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UNDER this title the Weather Bureau of the Department of Agriculture has published a bulletin containing a discussion of the observations obtained from the longest and most trustworthy rainfall registers in the United States, accompanied by annual, seasonal, and other charts. In addition to the usual tables of the mean monthly and annual precipitation, arranged according to geographical distribution, an important departure has been made by separately discussing the rainfall of the crop-growing season; for, as the author remarks, however valuable a knowledge of the water supply throughout the year may be, information as to the amount of rainfall available for agricultural purposes is possibly of greater oconsequence.
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Rainfall of the United States. Nature 57, 348 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057348a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/057348a0