The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-03-18 00:00:00

TRE SIABONB AND TIM CROPS-TRZIR MUTUAL

DILATION&

Mr. Spooner did not know whether it woe to be
attributed to Um fact that Agricultural. Mrs ether op-
copatioak I. now at • discount that we had such • small
attendant' to night, or whether it warn from the literary
won of tbs members, who know they will waive a
bitter report from the Made of thalgentlemea of the Pres"
than they coo& obtain nes ens. TM title of the subject
was "TM BOW= and the °roes ; their mows
Italatioak but he waa ney mach afraid the subject was
somewhat disounive, and that it would fail to provide a
remedy for the present Mato of things as regards mid-
oultaraL However, U any emo atkka to facts and
sound remonings tiler is all can be expected. T'lle
accident may be sudden, end the dimes* may coats
on at ono*, but the remedy law be slow; yet
Crbps it is not the km curtain on that amount.
st countries of the world masiatly productive to
produce crops of corn or food, the lainearm of the meson'
over the crops or rather Oho dszsissrs of the latter on
the former. is the mare so in three
manatee which qtriollas.ald c/ paimeare men meditative.
/or example we have ema to ladle isdne the late famine
how great ha" been the dostrastka of lamas, lifs simply
owing to the deprivation of rata duim so many swaths
of the year, this deprivation being la noose macaw when
the growing, crops required It. ald-its all in all-the more
so that la the very country in which human Ms can to
sustained with the losid expanse, where the wants, both
or fond sag clothing, are lile imet, the destruction of Ufe
kis bass the greatest Hr. (laird has, we muse% kow
seat to WM by Um Government to lavestigete the amiss
or this loos of life, and how it may be avoided la th•
(Mare. Although in old limes famines were ael samasmon
even in more civilised conakies, and were gogliselerly
frequent in India, it is yet to be Wood woo Ws
opprobrium to salmon end to political smatimay WS be
wow., gum by improved saris:alters sad mems of
transport, or by the storing up of that aleamit whisk to.
or often bees allowed to ran to waste, and the proserva.
mon M mom yanks of that food which has bees pro-
demi to abundeat seers agalsst the ass of marelfs
which wM gar* come wain. This woo Wee or ow 4
our larelethaws (who wore net all took), history
cell was dem In sadist Bows and, as we read la
Writ, it was trenched to a large Wont in the dors
MONO end tr. Plianisit The awns of drought ben of
late men been lever* Mt in other imentrierria Olds'
to the utast of. feat..' In Andras where in. of
ahem and herds of cattle have anconMed ; In Menem to
the exlmOs of 'titration; mad la our OW& poseminge Ea
Smith Aides By mateast with Sham maple' we NM
oinaidar thali la this oonatry, with ill. dimilywoosio.
wok ow and mashie Mmes. with our Mule
aed fogs alleratkm ef seraWri. witamokia as we
vmdscs
do • el the allrfl to the mart of {II ,
not rely in some month. but la the mato
triad at one blowing from the loath or the week end
&waitend f throat
sa=rozghigt.creem over ft;
wHiatiez In admirable mils; bin the thoreeter le
neellrom th imar
at liali-fa spite of all this
we have la Ca= for and with a few mom-
Urea our agnate, Is. on the thole, as favourelds ass
regard' climate and ralahil as my ether to Zanye or
aswowweytre4„
without
is very.ridareititheretwed:r
fwa err parse
logother is almost without example. lortemately oar
woos are variorio-nre do not depend on one skean sad
this weather that la umediablo for ma crop is aka
favourable for mother. The two Pesten 11111•11 Mis age
owww• trenOt end exkletio raintall-.the lamer
bleed* by acWal sad diseat attack the Ismer * in.
direst maim and its nesul attendant dlinkithed tesamtee,
Solo. The former is illillabrielli ill this womiss.kh....h=
lathe; mit k ae=nputeak sad k not
to um coups, the ilat :bat titerimybe
4
any soma of the year. AM/ um
in mean end prevent or delay or luster the
or eorn, or a little later sod lacerfore wittt
mil amearage dap and other
sad It Tr.a.... OW. kiair, Warfare with a'
It may Wear M
nquomilmiostniosoospo the aroM of wheat, or worm
M. ea is thh Wei Year, In Um math lifinV
laionset the labours of harvest sall ths
expeoledems of the year.
ITALVery as( dd mew
Iv. rein dose not so mace es the mufti
as on tho rapidity of the and UM illarbil. On Halt
rends or perms otta/lf mils the tow is aid, ...dam
lo ta• mintion and wellies of ad bus sad rut
soluble parties of the me; bet en
est had and on
Muse soils la addition to this won is the
eiS,
ageft
further injury that. seat as the m which
ran be received by the anteoll or esa ho
by drains. the pone of the poll bsrderit
azolsidek ar drima oat. end _the amordiae
to thelr nature. more or WS DOOMS. bet a" a
man or aa aalsnal may be 11 kap{ palm ... a ash
if removed therefrom Is the me of very etifferar sou.
the pores time dosed remain ~...51y se, as pip a kw
limn sad the pleats are to a great immure deekeyed ;
i 6. the woo of limy mils after the mossalea et rain
ii,wmoow mow% and to. pasklare in the wpm soil
I. converted Into 1,10010.• Ind sighs haves OM Ear tk,
ahnosphoria Mr theory* it before compled. Mum pp ~,
ell the nos 11,,
*at: =tali eledziMisritllin or Mee were 1
and earn. og all libe enrOep water mid I
that oko mime the um nicht be mid Ist,
hawser. woe f In te lagalFsiink aad asmordiaZi. I
was thewirlit hat to ratans to the mum or
=eat to the game extent as Woes bomen
to time the weber Mehl paw am& yet the
Crwas too eiaLl.at rat
ot,ba. abir
...6.,
..=
of the elemonatla sabritiom Awoke§
re d'volleglicesesi *ei"ieiss=lieedee",:as reel
abetreata: a mal mama amthers
thee it Os behm thirst^ thattheMO.
aim hatln a peat mem» be Mowed to pain M
Om mrling rtrxdit' emi rhillen and the wider f arrows.
This vona la the Nee Mr. Meoht who.
bb;ta g mem hes nook not rely
owe ass bp bla ; and Wm Id see
rem* wiedm eon te FM_ br the
Wier as femme. U Zrairadult._____
m la Kr. s owe ie the glella ww•
that In his ow healliMdm r endmel=i ishis had g
moss en it the moms howl
mad semellime emedimenied bp artlialah ;
but or his lead eras Mil es 4 retentive It was
sot readily absehed. and It was his experience to Ind
lIM sliere !muds' the Wail•r diesherod hem the
helm that It was tsittesdl ir lb. emus
=width 'ime to wane. Mk fiedlersed Mr.
who had le dat be Morn In • memo
to the Whys et weterS end thus te
thow_,...ine Mil = Ye mil bad begs
nos."Wnie VII 7 oa Me Ir
irlit= lif

Ta

olrlm

falls. As la= or Pro of rain falling In twelve home is maim sad the use of alesseleals. yousr* AA eu bbe oustmash mem Wigton thaa if the fe ill.vee= over double with this glaring feet that 30b 01 the =lns of sewage is
it Belle She of time as the soil becomes saturate& dew to its swathe= and that UM Anneciala is in • state of
sad ilin poem re not being time for the water to solution, so that tho solid and Silky pare of Am= wh'eth
illswag. However, it to by no moans of t = hem hos in feet, caused the nuisance, had redly Namely any value
s that the great chaages ea the earth's surf ass Is st ail and was sot worth the labour employed to separate
broarlet about, that the water supply la kept up or re' it however necessary it may be to do an • great drat
moved by means of springs, that the Mlle are washed may be said on the subject if time admitted, but the
down and the valleys become fertile. There to a =mut- upshot of the whole is, with regards to inland towns
this variation In thie couatry A the annual fall A rain which would not much loaner be allowed to discharge the
rearing from hi to LI inches in some of the Eastern sew tge tato rivers—Avoid Amami so moth as joesible,
counties in no Ire Ass MO or 1301. some places in Cum- allow the solid ports to settle in tanks, let the liquid be
bAbted• Loh boa yen ors Araro represent. retber moth conveyed to grassland, and treat the solid m atom with
than one handetoil tons of water, and the =mud of injury simple substances such as lima sad ashes. There are very
es.,....b•u•fit dVimile My ma= on the tiose of the rear as few instances indeed In which the application of sewage
which the Pmalltiel fell takes Place, sad alma= as much to the soil, direct or indirect. hae been made to Par
on the clearectar of the soil on which It falls, an amount Duseaster, sad me or two other places A abase mentioned
that would came exoessive Ailey on retentive land may , but Eilabanth stands almost slow. Some towns Indeed
be sesAred with imPuedir sad advantage on light Porous have been almost ruined by redden expenditure in this
ails, sad particularly on bitty patter= It le a viol direction. I dare soy some of you have nen, as welt as
eoWireell otanion, and we may remark the influence of the myself, toe ellspodilon A the iiinhargh swap on the
=tad Pacularly of the rainfall on the nrots, semi Leith meadows, on =ice it =as by gravity sod produce'
before my notice in the ymr liffil (our last dry great results, so much so that some of the meadows
=lert. In the moot= of A.pell. MA, and June, the produce • mum of CM per acre, so that there was no
,my locality amount= to 336 not much more inducement to divas' of the land for building purposes
relle-balf the average, sad it will he remembered that and thus create a population that might not lad the
lielares were burnt up. the Ames crop very scanty, odour from the sewage particularly agreeable. The
litilhlP Wrap mprocalsinir. 'sad the spring sewn herbage Assists of • mares brass and is used for cows in
Ma As straw and mitering from want A rill- • green state, but to not valued so highly as the Italian rye
=iat rely I spent a week la the Lothhas grass from dry land, however. It is nutritious sad is liked
lls very mock struck with the remark- partkuhrly in a dry season It may be observed that the
"le seeitseet—ell the Crepe were good, the root crone oratorios-06os of la situated only about me or
were very proutiaing, sad them was at abundance ief gran one see
,r, kla elitist e;r61,7, mei :rut not anti the.
particularlyr,explanation,lii rye gram. and the
sad I found that Lb-Inr:Ask, some rk.eago.rdtinarr dilliceb-wtter. I gathered Atm grass sad
lye mils. from Ediaburgle, the rainfall had been during dried it an it retained when dry, sitar loess 75 per
Ass" some three months 651, or just double that we had root M moisture, its green colour, sad a fragrant odour.
experienced, sad this is as district where the =Dual fall speaking of the sewage irrigation near ',Habash (Craig.
Is not szogoctro but umally about the earns amount 'ninny meadows) Yr. Spooner said Edinburgh is situated
as oar own It would be very &Smelt to estimate on a Ary high week the em not eesp f,Ol ; it lims on
the masa, Take of this additions' titres 0100•11 land, then on other land, and dea/ty into the sea. The
of. rain but it mut have been very cousidierabla land ie is the haoth a one proprietor, who haa made a
!Lis e very common opinion, and we may reaustk 'cry good thing of it BOW* important lamas may be
ralle WM* are very much inclined to acovt as facts dicta teamed from the experience of Southampton; the tows
derived from very t evidence. Thus, nothing is being • watering place at coa time, the inhabitants were
more eeleritell than the maks that the plaattne and the eery soil xtt to kayo everything vary clean sad nice. •
preemie of trees toad very much to the Warsaw of the gentleman came down and told them they must altar
rainfall Is the district in which they are plaided or exist. their Aware altogether, and he would premise them an
ing ; but what is really the verdict on the widens, of facts? income of £5,000 • year. They had Pretty good ewers
It is true that in this country If we draw a Imo north and before ; but they deepened them, and the result was that,
mouth, and dirkle the count= into two sectione—east and hate= of the moan discharging into the sea, they had
west, that we shall lind that the rainfall is mach greater, the sea come Into the sewers, aad ism= of getting
as well as the memo A in the western haw • but £5,000 a year morethanthat had to be spent in reatoriag
is not this hirer ratherwissi4snoe than • causs, and Is thaw to their previous state. Then canoe the plea called
It net more likely that the mem of moisture is rather the the A. R. 0.. trios Ahem, Blood, and Carbon ; best the
cams of the trees Mae Me tress the cause of the rein? Is Town 0 utacii, hating been bitten tor.. experiments,
AA Ireland agethad there Is less timber than in the told the company to do the az meats on thaw own
western and southern pate of England; but the esinfil aocount. They pereneded the soil to lay out a 005.
Is greater. Apia, doing the past 30 pan hedgerows, siderable atem of moneys. land, and meld RAY would rest
woods, sad trees have hem out down a= grubbed up, and It; but =thing. he bettered, was mad' out of it Many
vary few tress pleated in their plaos ; bet has the climate years ago the peo&iof Southampton spent • greet deal
become drier in memseence 1 Jae the contrary I In my A mosey in get water, they were not satiated with
own district. whit* is woody, there is • lees rainfall than the river, but most. Aan artesian well. Dr. Buckle=
you have in Donstahlre ; bat I dad that daring the last was asked A glere a testae on the subject, and his iodate
ten MN fba &AMP rainfall has besa 31 311 Inches, be* oominded—" Ail lam arm to you may be summed up in
3/7 more than the average of the pneeling decade. sad am ward—' Pereavere.' Two years after there was a
In the tea years before that it was drier sill If we name walla( of the British ficsiety in Southampton and Dr.
on tlids wetter we mania be much eerpeleed, for In the
there Wpm Robed to lecture cola. They lead been
summersummerere is no pert so dry as the round the awe dam ; but the Dr.'s view" had
roots of trees. A toes weighing • tea comets et no less sad _he his leettwe by these remarkable
them 15 or 16 Art, of water, sad • mop of trees wirds—'s When you have an attest= well, gentlemen,
weighing Nee eight tons per sae comsat' of =out all to ressagebar me." After diming some time they
"Asa tor of molatass, sad what lead so dry as that friers their minas well, and now they get water from the
elide a crop of retches has been cut and removed in • rim, altar Illtratiag through • core= amount of land.
Wirhdlier I Thus fasts reader it more than doubtful They were aot santented with thee towers, and at Way.
there is say truth in the commonly resolved mouth they WM Mee matented, and he supposed they
that the ezieseas of Ines inareases the moisture weald mann y Mr. Spomer then Voice A
Vine II
midlistrice or whether. on the onateary, trees an Ye II AMe asui gave the following table from
coaseqnsatie of rain rather than • masa. Another fad is obegnraitune In ans of Midland counties :
.111tqeshebtee• haat eire7arridaa., tria ...rok, RididA Imparatarso lied /nitration In each of light
Tee=
relefan is slims oaleandol Aim the =Amin, ef
the year. In Jemmy, to the and. Now ,as I have =dated Rain Filtration ileaPAlt- HAI PA
out ebowhere, the apicaltaral par really cenuagesee me Tears,
__ Um acre.
moon as the preceding harvest has boa withered Jae lad Ischia per coat per cent. Tans.
he reakisaed fsem the bsplagiap el Osenber milker —____
than Iressary. as these Is ao other tatiestrr so lalissany we 3LI al 43.1 3UI)
erseaactsd with the rslafalL or demean es man open my 11.10 119 47.1 1137
Aas that A Ail:Amhara We hare Uwe a Alio o las ngr 0 300 23411
the =made f in my owe locality for the last twenty um pita 0.6 114 11611
years, the obesnaticas being taken by wyself, and there isto AA 18.1 61 8 1171
are many examples Mown as to very different mutts 1841 3110 441 568 3151
reckoned from lBOO 44.4 56 6 WM
ninguleintleLer or Jai fall
ill
d the litke: year ii 1113 ;els M.O 64.0 WOO
is very notiosable. showing a differeaos of atemA Ilve -
Inches in excess If rasksned from October, _
_and In some mean gagi 42.4 67.6
preceding years It is still more Pada& Tor
imaratels. in 1173 there isa varieties of more than eleven
Inches, In 1871 • dilemma of ten Inches, although in an
vaoillan di/settee, In 1878 of needy nine inches, In 1868
A eight lathes. During the lei decade, as we have pointd
out, we have had =exams" of nag and on the whole •
low temperature, asol ass consemeace the wheat mop, on
the ass of which prosperity so much rim or med., used
to . has of hte years been very deariellt, what,
root mops, on the ether hand, have been fairly good.
It is not, however, the amount of the rainfall of
the year so much a the months dales which it mind.
e abllt that the coons aro affactsd by. Thus • wet
a wit Ifsy are nassillsgly injurious to the
whist crop, in the former month preveating the plant
taking deep root and tillaring,ead in the Attar month from
miring that strong and healthy growth expected Its this
month and In Just and thus tha old "Atop no doubt
erillillatOd—" I trout to my wheat in May, and came right
serrowf Ali sway ; I wont malt in Jane, and came away
whistling • merry tam," the hot sun in the latter month
and the Saa weather having recovered AA weakly Panto.
A very dry Jane AA July are almost fatal to the turnip
arratlems.rehiliews ago we had some very hot summers.
Ii 1858, when there was little more
rhan half the prosint average daring the year—only 17
inches, and in VA month of Jam lees than half an inch,
sad consequently we had almost a failure at the turnip
awe) much so that the C runcil. or rather a section of
the Con, of the Royal Agricultaral Society, offered a
pries for the best seem on 'The failure of the turnip crop
—its mass and riemseee With an evident mental row-
ratios that the tun= crop =a gone fa ever, or that
nothing but • miracle or some scientille discovery could
restarts it, they offered a prise for the best sour on the
subject. And becaoseau miraculous discovery was made,
bemuse the failure was due, and assign= by at least one
competitor. to Ilene= cam= which were Al logically
pointed out, and the awed= shown by facts sad induc-
tive reason the Commit refused to award the prise.
Having been successful = Ararat occasions A winning
the 8 shay's prima, aied hart= • strong impression as to
the canals of the mischief. I sent in an mear in cornestl.
ties for the pa bu
but, as before stated. without effect.
The moue= might hem been In labour, t sot even a
solitary room out Will , more than 10 leaf" ham
passed and pose since that lime, and lam as shearer con-
visaed A ever that the prim was as fairly earned as any
prise offered by the flocialy, and ought to have been
awarded, and that the mum of the failure were correctly
pointed out, and the rested= fairly indicated. All our
oheervationa sod facts duty the last 10 years have tended
to Mow it What are the le=a In connectica with the
rainfall at that time? I lei from my rowdy that the
fall of rain during the fire yes= medlar is 1868 =erased
only 00 Aim per annuat wallet the average of the six
preceding years was SU ladies, sad again, whilst ilia
average fall in Jana daring Sass Az yeses we. upwards
of three Aches, that fir the last Ave rases was only
ens inch, or ow-third lee as records the years,
and two-thirds lee' as apeds tha important month
of Joss I Was I act Puttied thirst are In assign.
lug this as the principal suss of the failure? I
km now directed your atteatlon to three novelties
with retard to the rainfall which so far a" I am award
have not yet pointed out bedere—arstly, thet there la
great reason to doubt whetherothe commonly stacoptad
opinion that the promos and the planting of Woes ipo
really toed to incenses the fall of rain. In support of
this doubt I leave Wien yea that throeglieut the late
thirty year' during shake considerable einest al timber
has been moored Iron arable lead and by the grabbing
up sad removal of hedge Awe sad oopplom that the rain.
fail has incemeed sad not dienialabed that In the era tea
yeses A the. thirty there was lase rian than in Ate second
by Wu. on the manual seems and that daring the lest ten
years there has been as =map yearly fall cC hi.. more
than the preceding &Aide, to which and to the lower
temperature thereby cocaseamod, may to attributed our
disalaisked corn .arope, tad partlcularly wheat, and at the
IMO the greater certainty of the most crops. I have
oleo called your attention to the fact that the cosiom
of reaming Use rainfall of the year as bagiaalag on tha
illest of January haa Mill•Witat lad us AAA, fir the
agrioulturel year rear begins after the barred is over
and should be ',shooed from the beginning of October, for
on the weather during the autumnal varier depends
whether the next wheel arop la put A well or oihsrwloa,
and whether prepinetioss for the spring and mama,
crops ars forwardisd. lithe wombs, cciathines = dry
en hint= if oa thothe Wed hotbresrlieutid we bar. and the :
amps,di"
growth
glies
tte raln,
gkicaailtWint -Utz Prxr-u— .2
Is mow arruissd, and tbs wheat goes 142:
U. however. the own is falownibla with rain
but not too man wlthadkilatt Iles weather to .
=
sawn aultlystin tbs whustsibe In wall hr Ohs
the year tho farmer by Obilehmaig Ikaa awn' his pass
manatal Antery, Wley thee may we irk *nil St
agricultural year be reckoned tram the in si Jaavary f
fa the 11M plus I haveagwesball womb' sin of yes
were well aware of, Ole Royal Agrioultsral
floaleelf might have beenls Ito fug In le* that
the fours or otherwise of thallarodp arep mainly depends
on the rainfall In tbs man If leak an tin cosine=
sad thy Ave* Of Misters tal=illys the three
rogoring months, wain inn& be very a
You am all well awes* that it h owing to the sots=
Ito be= earth that the quick ad poweeful Atom of super-
=bais prhacipaßm y d. It does net haatea the
ti,lni A the "Ad, which is simply dna to moisture
Itself, Ai as soon as the bit roOtl3oll are sent off,
It supplies the food the infant that really wash the phos-
phate of lime is a =able shate =doh beak up the
skeleton of the leaven pashas An pleat Into
ru
leaf, and A ambles it acquire the hm food whichte
atmosphere is ready to supply. It therefore not only
supplier the food Itself 144 respired but enables the pleat
to acquire other food =oily aricamary. • small saisaat
of rain is afficlant for the WPM banns the best asnlis
la a soluble oiadlttoa sad sok=gle it Is again podia* nu-
trails fit by the Wird ft Asia
distributed lath* sad rudysilibastosehut ....1/
by the aid al see loath the af snisluta
otherwise Is N
of AILS. This
to._ is produesdi,_bir the
irkratkaaral W, ssiTprelaseserthlic:
assieening with some parties of the limo Weetee the
rwastadar cosbind with all p= sad
that hiphasphaes is la • soluble stabs, erdlezzerna
earth is ineolohle, requiring the el
the acids la the son to eenvertines food. Although
boas earth I. so @mental. that U, La IMO Watauga we
supply that slow. his Isere likely to Pradkia a seed mop
than if we supply adios. coselitant Meath I haws
always ocatao It Is aa resat isassassay Was* the
whole ist • state a ty. now pin aps mad that
a di. quantity of WSW yheepirke..hAng sailliffed. the
remainder In visa Is aims anmismanielalie le lipitkeLty_
nsatual, and the sunk of isnelindat la
to he ism
_tasilarius if Ali plensapia"74
=ries lateThatalVial slt=';lltbl6 is
themes of
..,,,, d
bone _ea
is.
I.terabosse_biliessteed Mem
quits •
different thin, sad own lb naParatisely high_ prim to
false prstseicsa, sasbibii manufacture., sad olaie.Lll
mem ifs =bate mili t " dissolved bones."
rest Misolved bias say sot coatala so muck 501174
pinnate as saes mistral prods*, yet IA Petat of fact,
sad nth nelsrace Is its nen. all Its yibasplittss are
peadisaltly nab& an sastwartated with throe organic
and simasaisisl pantals whin .0 qestlladd to its
mine gad gligeblee la its ImOnSifig reeeM Now 03 get
a /sad Ent gm we mine Ma less than a rainfall of two
lashes dubs asek if the sessussr aniths, and that
twiny wanly distribute& That Is, • Slag fuer banes In
sea of than scathe will not sasapisistme the abets*
of all rola la swam. Ns machassperar bean nes
mess swig. int= tin la order tin la
ths OM plies Ur vagglate sad apply
re 11. if thilmisi=iirletrilliFarris—ssak
anadalatersh if Isha Is •
nab. ths slissasiczAirsisiliaisstavaa II
one gamed thssaaaribusisms spdvalsat.
I abeam that Yea have had rsassar diessmiga la
your dab • eaWalit
_6llOllllllll Ida that Wars
ps Tu.. the clan af some. _ II le • tart old salazei
dthbusivir:oret:Uourwitabeal....._4..wlsfariankiiamilW]:,Hinallia:lawalikafirs;:tshr t.riatchlieelsitsobstmemmtibothatmc:fiselLinTeof
• =al sad itzor of aremania. sad in
many lassabsta of dultadpadaswa Tows Conan, who
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have ban hroaght woven lan inkniaststy snug In
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Rai gonoons. nitro. Iritalorotn.• Evapor.
ties. lion.In. Intim. Inches. per Cut par Coon
-- --.-- --
Jan. ... 1647 0.660 131 70? 40.3
Feb. ... 1.071 0.414 1.647 784 11.6
Marsh ... 1.617 0.610 1 077 666 33.4
Apr Ll... LOB 1.154 0.306 21.0 710
May ... 1.1556 1.716 0108 5. 8 941
June ... 3.113 1.174 0 030 1. 7 903
July . . 11.187 1.1145 0 043 1. 8 FS 1
Amain_ LOC 1391 0.036 1. 4 16
BoR ... 1.619 1970 0.106 139 861
Oct. ... 1 8113 140 1.400 495 505
Nov. ... 3.837 0.579 3 IFS 84.9 15 I
Dee. ... 1641. 0161 1.805 1860 00.0
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of 8 } 614, 15.330 11.401 41.4 57.6
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