...rainfall, and state of weather at the Station and for the State during the year, and a grand summary for 30 years. Table X gives the date of the last killing...the spring-, and the first killing frost in autumn, also the number of times the mercury fell below zero in each winter month since 1894. Table XI gives...

...rainfall, and state of weather at the Station and for the State during the year, and a grand summary for 29 years. Table X gives the date of the last killing...the spring, and the first killing frost in autumn, also the number of times the mercury fell below zero in each winter month since 1894. Table XI gives...

...reach maturity. FIG. 12.— Map of the southeastern United States, showing the average dates ot Ihe last killing frost in the spring and the first killing frost in the autumn. The three sets of lines represent (he approximate northern limit of the late, medium-early,...

...at about 25 stations in middle Tennessee during a jieriod of from 11 to 30 years and showing average date of the last killing frost in the spring and the first in the fall, average length of growing season, mean temperature, and rainfall, is given. Some climatic...

...which are given, in the following two charts. THE GROWING SEASON The average date for a number of years of the last killing frost in the spring and the first killing frost in the fall limits the growing season for any section of country of such crops as corn, potatoes and such...

...with an elevation nowhere about six hundred feet above tide, have a growing season ranging between the last killing frost in the spring and the first killing frost in the fall of 200 days, while in the same altitude, on Somerset county, at an elevation of 2,200 feet,...

...s « « 2 S ° JiJ o 6s H 4 SHZ v *! S ^a GROWING SEASOX. The growing season is the period between the last killing frost in the spring and the first killing frost in the autumn. The general limits of it are five months, from the 1st of May to the 1st of October. The...

..." northers " in the winter months and occasional wind storms. A long growing season occurs between the last killing frost in the spring and the first killing frost in the fall, the average dates being March 26 and November 14, respectively. Farm work may be carried...

...impossible. The method of determining this length of the growing season is to add the number of days between the last killing frost in the spring and the first killing frost of autumn. 61. The application of this idea to our local flora range has brought out some interesting...

...sunny. Since the growing period is very long, from 5 to 6 1-2 months, a most important consideration is the date of the last killing frost in the spring and the first in the fall. The cotton pJant is peculiarly susceptible to frost. All the conditions favorable to cotton...