Worcester daily spy., 1872-08-19
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y correspondent VI lIG DOStOu OiOUt NiittSs
While every one is speaking of the present
season as being remarkable in its Characters
tics, have gathered for your readers some relia-
bic facts Of the year 1916, known as "the year
without Il summer" Few persons now living
can recollect it, but twas the coolest ever known
through Europe and America. The following IS
brief abstract of the weather during each
month Of the year:
January was mild, so much so as to render
fires almost needless in parlors December pre-
YiOus was very cold.
February was not very cold; with the excep-
ton of a few days it was mild, like its prede-
cessor.
March was cold and boisterous during the
first part of it; the remainder was mild. A great
freshet on the Ohio and Kentucky rivers caused
great loss of property.
April began warm, but grew colder as the
month advanced, and ended with snow and ice
and temperature more like winter than spring.
May was more remarkable for irowns than
smiles Buds and fruits were frozen; ice formed
half an inch thick; corn killed, and the fields
again and again replanted until deemed too late.
June was the coolest ever known in this lati-
tude. Frost, ice and snow were common. Al
most every green thing killed. Fruit nearly all
destroyed. Snow fell to the depth of ten inches
in Vermont several in Maine, three in the in
terror Of New York, and also in Massachusetts.
Considerable damage was done at New Orleans
in consequence of the rapid rise of the river /;
roads were only passable with boats.
July was accompanied by frost and ice. On
the fifth, ice was formed of the thickness of
common window glass, throughout New Eng
land, New York and some parts of Pennsyl-
vana Indian corn was nearly all destroyed
some favorably situated fields escaped. This
was true Of some of the hill-farms of Massachu-
sets.
August was more cherries, if possible, than
| the summer months already passed. Ice was
| formed half an inch thick Indian corn was so
| frozen that the great part was cut down and
| dried for fodder. Almost every green thing
was destroyed, both in this country and in
| Europe. Papers received from England state
| "that it would be remembered by the present
| generation, that the year 1916 was year in
| which there was no summer. Very little corn
| rpened in the New England and middle states.
| Farmers supplied themselves from the corn
| produced in 1915 for the seed of the spring OF
| 1917. 1t sold at from four to five dollars per
| buShe
September furnished about two;weeks of the
| mildest weather of the season. Soon alter the
| middle, ii became very cold and frosty; ice
| formed a quarter of an inch thick.
| October produced more than its share of cold
| weather; frost and ice in common.
November was cold and clustering. Snow fell
| so as to make good sleighing.
December was mild and comfortable.
| The above is brief summary of "the cold
| summer of 1916" as it was called, in order to
| distinguish it from the cold season. The winter
| was mild. Frost and ice were common in every
month Of the year. Very little vegetation ma.
tured in the eastern and middle states. ThC
SUMS rays seemed to be destitute of heat through
out the summer; all nature was clad in sable
| hue, and men exhibited no little anxiety con
cerning the future of this life.
| The average wholesale price of -four during
| that year. in the Philadelphia market, was thir-
teen dollars per barrel. The average price o.
| wheat in England was ninety-three shillings
| per quarter"