The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-09-21


Consspoudeuce Boston Globe.
While every one 10 speaking Of the present
season q being remarkable In it, chsracter>
istics, have gathered for yourresders some
reliable facts of tho year 1910, known -
''tbc year without summer" Few persons
now living can recollcct It, but 1t wss the
coolest year ever known throughout Europe
and America. The following il . brief sb'
stract Of the weather during each month OF
the year:
January was mild, 70 much 10 % to render
fires almost needless 10 parlors. December
previous Was very cold.
February was not very cold with the cx-
csption of . few days. It was mild, like its
predecessor.
March was cold and l,oisterous during the
first part of t.; the remainder was mild.
A great frcshet on the Ohio and Ken
lucky Rivers caused great loss OF prop
erty.
April began warm, but grew colder as the
month advanced, and ended with snow and
ice and temperature more like Winter than
Spring.
Nay was more remarkable for frowns than
smiles. Buds and fruits were frozen ice
formed half an inch thick corn killed, and
the fields again and again repIanted until
deemed too late.
June was the coolest ever known in this
latitude. Frost. ice and snow were COM
mon. Almost every green thing killed. Fruit
nearly oil destroyed. Snow fell to the depth
of ten inches in Vermont, several In Maine,
three 10 the interior of New York, and also
IN Massachusetts,. Considerable damage
was done At New Orleans in consequence of
the rapid rise of the river; the suburbs were
covered with " stcr, and the roads were Only
passsble with boais.
July was accompanied by fros. and ice.
On the 9Th ice was formed of the thickness
of common window glass throughout New
England, New York and some parts Of
Pennsylvania. Indian corn WAS nearly oil
destroyed some favors,ly situated fields
escaped. This WAS true Of some of the hill
farms Of Massachusetts.
August was more cherries. IL possible,
than the summer months already passed.
Ice vas formed half IN inch thick. Ind on
corn was 50 frozen that the great part Wa
cut down and dried for fodder. Almost
every green thing was destroyed both in this
country and IN Europe. Papers received
from England stale THAT it would he re-
mcmbered by the present generation that
the year 1916 was year in which there was
no Summer" Very little corn ripened IN
the New England and Middle States. Farm
ers supplied themselves from the corn pro
duccd in 1915 for the seed of the Spring OF
1917. It sold at from four 10 five dollars ,
bushcl
September furnished about two weeks O1
the mildest weather of the season. Soor
after the middle it became very cold ant
frosty ice formed y quarter Of an incl
thick.
October produced more than Its sha5c o.
cold weather frost and ice in common.
November Was cold and clustering. Snow
fell 20 q to make good sleigbing.
| December was mild and comfortable
The above Il brief summary Of the ''colt
Summer of 1915" ~ It was called. in orde
to distinguish It from the cold season. TIL
Winter was mild. Frost and ice were com
mon in every month Of the year. Very littl
vegetation matured in the Eastern and Mid
die States. The suns rays seemed to b
destitute Of heat throughout the summer
oil nature was clad In table hue, and mel
exhibited no little anxiety concerning tn
future of this life
The average Wholesale price ofss6our dur
ing that year, in the Philadelphia market
was thirteen dollars per barrel. The aver
age price of wheat In England was ninety
three shillings per quarter.