Nebraska advertiser., 1881-10-20
The Year without n summer.

The wear 1915 was known throughout
the United States and Europe rs the
coolest ever experienced. Very few
persons now living can rec9llect it.
Tho following is brief abstract of the
weather during each month of that
year
January was mild, so as TO- render fires
almost needless in parlors.
February was not cold; with the cx-
ception of few days, it was much like
its predecessor.
March was cold and bostcrous dur
ing the early part of the month; the
remainder was mild. a great freshct
occurred on the Ohio and Kentucky
Rivcrs, which caused great loss of
property.
April began warm, but grew cold rs
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 half an inch thick
corn was killed and fields were again
and again rcplantcd, until deemed too
late.
Juno was the coolest ever known i'm
this latitude; frost, ice and snow were
common. Almost every green thing
was killed. Fruit nearly all destroyed.
Snow fell to the depth Of ten inches in
Vermont, seven in Maine, three i'm the
interior of New York, and also i'm Mas
saChusctts. Considerable damage was
done in New Orleans, in consequence
of the rapid rise in the Mississippi Riy-
er; the suburbs were covered with wa
ter, and the roads were only passable in
boats.
July was accompanied with frost 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. In
dian corn was nearly all destroyed;
some favorably situated fields escaped.
This was true of some of the hill-farms
in Massachusetts.
August was more cheerlcss, il posi-
BILE, than the summer months already
passed Ice was formed half an inch
in thickness; Indian corn was so frozen
that the greater part was cut down and
dried for fodder; almost every green
thing was destroyed in this country and
in Europe. On the 3Oth snow fell ut
Barnet, forty miles from London.
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 sum.
mer" Very little corn rpened in
New England and the Middle States.
Farmers supplied themselves from corn
produced in 1918 for seed in the spring
of 1917. 1t sold at from - to So pei
bushcl.
September furnished about two weeks
of the mildeSt weather of the season.
Soon after the middle it became cold
and frosty; ice formed quarter of an
inch in thickness.
October produced more than its
share of cold weather; frost and ice
were common. The summer and
autumn of 1916, cold, rainy and unge.
NAL throughout Europe, was peculiarly
so in France. Constant rains fell dur.
ing the months of July, August and
September. But for an abundant po
tato crop, famine, with all its horrors
would have been the lot of France
The Minister of the Interior established
granaries throughout the kingdom
where corn was sold to the destitute al
reduced price. Prices rose, however
to more than double, and hundred,
perished of actual want.
November was cold and clustering
snow fell so rs to make good sleighing
December was mild and comfortable
The above Is brief summary of the
cold summer of 1916, as il was called il
order to distinguish it from the winter
The winter was mild. Frost and ict
were common in every month of the
year. Very little vegetation was ma
turcd in the Eastern and Middle States
The suns rays seemed TO be destitute
OF heat during the summer; all natur,
was clad in n sable hue. and men eX
hibited no little anxiety concerning tn,
future of this life.
The average price of -four durin!
the year, in the New York market wa
thirteen dollars per barrel. The aver
age price of wheat in England wa
ninety-seven shillings per quarter
Bread riots occurred throughout Grea
Britain in 1917, in consequence of th
high price of the statf of life.