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WILL THIS BE REPEATED9
The Astonishing Summer That This
One Looks Llke--SnOw and Ice IN
july and Acknowledgements Spring

Ecr;ng q cold spring. like that which Is just
now ira Ing 10 un end, pcnp'o generally con-
sole Themselves with The rf;l"rtl"n that the
sun will eventually aci tie victory, and that
Summer will certainly come at last. though
its coming may he delayed. Uncertain as the
wcalher Is the general features OF tie season
recur with Il regularity wnlch warrants me
confidence thus rcfISed in the annual return
of seed time and harvest: but there are ILL.,
stances on record In which even the Seasons
seem to have lost tifcifcliar;trtrriS;ic features,
as ir the ordinary laws OF mc:eornl"gy li1'l
been temporarily suspended. y remarkable
case of this kind, and pir which the long con-
tinued cold weather Of this spring makes par
tic1llarly intcre ting just now. is that OF me
year lSlG, which has been callcl the year
without u summer" y communicating print
cd in the Cnagyrgntionnlia gives the following
summary of the weather OF this remarkable
year: go,
January and February were mill: March
was cold; April began warm, but ended IN
sl,o and Ice. Ice formed an inch thick In
May, and fields were planted over anu over
again TN 1t WAS too late To r%erlant. June was
the coolest ever known in This latItudc; frost
and ic. were common. Almost every green
ihirg was killed; fruit nearly. all destroyed.
snow icll to the depth Of ten inches in Yer
mont, seven in Maine. three In the interior ol
New York, and also In MASSACHUSETTS,. There
were II few warm days. 1t was called a Dry
season. The wind blew steadily from the
north, cold and fierce Mothers knit extra
socks and miltcns for their children IN the
SJring, and wood piles that usually ulSap-
pearcd during the warm spell In front OF the
houses were speedily built up again. Plant.
Ing and shircring were done together, ana
the farmers who worked ont their taxes on
the county roads wore nverc0ats anu miitcns.
In n town in Vcrmontn flock Of Shrcp belong
ing to II farmer had hrcn Sent rs usual to their
pasture. On the Eth OF June n heavy snow
fell in New England. The cold was intense.
a farmer who bad a large field OF corn In
TcwkShury built fires around 1t ut night to-
ward of the frost; many nh evening he ana
his neIglihOrS took turns watching them. Tic
was rewarded with the only crop Oh corn in
the npighburhnod. considerable damage was
done III New Orleans in consequence of the
rapid rise Of the Mississippi river. Fears were
entertained that the sun was cooling OF ana
throughout New England all p~ic-nics were
strictly prohibited.
July was accompanied with frost and ice.
Indian corn was nearly all destroyed; some
mvorably situated fields escaped. August was
more checrless, If possible, than the summer
months which preceded It. Ice was formed
an inch In thickness. Indian corn was 81
frozen that the greater part was cut down anu
dried for fodder. Almost every green thing
was destroyed In this county and In Europe.
On the Both snow fell at Barnett. forty miles
from London. Very little corn ripcned IN
New England and The Middle States. Farm.
crs supplied themselves from corn produced
in 1915 for seed in the spring Of ISL. 1t sold at
from 81 TO 50 per bnssiel.