Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-16
MILD WINTER is PREDICTED.
Nature Gives Man Many Signs t
ForeteII Weather Conditions.

ToFeteit weather ConCItlonS.
Many definite conclusions may be
| arrived at in recounting the weather
| conditions in general way, if the
right sort of attention is given a num-
Der OF little but vastly important
/ things in nature
| Nature, like everything else, goes to
extremes, and when ave experience u
very severe drought we are certain to
! see 1t followed by an unusually wet
/ time. Severe cold Is always followed
| by very warm weather. and intense
neat produces n cool wave.
Three severe winters never follow
each other in succession.
The winter of 1909 and 1910 and
| That OF 1911 and 1912 were both Sc
we're The country experienced more
ifeezing weather and more zero tenn
| pefatures than had been experienced
In Two consecutive winters for period
OF about twenty years. The winter OF
| 1871 and 1891 was a very mild. open
| winter, and In many sections it did
NOT freeze the ground enough during
| the entire winter TO bear the weight
OF horse. The two winters previous
| 10 that one We're very severe
| Easter Sunday is regulated by the
zodiac. Days and nights are equal
| on the 21st of March, aid the first
| SUNDAY after the firstsfull moon after
| the days and nights are equal is al
ways Easter. The moon is full the
next day after the days and nights are
| equal next March, and the next day
| after the full moon is Sunday and
must be Easter, and it is on March %,
which is the earliest that dav can
possibly come. 1t will not occur that
early again for years
| Selected spring weather seldom
comes until after Easter Sunday. and
| this means we will have a very early
spring.
| When there is very heavy crop
of grain and hay the winter following
Is, in nine cases out of ten, mild,
open winter. The crops were very
heavy the past season taking the
country over.
| All migratory birds were later In
passing south this season than usual
and yet many species of birds that all
| go when the winter is to be bad re-
main if the weather is apt to be mild
A search in our parks and throughout
the rural sections reveals many of the
summer feathered friends of human
ity still lingering with u.s.
| When the winter is very severe
| thousands of robins have been known
TO remain in Ohio and Pennsylvania
all winter feeding on berries and vari-
Gus sort of seeds that grew in the wild
places When the winter is mild the
| robins all go south, or if any focks
remain they stay far up in Canada.
| The husks on corn and the chaff on
wheat and oats were light the past
| season, and whenever the winters are
severe these are always very heavy
and cling very close about the grains
| thousands of people have faith in
the caterpillar sign of winter
| When the hundreds of caterpillars
that creep about in autumn are dark
all along their back and creep about
until after freezing weather the win
ter is certain to be long and severe
but when the dark is only found on a
/ part of the worms back. or ii is not
very distinct, the winter will not be so
severe.
If the dark is in the front the worst
weather will be in the fore part of
winter, and if the dark is in the mid
die or toward the rear the weather
| Will be worse in the middle or winter
| months, or toward spring.
| When the wind stays in the south
after rain ii is not apt to turn cold
Tor the high barometric pressure COM
ing in from the far northwest is not
| of enough power to push across the
southern part of our continent, and IT
passes over Canada and does not pro
| duce drop of the temperature of any
marked degree.
| All the autumn rainy periods have
been followed by south winds, and no
severe changes have been noted.
| Temperatures in the far north are
not as low as usual in the autumn
months when we are going to have
mild winter, and records show it was
very mild north the past autumn.
Rats and mice are not seeking win
ter quarters. and squirrels have not
been observed storing away a large
quantity of nuts for their winter con-
sumption. The nut crop was large,
but when this occurs the wild game
usually let their food remain out in
the open, but when nuts are scarce
the little animals are always very
busy storing away all they can find.
| A judicious and thoughtful observer
can see many reasons why this will
| not be a severe winter. No study is
more interesting. and it actually pays
/ to carefully study the causes and eff
feet in all such matters. If under
stood. nature is an open book.--New