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Excerpt from Abbreviated Hand-Book of Virginia The salt air from the surrounding sea and the high temperature of the gulf-stream make the climate milder and less liable to frost than other localities much further south. The State weather service of the Department of Agriculture, at Bird's Nest, reports monthly average temperature for year ending 30th November, 1892, 58.1; monthly total precipitation for the same period, 46.80 inches; average monthly precipitation, 3.90 inches. The soil of this section is a light sandy loam, warm and easily tilled; the sub-soil is red clay. Corn and oats were long the staple crops of the Eastern Shore; but with the unsurpassed facilities for marketing small fruits and vegetables, the latter industry has come to be the principal one. This region is one of the principal market gardens for the great cities of the north. The climate is pleasant and salubrious, the salt air being wafted over the Peninsula from almost every point of the compass. Transportation communication with market is by steamboat and sailing vessels. A fine line of steamers plies regularly between this county and Baltimore. In this way the staple crops, the sweet and Irish potatoes, the onions, peas, cabbages and other vegetables, and the small fruits, are sent to the markets of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, bringing an annual return to the producers of a million and a half of dollars. 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."