Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 36W. White, 1889 - Agriculture |
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... inches of rain- fall were recorded by the gauge at the Amherst Experiment Station . A killing frost occurred over nearly the entire State on the 6th and 7th , seriously injuring the unripe corn and some other crops , particularly ...
... inches of rain- fall were recorded by the gauge at the Amherst Experiment Station . A killing frost occurred over nearly the entire State on the 6th and 7th , seriously injuring the unripe corn and some other crops , particularly ...
Page xv
... inches . REMARKS . Mean . Max . Min . inches . Prevailing direction . Maximum velocity or force . 1888 . The last killing frost occurred May 8 ; the first , Sept. 7 . The last snow- storm occurred April 10 ; the first , Nov. 25 ...
... inches . REMARKS . Mean . Max . Min . inches . Prevailing direction . Maximum velocity or force . 1888 . The last killing frost occurred May 8 ; the first , Sept. 7 . The last snow- storm occurred April 10 ; the first , Nov. 25 ...
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... inch of rainfall is equivalent to about 100 tons per acre , to an equivalent of from two to three inches of rain . Returning now to our illustrative analysis , we find that of water and the other constituents usually reckoned as para ...
... inch of rainfall is equivalent to about 100 tons per acre , to an equivalent of from two to three inches of rain . Returning now to our illustrative analysis , we find that of water and the other constituents usually reckoned as para ...
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... inches ; while experi- ments lasting for one year at Ogdensburg , N.Y. , showed it to be there 49.37 inches , and at Syracuse , N.Y. , 50.2 inches . Observations taken at Salem and Cambridge , Mass . , determine it at about 56 inches ...
... inches ; while experi- ments lasting for one year at Ogdensburg , N.Y. , showed it to be there 49.37 inches , and at Syracuse , N.Y. , 50.2 inches . Observations taken at Salem and Cambridge , Mass . , determine it at about 56 inches ...
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... Inches . Evaporation , Per cent of Inches . Rainfall . Lake Cochituate , Mass . , 29 49.11 27.03 55.04 • Sudbury River , Mass . , 6 46.10 24.17 52.43 Mystic River , Mass . , 5 42.78 23.13 54.06 Croton River , N.Y . , . 13 46.64 20.29 ...
... Inches . Evaporation , Per cent of Inches . Rainfall . Lake Cochituate , Mass . , 29 49.11 27.03 55.04 • Sudbury River , Mass . , 6 46.10 24.17 52.43 Mystic River , Mass . , 5 42.78 23.13 54.06 Croton River , N.Y . , . 13 46.64 20.29 ...
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