888 is given in Table 60. In spite of the 
large total annual shortage the rainfall was quite uniformly 
distributed throughout the season, there being*no periods of 
decided drought as in some other years. 
The Station has been helped during the growing season by 
the cooperation of men in different parts of the state who have 
continued to send us the records of the rainfall for their sec- 
tions as in previous years. These records, together with a 
number furnished by the New England section of the Weather 
Bureau, give quite completely the amount and distribution of 
rainfall throughout our state. ‘This data is given in Table 57. 
In this table are given the amounts of rainfall for the grow- 
ing season recorded at twenty different places throughout the 
state. The average of the records taken at these twenty places 
during the growing season, May to October inclusive, shows 
the rainfall to be 22.93 inches. The lightest rainfall was at 
New London where but 17.04 inches was recorded, and the 
greatest amount was 28.47 inches at Cream Hill. The amount 
recorded at Storrs was 19.24 inches. ‘This is 2.85 inches less 
than the rainfall for the same period in 1903, and 1.67 inches 
less than the average for the past fifteen years. 
Table 58 contains a summary of the rainfall for the growing 
season, May 1 to October 31, as recorded at twenty different 
places throughout the state for the fifteen seasons preceding 
that of 1904. 

