Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1904 — April Net Much Good. [ARTICLE]

April Net Much Good.

April 1904, as shown by the local Weather Bureau records, was a cold, wet and backward month, and ended with farm work of alt kinds much behind what it usually is, practically nothing done in the gardening line, and foliage, bnds and blossoms but little in evidence.

There was 4| inches of rain, and which fell on 13 different days. This was a large amount of rain and rainy weather, but it came bunched together, to speak, so that there were three long rainy spells and three long dry spells during the month. The highest temperature was 78 degrees, the lowest 23, and the greatest daily range 35. There were 14 clear days, 8 partly clear and 8 wholly cloudy. The prevailing wind was northerly. As compared with April of last year, which was a bad one, also, if anyone remembers, this April was about 30 per cent drier, 12 per cent, cooler and 8 per cent- more sunshine.