Excerpt from Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture: Together With the Eighth Annual Report of the State Agricultural Experiment Station, 1890 Twenty-eight halos were observed; 79 per cent were accompanied by storm within twenty four hours. And 61 per cent within forty-eight hours after the occurrence of the halo. The rainfall was a trifle above the average for fifty years, as recorded at Amherst College. The temperature was also above the mean for the same time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.