. Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama ... fthe mild weather andeven temperature prevailing in thissection, yet do not give sufficientinformation to the man coming herefor the purpose of farming and gar-dening. It is not enough for himto know the normal weather con-ditions. The intelligent tiller of thesoil in choosing a location must takeinto consideration the unusual andabnormal meteorological phenom-enons, as they are apt to appearin any region. He has to countwith wind and hail storms, latefrosts, droughts, or a strong and con- tinuous rainfall, all of which willnaturally have a big in
. Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama ... fthe mild weather andeven temperature prevailing in thissection, yet do not give sufficientinformation to the man coming herefor the purpose of farming and gar-dening. It is not enough for himto know the normal weather con-ditions. The intelligent tiller of thesoil in choosing a location must takeinto consideration the unusual andabnormal meteorological phenom-enons, as they are apt to appearin any region. He has to countwith wind and hail storms, latefrosts, droughts, or a strong and con- tinuous rainfall, all of which willnaturally have a big influence uponthe failure or success of his intelligent person, of course,knows such meteorological disturb-ances make their appearance more orless in every section of this countryand for that matter all over the worldand it would be a false policy toclaim an entire absence of them forthis section. But these disturbances,with the exception of late frosts, hap-pen here so seldom, and are of suchlight nature, that it is scarcely worth. FARMfHOUSES IN JEFFERSON COUNTY while to mention them. Lossesthrough wind or hail-storms are al-most unknown here. Late frosts inMarch or in the first half of Aprilhappen oftener. In spite of the latterfact, however, very few of the nativefarmers think it necessary to provideagainst such frosts as they do in theNorth and West as the losses accruingfrom them are proportionally smallin most instances. The average tem-perature of the short winters fromDecember to February is 47 degrees,therefore is a little higher yet than the April and October temperature ofthe Northern frontier states. Freezingweather changes with mild tempera-ture in proportion of three days ofcold weather to six warm days. Themonthly rainfall in winter is fiveinches, during an average of ten daysin each month. Snow is almost un-known. March in this section cor-responds with the month of May inthe Northern States with a middlingtemperature of 56 degrees and anormal rainfa
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