Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-24
a Year without a Summer.

The singular characteristics of the
present season being generally remark
ed, writer in the Boston Globe has
gathered some statistics relative to
the year 1916 known as ''the wear
without Summer" Few living have
any recolleetions Oft, but it was the
coolest ever known in Europe and
America He says:
January was mild, so much so as to
render fires almost unnecessary in
parlors. December previous was very
cold.
February was not very cold; with
the exception of few days, 1t was
mild, like its predecessor,
March was cold and boisterous
during the first part of it; the remain
der 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 a temperature
more like Winter than Spring.
May was more remarkable for
frowns than smiles. Buds and fruits
were frozen ice formed an inch thick
corn was killed, and the fields again
and again replanted until deemed too
late.
June was the coldest ever known
in this latitude. Frost, ice, and snow
were common. Almost every green
thing killed. Fruit nearly all de
stroyed. Snow fell to the depth of
ten inches in Vermont, several in
Maine, three in the Interior of New
| York, and also in Massachusetts, Con
siderable damage was done at New
| Orleans in consequence of the rapid
rise of. the river. The suburbs were
covered with water, and the roads
only passable with boats
July was accompanied by frost and
ice. On the 9Th ice was formed thick as
a common window glass throughout
New England, New York, and some
parts of Pennsylvania. Indian corn
was nearly all destroyed; ; some favor
ably situated fields escaped. This was
true Of some Of the hill farms of Mass
achusetts.
August was more cheerless, if posi-
BILE, 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
hi ng was destroyed, both in this coun
try 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 ho Summer" Very
little corn ripened in the New England
and Middle States Farmers supplied
themselves from the corn produced il
> 1915 for the seed of the spring 0
1917 It sold at from 81 to So pc
: bushel
September furnished about tw,
; weeks of the mildest weather of tn
season. Soon after the middle it be
came very cold and frosty ice forme
a quarter Of an inch thick
October produced more than it
, share of cold weather; frost and ie
in common.
November was cold and clustering
Snow fell so as to make good sleighing
. December was mild and comforta
> bic.
The above is a brief summary c
= "the cold Summer of 1885," as it wa
called, in order to distinguish it frol
the cold season. Frost and ice wer
= common in every month of the yea
g Very little vegetation matured in tn
4 Eastern and Middle States. The sun
= rays seemed to be destitute of he;
~ throughout the Summer; all natul
was clad in a sable hue, and men e.
= exhibited no little anxiety eoncernin
= the future of this life.
The average wholesale price
= -four during thatSear, in the Philade
:. phia market, was S13 per barrel. III
% average price of wheat in Englar
- was 93s per quarter