Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1919-05-19
DRY ANPDL
NOT MUCH; BU
Mays Record Ruined 4 10 Inches
Rainfall This Month. No
Clear Skies
MORE RAIN rs PROMISED

A dry Annapolisg Net SO you can
notice IL Everything II soaked
threugh and through. and the month
Uf hitherto beautiful, aowery May has
put itself inso the wet column and
then some.
1t has rained some part OF ffteen
days out al seventeen. and Saturdays
thunder. lightning and rain storm
capped the climax Indeed there
was q series OF storms. and some peo-
pie lost count after four Or ave sue
Ecessiye storms, It Is estimated that
.03 3rfnches OF rain fell bringing the ag-
Eerage rain for the month up to 4.I2
Inches
The average rainfall for May. nor
mally. ais shown BY the records of she
weather bureau for some 80 years past.
is 356 inches But this fact has had
no astraining Influence apon the ele-
menfs during the completed half of
the present month Already the rain
has descended 10 the total of 4f2
inches and TIC eal III not yet. The
weather man ii authority for the pre-
dIction that there will be more show
ers today
Which just about ruins the splendid
record May has had in poetic circles
for smiling skies and balnly zephyrs u
The sky has done precious little smil-
ing and the baImy zephyrs have been
notabIy absent As matter Of fact
there has been less sunshine this
month than any previous May Ii the
records Of the local weather bureau
Ordinarily. Old Sol has 81 per cent
batting average during this period Of
the year. meaning that he has bright
ened the lives of the inhabitants here
about for that proportion Of the total
number of hours sunshine would be
possible. Just now he is performing
on feeble IS per cent basis
What CoolHess Accounted Fer
This is responsible for the absence
of that comforting warmth which
spring il supposed to bring to chilled
humanity The temperature during
this month should average 64.2 de-
grees, bat the thermometer has ex-
Ihibfted no ambition to maintain such
an average during the past IS days.
| iii has made few half lf-hearted ef-
forts to reach that desirable altitude,
but with indifferent success And there
lis no immediate prospect Of change
FOR the better The weather man TIM
Idly suggests moderate tenaperature@
with cloudy weather, showers tonight
and Tuesday 4 but III not courageous
| warmth
The net result OF these abnormal
conditions ii q very much delayed
green vegetable season Some Of the
amateur gardeners who were willing
| to gamble with nature hopefully burr
1 led some very nice seed, but It long
since became discouraged and yielded
Iup the ghost. Thesc0id, damp ground
Twas more favorable for decomposition
/ than for budding life It therefore be-
hooves these enterprising tillers Of
the soil to get busy and do il all over
again.
Planting DELAYED
The really and truly farmer has not
been deceived. Experience has taught
| him that he gains no time by getting
| his crops In the ground too early. The
18Th 81 May Ii the dead line for the
agricuIturisf and he seldom does any
planting previous to that date, except
where early products, such as lettuce,
can be started. With present weather
conditions continuing, however and
the 18th Df the month already history,
Eli il likely that planting will be still
longer delayed In the hope that more
favorable conditions will develop. PIT
has been found that plants set out
later, but under favorable conditions,
viii frequently oyertake earlier plant
ings and give i better yield