| Show IDAHO WEATHER the week ending monday july 1898 opened with heavy alsi and copious showers folio followed gred gre d clear weather eather with an abend abundance hot sunshine and f frequent h winds the rains were og 0 inestimable tie f fit t to dry land crops which had fi greatly in need of moisture bubel materially with haying ag of the cut crop was waa damaged an and standing hay was badly ad lodged ed many places in the extreme am eastern section the rainfall W was K ively light and the drou been only partly relieved grain is for the most part in e lent condition and promises mor an average crop in parts of ahlo th ern em section wheat will soon be for harvest the potato crop to Is tsa nicely and many early pota fine quality are on the market fl den truck is in good condition gei ly the fruit crop is doing ws well ting of the first crop of lucern ia 10 ing completion all hay crops crop northern and western section apparently short but in the they are fully up to the aver av d crop of lucern to Is growing well mgt D P mccallum gl section director ibe month opened cloudy and cold with almost daily frosts and in some kaarta k temperatures below the freezing r loftt rain in varying amounts fell rie er ally rally on the and 2nd and followed MW a period ot of dry and somewhat warmer weather until the alth which i the few following days constitute fc lvery very wet period more settled con s and exceedingly warm weather Kw ailed led for the most part during the ader of the month with excel of the and on which sated afat rainfall was reported a at t a num of stations light frosts occurred the close of the itta few w places about v mops crops were retarded more or less by arly ay cool weather but the warm and tempe temperatures matures following S sed rapid growth growt h and by the close tp tb atle e period all vegetation was fully to the season dry land crops ab h sever several times mes threatened with t have received more moisture season I 1 on than usual and june d them much improved over the i time me last year wherever water ater was turned upon all crops as aa a result all irrigated vega vegetation tation excellent condition grain ad id wonderfully and reports almost ut ot exception indicate a large crop t potatoes and garden stuff through the month in good con all varieties are ready for use ft thrived and at the end of june a berry aberry season was at its height first jurat crop of lucern has sutured mutu red lag is in progress ranges are and stock doing well e mean temperature for the state degrees 1 16 6 degrees warmer june of last year the highest aly y mean temperature was at te degrees and the lowest degrees the highest temore reached during the month was agrees tg ees rees at nampa on the and fewest st 23 at Marys marksville marysville ville on the 2nd and istok an absolute range of 79 degrees tse tim month the greatest local range of temperature was 70 at Marys marksville marysville ville and the least es at lakeview Lake view average precipitation was inches less than that of ma the greatest amount was bow baket inches and the I 1 at Marys marksville marysville ville inches the t amount in any 24 hour period at downey inches on the ath average number of days with inches or more of precipitation 6 days 16 partly cloudy 9 and 9 ling wind direction south hourly velocity from records 0 o 0 falls and nampa 91 miles um mm hourly velocity at idaho 46 miles from the southwest on |
