Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-08
A YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER

A correspondent of the Boston Globe writes.
 While, everyone is speaking of the. present season. as being remarkable in its characteristics, have gathered for your readers some reliable facts of the year 1916, known as the Year without a summer Few persons now living can recollect it, but it was the coldest ever known through Flu rope and America. The following is brief abstract of the weather during each month of the year:
 January was mild, so much so as to render fires almost needless in par Iora. December previous was very cold.
 February was not very cold with the exception of few days it was mild. like its predecessor.
 March was cold and boisterous dur- ing the first part of it; the remainder was mild. A great freshet on the Ohio and Kentucky rivers caused 8 great loss of property. April began warm, but grew colder as the month advanced, and ended with snow and ice and 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 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 destroy eds Snow fell to the depth Of ten inches i'll Vermont, several in Maine, three in the interior of New York and also in Massachusetts. Considerable damage was done at New Orleans in consequence of the rapid rise of the river. The suburbs were covered with water, and the roads were only pass able with boats.
 July was accompanied by frost and ice. On tha 9th ice was formed of the thickness of a common window glass throughout New England, New York and some parts of Pennsylvania. Indian corn was nearly all destroyed; some favorably situated fields escaped. This was true of some of the hill farms of Massachusetts.
 August was more cheerless, if pos sible,. than the sunmur months already passed. Ice was formed half an inch thick. Indian corn was so frozen that the great part of it was cut down and dried for fodder. Almost every green thing was destroyed, both in this country and in Europe. Papers received from England state ssthat it would be remembered by the present generation that the year 1916 was 3 year in which there was no summer" Very little corn ripened in the New England and middle states Farmers supplied themselves from corn pro- duced in 1915 for the need of the spring of 1877. It sold at from four to five dollars per bushel.
 September fourished about two weeks of the mildest weather of the season. Soon after the middle it be- came very cold and frosty; ice formed 8 quarter of an inch thick.
 October produced more than it's share of cold weather; frost and ice common
 November was cold and clustering Snow fell so as to make good sleigh
 December was mild and comfor- table.
 The above is a brief summary of sthe cold summer of 1816," as 1t was called in order to distinguish it from the cold season. The winter was mild. Frost and ice were common in every month of the year Very little vege- tation matured in the eastern and middle states. The suns rays seem ed to be destitute of heat throughout the summer; all nature was clad in a sable hue, and men exhibited no little anxiety concerning the future of this life
 The average wholesale price of four during that year in the PhiIa- delphia market, was thirteen dollars per barrel. The average price Of wheat in England was ninety-three sllillings per quarter.