inches, lacking an inch of reaching the normal, and being the lowest rainfal recorded here for this month. Clear weather was in excess, and in connection with the scorching rays of the sun and the great lack of rain, the earth was burnt and baked hard, grass and crops shriveled and streams dried up. The barometric pressure during the month was remarkably steady, and read uniformly above the normal for a long time. Thunder storms occurred on the 18th, 20th, 21st and 31st.

August, 1887.-The barometric pressure remained remarkably even during the month. The minimum barometer, 29.645 inches, on the 17th, was the lowest in the State. Rain fell on 13 days, and the cloudy days were much in excess of the clear ones. The rain-fall, 2.47 inches, was a little above the average for the five years past. This month furnished the highest temperature recorded for August since the Station was established. This was 101° on the 4th, and exceeds any other by .4°; the nearest being 97° reached on the 22d in 1883 and on the 20th in 1884. There were thunder storms on the 5th and 12th; both followed by heavy rainfalls; about half an inch in each case.

September, 1887.-The rainfall for the month, 1.82 inches, is the least recorded for September since the Station was established, and is more than an inch below the average. The heaviest September rainfall occurred in 1884, and was 4.23 inches. The precipitation was distributed through the month, becoming heavier toward the close, the heaviest shower was half an inch on the 11th. The highest temperature was 92°.5 on the 5th, and the lowest 33° on the 26th, giving a range of 59°.5. There were two frosts during the month, that occurring on the 24th was a light one, and was the first one of the season the next on the 26th, was much heavier, and did considerable damage to late garden crops.

October, 1887.-The most noticeable feature of the weather was the unusually small rainfall, .38 inch, which is the smallest recorded by the Station for any month since it was established. The heaviest October rainfall, 4.34 inches, occurred in 1883, and the five-year average is 2.10 inches. The smallest rainfall for the State was .11 inch at Springboro. The heaviest showers were .13 inch on the 10th, followed by .09 the next day, and .08 inch on the 29th. Rain fell on six days, the mean daily rainfall being .012 inch. The weather was good, there being only eight cloudy days during the month. The drought which began in June continued through October, and as a consequence many of the streams and wells dried up and the river was very low. The highest temperature was 82° on the 7th, and the lowest 15°.5 on the 31st, giving a range of 66°.5. The mean temperature was 47°.9, and the humidity 77.7. Frosts occurred on the 6th, 12th to 17th, 19.h, 20th, 22d, 25th and 31st.

November, 1887.-The month opened with clear weather which continued until the 10th when there was a thunder storm followed by a heavy fall of rain. 18-0 A ES

The precipitation for the month, 2.84 inches, was about the average. The total snowfall during the month was eight inches. About noon of the 27th, it began raining, this soon changed to a heavy snow storm, so that by the next morning there were 6.8 inches of snow on the ground. There was a peculiar dense yellow haze on the morning of the 19th, followed at night by a snow storm. The lowest temperature for the State, 8° below zero, occurred here on the 29th; this is the lowest temperature reported during any November since 1880. The highest temperature was 71° on the 3d; the monthly range, 79°, was the greatest in the State; the mean temperature was 37°.6. The humidity was 84.8 per cent. Frosts occurred as follows, 1st, 2d, 3d, 5th, 6th, 7th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 21st, 22d, 28th, 29th, 30th.

December, 1887. This month was characterized by sudden barometric changes. It set in with a high barometer, 30.832 inches, on the morning of the 21st, then varied by successive variations of high and low pressure until noon of the 17th, when it reached the minimum, 29.645 inches, thus giving a range of 1.187 inches, which is unusually large. The precipitation for the month, 2.04 inches, is more than an inch below the average for December. The snowfall for the month was 1.6 inches. There were five inches of snow on the ground at the beginning of the month, but this was all melted off by the rain that fell the 2d and 3d. Rain or snow fell on 13 days; the heaviest snowfall, one inch, occurring the night of the 30th, was melted by the rain and sleet that fell the following day, and formed a layer of ice over the surface of the ground. The highest temperature was 55°, on the 4th, and the lowest, 1° below zero, on the 30th, giving a range of 56°. The mean temperature was 30°.7, and the humidity 86.4 per cent. There were frosts on the following dates: 1st, 5th, 6th, 14th, 22d, 23d, 26th, 29th and 30th.

The time of blooming of plants is much influenced by the state of the weather, so that the following list of plants found in bloom after their usual time of blooming had past, may be of some interest:

Henbit, Lamium amplexicaulis, L., November 8.

Pepper-grass, Lepidium Virginicium, L., November 12.

Dandelion, Taraxacum Dens-leonis, L., November 16.

Shepherd's Purse, Capsella Bursa pastoris, L., November 18.
Low Mallow, Malva rotundifolia, L., November 24.

Chickweed, Stellaria media, Smith, L., December 25.

Witch Hazel, Hamamelis Virginiana, L., December 25.

Those interested in this subject will find a carefully prepared list of the time of blooming of our common plants, in another part of the report.

The following tables record the facts above given, with other statistics regard. ing temperature and rainfall at the Station, and for the State, compiled from the reports of the forty-six observing stations of the Ohio Meteorological Bureau.

Table I contains the record of the mean temperature; the highest and lowest

temperature and range of temperature for each month; the number of clear, fair, cloudy and rainy days; the rainfall and prevailing direction of the wind for both the Experiment Station and the State.

In Table II is given a comparison of temperature and rainfall at the Station with the whole State, and of these, with the normal for the State for each month. In Table III is shown the rainfall for each month during the last five years. Table IV contains a comparison of the principal points of interest regarding temperature, state of the weather, and rainfall for the same five years.

Table V shows the daily rainfall at the Station during the year just past, while Table VI shows the daily 'mean temperature for the same period.