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KOREA
HYDROMETRICAL RECORD
| YEARS | RAINFALL | SNOWFALL | TOTAL | FOG | RAIN | SNOW |
| inches | ||||||
| 1887 | 30.86 | 2.00 | 32.86 | 13d 3h | 19d 17h | 4d 2h |
| 1888 | 20.91 | 2.15 | 23.06 | 14d 5h | 12d 6h | 3d 3h |
| 1889 | 28.18 | 0.91 | 29.09 | 25d 13h | 25d 5h | 5d 9h |
| 1890 | 47.00 | 1.06 | 48.06 | 12d 18h | 27d 10h | 0d 64h |
| 1891 | 41.04 | 1.66 | 41.70 | 13d 5h | 30d 20h | 3d 7h |
| 1892 | 34.04 | 1.20 | 35.24 | 15d 20h | 16d 10h | 4d 6h |
| 1893 | 50.64 | 3.55 | 54.19 | 31d 5h | 36d 6h | 8d 11h |
| 1894 | 31.81 | 0.64 | 32.45 | 33d 18h | 21d 9h | 1d 8h |
| 1895 | 31.88 | 2.06 | 33.94 | 32d 7h | 29d 11h | 6d 17h |
| 1896 | 31.08 | 5.15 | 36.23 | 51d 7h | 27d 0h | 2d 0h |
| 1897 | 48.35 | 3.23 | 51.58 | 24d 5h | 31d 17h | 4d 18h |
| 1898 | 37.80 | 4.73 | 42.53 | 31d 14h | 29d 19h | 5d 15h |
| 1899 | 25.07 | 2.05 | 27.12 | ——— | 18d 19h | 1d 3h |
| 1900 | 29.14 | 0.83 | 29.97 | ——— | 21d 2h | 0d 20h |
| 1901 | 7.09 | 0.06 | 7.15 | 7d 5h | 3d 7h | 2d 0h |
I give, also, the rainfall during the years 1898-1901, at the period when a plenteous rain is of supreme importance to the rice industry:
| Year | June | July | August | Total |
| 1898 | 4.5 | 10.0 | 11.0 | 25.5 |
| 1899 | 8.5 | 7.5 | 6.7 | 22.7 |
| 1900 | 2.0 | 6.2 | 4.5 | 12.7 |
| 1901 | 0.3 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 4.1 |
In a rice-growing country such as this is, it is essential that an adequate supply of rain should fall during the three summer months to allow of the seed-rice being transplanted and to ensure the maturing of the grain. In 1901, owing to the lack of water, the bulk of the seed-rice was never transplanted at all. It simply withered away.
It is, of course, inevitable that one of the immediate
