Mean temperature of each month from April to September, 1853, at various stations in the United States.

Some notice of actual consequences upon production, for the present year, should properly be appended here. It is obvious, however, that in presenting statements of these results, we are liable to introduce some measure of the very error sought to be avoided by this comparison of well-determined climatic facts. What may appear conclusive,

at the time of publication in local journals, perhaps proves partial or overcolored at a later period.

At the present time the mass of these results is very well known, however, and they may be generally stated as corroborative of the indications of the investigation just given. The English and foreign grain harvest suffered the greatest losses; and the consequences so clearly foreshadowed at the close of July, and known, or possible to be known, by attention to the temperature measurements received at that time. from England and Northern Europe, with some definiteness even at that time, were realized in a very severe measure. Some notices of a general character will add to the force of the statement of this purely climatological result.

The tone of the following notices is uniformly sustained by all the statements of results there, at their dates, of which large numbers of instances are at hand:

"The reports from all parts of the kingdom agree in stating that the deficiency in wheat will be very serious. Several instances have come to our own knowledge, in which, upon threshing the produce of a given number of acres, the yield has scarcely exceeded half the quantity obtained from the same land in good average seasons; the deficiency, taking the kingdom collectively, will certainly amount to one-fourth, if not a third, and we shall unquestionably require to import very largely."-London Mercantile Gazette, Sept. 6.

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Harvest prospects are now the subject of anxiety and speculationa subject intensely interesting to all classes alike. As a general statement, the crop may be pronounced bad for this period of the season. It will be found to hold, as a general rule, that a late harvest is a deficient one, and this season will prove no exception. The common report on this point is, that the crop is short, both as respects straw and grain; in some districts we find it set down at two-thirds of an average. Ou the whole, the prospects of the harvest are precarious, and an average return can hardly now be reckoned upon. And, as it is, there is no alarm throughout the country, and no excitement, save what prevails among dealers in grain, regarding our food prospects, notwithstanding the unpromising nature of the weather. The world is now before us, from which to obtain supply and make up our lack. The latest advices from the Continent speak of a defective harvest there as well as in this country, and the upward movement of the past week in Mark Lane has been chiefly caused by a large export demand for shipments to France, where the crop is said to have turned out worse than it is at all likely to do here."-London Correspondence of Sept. 27,

The Agricultural Gazette and Gardeners' Chronicle gives, in January, 1854, the following summary of results of the British harvest, collected with great care, through a general effort early entered upon by the agricultural interest. It is valuable for both the positive and comparative results it embodies, and illustrates the actual condition of British agriculture, as well as the climatological results of an unusually disastrous year: