The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-09-28
a F~nr without a Summer.

A cprI siJ'nd"nf u, the Bo- on GtOb6 write:
W'i'e every one L. spe king of the esent
3" 'sot "einp rem rkahle IN its characte stics,
.s,hered 90 YOUR re- dcrs some reliable
:. = the We + 1916 kn w ~ "the year with.
81 GUNNER Few rsrs"os now living can
- CT it, ont it was TIE coolest -ver known
;hron Europe ana America The following is
br abstract Of the weather during each
mon h Of the ye-r:
jar uary WAS mild, 50 much SO as to render
fires elmost unnecessary n pnrlors. December
prev Ius WAS very cold
February was not very cold i; with the exceI.
tion CT q few days. it midi. like is predeces
ser
Morch was cold and hi-'erous during the
FIRST IT of 1t; the rem ,ii er was mild. A
I srea "shet on the Ohio and Kentucky rivers
urr-ri .r4,t loss OF property.
April hega, warm, but grew colder AS the
moth ntvAnced, and ended with snow and ice
AID : temperature more like winter than
spring.
Nay wac remark hle for irowns than
,mlies Buds and fruits were frozen; ice formed
b It n inch thick; corn IS killed, and the
fled" r'"'H and again replan.ed until deemed
tlr l,to
JuA - tive coolest ever known in this lati.
jnde vt &C. and Snow were common Al.
mos. cen thing killed. Fruit nearly all
Ie-tr, sea. Snow fell 10 TIE depth of tn inches
N Ve'mor several in Maine, three H. me inte.
'ior Of n; y York. and also in Massachusetts,
Consi!rr4' dam re was done ~ New Orleans
in sequ nee &C the rapid rise Of the river
The suburb We. covered with water, and the
r""'s were only paasable with boete.
July was accompanied by frost nd ice. Or
the 9th ice formed OF the thickness of a com.
mon window glass tbroug CHOU New England,
New York, and some parts of Pennsylv In.
dian corn was nearly all destroyed some favor
ably situated fields escaped This was true of
the hill farms of Massachusetts,.
August WAS more cherries, if possible than
the summer months ready passed. Indian
corn was 80 frozen that the greater part was
cut down and dried for fodder. Almost every.
thing green was destroyed, both in this country
and Europe. Papers received from England
state "that it would be remembered by the pres
ent generation that the year 1916 was year in
which there was no summer" Very little corn
ripened in the New England and Middle States
Farmers supplied themselves from the corn
produced in 1913 for the seed of the spring of
1917. 1t sold at from 81 to S. per bushel.
September furnished about two weeks of the
mildest weather of the season. Soon after the
middle it 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 go az to make good sleighing.
December was mild and comfortable.
The above is a brief summary of "tNe cold
summer OF 1916" it was called, in order to
distinguish 1t from the cold season. The win.
ter was mild. Frost and ice were common in
every month OF tho year. Very little vegetation
matured IN the Eastern and Middle St.tes.-
The suns rays seemed to be destitute ci heat
throughout the summer: all nature was clad in
q sable hue, and men Ell hhited no little ankle.
ty concerning the future Of thu. life.
The average wholesale price of -four during
that year. in the Phii~drlphia market, was S13
per barrel. The average price ot whe I in Eng.
land WAS 93s. per quarter