Several of your Northern and Western subscribers who read the communication I published in the AGRICULTURIST in January last, giving a synopsis of the climate of the Manatee region during the year 1880, and which was reproduced in my recently published book, "Notes from Sunland," have requested me to publish in your journal a statement of the thermometer, rainfall etc., in Braidentown for the year 1881. I have furnished the desired information as briefly as possible: TEMPERATURE. Average temperature at 6 o'clock A. M., 71-1/8° Average temperature at 12 o'clock M., 83° Average temperature at 6 o'clock P. M., 78-3/4° Highest temperature at 12 o'clock M., July 7th and August 4th, 96° Lowest temperature at 6 o'clock, A. M., January 26th and November 25th, 44° ==========+=========+=======+==========+===== | |Days on|Cloudy and| | | which |Partially | | | Rain | Cloudy |Clear |Rainfall.| Fell. | Days |Days. ----------+---------+-------+----------+----- January, |5-1/8 in.| 12 | 17 | 14 February, |2-1/2 in.| 4 | 6 | 22 March, |2-1/2 in.| 5 | 8 | 23 April, |2-1/4 in.| 3 | 5 | 25 May, |2-3/4 in.| 5 | 9 | 22 June, |6-1/4 in.| 8 | 12 | 18 July, |4-1/2 in.| 17 | 22 | 9 August, |5-1/2 in.| 11 | 22 | 9 September,|4-3/4 in.| 12 | 19 | 12 October, |1-1/2 in.| 5 | 7 | 24 November, |2-1/4 in.| 5 | 11 | 19 December, |2-1/4 in.| 8 | 18 | 12 ----------+---------+-------+----------+----- Total, | 42-1/8 | 95 | 156 |209 ----------+---------+-------+----------+----- When the difference of rainfall for the years 1880 and '81 is taken into consideration, the equability of the temperature for the two years is a surprising and strange coincidence, there being less than one degree Fahrenheit in the average temperature of the two years. The rainfall for the year 1881 was 18 inches below the average on the Gulf coast, which is 60 inches, the difference between the years 1880 and '81 being 27-1/2 inches; that of 1880 being 9-1/2 inches in excess of the average rainfall. Although we had, comparatively speaking, no "rainy season" last year, vegetation and crops have not suffered from drouth. The vegetable gardeners hereabout were never more sanguine of large crops. Cucumbers, squashes, and turnips have already been shipped by them to New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and tomatoes in abundance will follow next month. Several truckmen from Fairbanks and other places on the Transit Railroad are this year engaged in raising early vegetables in the hammocks bordering the Manatee.