Excerpt from Fifty-First Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture: Together With the Sixteenth Annual Report of the Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1903 The weather during March was very pleasant, although unseasonal, and some of its elements were phenomenal. The precipitation was largely in excess, the monthly amounts being from 1143 to 2 inches above the normal. The snowfall was, however, unusually light, and at the close of the month there was none on the ground. The monthly mean temper ature was the highest of Official record, covering a period of thirty-two years, and averaged 100 above the normal for March. According to authentic records covering a period of a hundred years, the month was the warmest of its name within a century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.