Excerpt from North Carolina Agricultural Statistics: 1970 Annual Temperature averages over 1970 took an upward swing. The past several years have been significantly colder than averages over a long period of years, and 1969 was one among the coldest. Except for an extremely cold January, 1970 fell into a more normal pattern of temper ature, and the year turned out to be the warmest of the past five. Both June and July had some hundred-degree weather, and both August and September had temperatures in the upper nineties. Nevertheless, the average temperature for 1970 was still below normals based on a thirty-year average. High yields for small grains show that 1970 weather was good for crop development during the early part of the year, while good yields of cotton follow expectations for that dry-weather crop. Mid-season crops such as tobacco, peanuts and sweet potatoes also fared well. On the other hand, late - summer crops such as soybeans did not produce as well as in other recent years, and harvesting was hampered by damp weather in late October and early November. The possible effect of weather on corn blight conditions which developed in 1970 has not been completely determined. 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.