Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1868-02-14
BOARD or AaRIcULrUHI.


Pr~sid~ns IN the chair. Journal Of yes,er
day read and approved.
Mr.. Brown. from the Commiitee on Role.
add Orders. presented 6naireport. propos.
ing several amendments to shs sszs- Il
wss discussed At some length. and after
v.rsls rs.ommilted vish Instructions.
Mr.. Chamberlain. from The Business Com
ninss. prs.ssssd the following topic 10,
discsssioa:
'.F1as any considerable change taker
place in our climate in the Last City years
anil IL 50, to What cause or causes 10 ii &c
BE astribusede What are ,he evideoces?'
In order TO elicit ~ many facts ~ posi-
bic upon this SUI ject. the Board GENT into
Informal Session, in order 10 i've al pres
ent IN opportunity Of contributing their
mite Of information. and Hon Mr.. Prince Of
Androscoggin. vss called to the chair.
INFORMAL SESSION.
Mr.. Putnam Of Aroostook, said he moved
into thai county ia 1891. and st that time
corn vas planted but little. and wheat N
sosn hate. Vas often killed by the frost
The county vas subject to very ea,iy fro.,s
st that time. In 1881 be planted little
corn the 2d Of June. and it vas nearly all
destroyed by irosi August 18th The great
est expectation he entertained in regard 10
growing corn when be FIRST vent into the
county. vas that he could get IL so j, would
do to eat grcsn-as boiled and roasted.
Nov corn is regarded a. . sure crop. if
planted carly, and il does not fail once in
eight or ten years. IL is usually planted
from the 18th 10 the 2o'h Of May. In conse-
quence Of the clearing up OF the forests he
believed there was not 90 much rain ~ there
was thirty years ago. Neither were tb.
SHOWS - deep for the ten or twelve years
last past. - for tbe same number OF years
before that period. Though, the ,hermom-
eier did not 60 SO Low as it did thirty year.
sgo. The county did not. ss . general
thing suffer from drought, and he believed
tina, should the forests be cleared Tor twenty
years to come TO the extent they had for
the twenty years past. With the same amount
OF RAIN iall as now, here would still be no
injGr, from dtouth. The past season. which
IN many parts Of the State was anus nsllv
wet. was no; so ia his county lie ,houghi
there was not 90 much water in the streams
As formerly. and thar the changes in tenn
p' nature wrre more sudden. He did not
remember that the thermometer had ranged
so low for thirty years. as during the pas,
season
MIR Holmes said that he bad resided in
kenn.tec county thirty Years. and in Ok.
ford countv.-his present r-idenec-thirty
years. He believed in lat- years the SEA.
sons were shorter and colder. especially IN
the spring There was less time to get in
seed. In 1861 corn wss killed by frost in
k-nnehec county but with this exec piion
ihs crop has usually ripen.d. He thought
the county of Oxford more subject TO early
irosts than the county OF Kenn~hec.
Mr. S,ackpolc said be hal lived in Pc
nobsco, county rhir,y-fvc years. and be-
had noticed as The land became cleared the
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