Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-06-01

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During a cold spring, like that which
is just nov drawing to an end, people
generally console themselves with the
reflection that the sun will eventually
get the victory, and that summer will
&c. .ainly come at last, though its
coming may be delayed. Uncertain as
the weather is the general features Of
the season recur with a regularity
which warrants the confidence thus
thus reposed IN the annual return OF
seed time and harvest; but their are in
stances in which even the seasons
seems to have lost their characteristic
features, as if the ordinary laws ofme-
teorology had been temporarily suspen-
ded. A remarkable case Of this kind,
and one which is long-continued cold
weather Of this spring makes partic-
ulary interesting just now, is that Of
the year 1876. which has been called
"the year without summer" A COM
munication printed in the Cong ega-
fonaAist gives the following summary of
the weather of this remarkable year.
January and February were mild,
March was cold. April began warm
and ended in snow and ice. Ice formed
an inch thick in May, and fields were
planted over and over again till it was
too late to replant. June was the coolest
ever known in this latitude; frost and
ice were common. Almost every gree
thing was killed; fruit nearly all destroy
ed. Snow fell to the depth of ten inch
es in Vermont, seven in Maine, three
in the interior of New York, and also
in Massachusetts,. Their we're few
warm days. 1t was called a dry season.
But little rain fell. The wind blew
steady from the north, cold and fierce.
Mothers knit extra socks and mittens
for their childr: N in the spring, and
wood-plles that usually disappeared
during the warm spell in front If the
house were steadily built up again.
Planting and shivering we're done to-
gather, and the farmers who worked
out their taxes on the country roads,
wore overcoats aid mittens. In a
town in Vermont flock of sheep be-
longing to a farmer had been sent as
usual to their pasture. On the 18th of
June heavy snow storm fell in New
England. The cold was intense.
A farmer who had a large field of
corn in Tewksbury built fires around
it at night to ward off the frost. Many
an evening he and his neighbors took
turns watching them. He was reward
ed with the only crop of corn IN the |
Considerable damage
was done in New Orleans in conse-
quence ofthe rapid rise of the Mississ-
ippi river. Fears were entertained that
the sun was cooling off, and through
out New England all all picnics were
strictly prohibited.
July was accompanied with frost and
ice. Indian corn was nearly all de-
some favorably situated fields
escaped. August was more cherries.
if possible, than the summer months
which proceeded it. 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
goth snow fell at Barnet, forty miles
rom London. Very little corn npened
q New England and the Middle states.
Farmers supplied themselves from corn
PRODUCED in fSIs for seed in the spring
If 1857. 1t sod 4 t som So to IS
Der bushel.
September furnished alb out two xeas !.