Arizona republican., 1912-04-21
NO SUMMER THAT YEAR.
Snow and Ice Prevailed in June, July
 and Aunust. 1816.

and August 1916.
 The wear 1916 was known through out the United States and Europe as the coIdest ever experienced by any person then living. There are per sons in northern New York who have been in the habit of keeping diaries for years. and it is from the pages of m old diary begun in 1910 and kept unbroken until IS4O that the fol- lowing information regarding this year without d summer has been talk en:
 January was so mild that most per sons allowed their fires to go out and did not burn wood except for cooking. There were a few cold days. but they were very few. Most of the time the air was warm and spring-likc Feb ruary was not cold. Some days were colder than in January. but the Wca- ther was about the same. March. from the first to the sixth. was in clined to be windy, It came in like a small lion and went out like very innocent sheep.
 April came in warm but as the days grew longer the air became cold CT, and by the Ist of May there was temperature like that of winter, with plenty of snow and ice. Tn May the young buds were frozen dead, ice formed half an inch thick on ponds and rivers, corn was killed and the cornfields were planted again and again. until it became too late to raise a crop By the last of May in this climate the trees are usually in
  iful When the last of May arrived in 1916 everything had been killed by the cold.
 June was the coIdest month roses ever experienced in this latitude. Frost and ice were as common as butter cups usually are. Almost every green l thing was killed; all fruit was des- 1 trOyed. Snow fell ten inches deep in l Vermont. There was I seven-inch | fall in the interior of New York state and the same in Massac chusetts There were only a few moderately warm l days Everybody looked longed and waited for warm weather. but warm weather did not come.
 It was also dry very little rain fell All summer long the wind blew stead l fly from the north in blasts, laden with snow and ice, Mothers knit socks of double thickness for their children, and made thick mittens l Planting and shivering were done to- gether, and the farmers worked out their taxes on the county roads wore overcoats and mittens.
 A farmer near Tewsbury. Vt. own ed a large field of corn He built fires. Nearly every night he and his men took turns in keeping up tho fire and watching that the corn did not freeze The farmer was reward ed for his tireIess labors by having the only crop of corn in the region July came in with snow and ice on the Fourth of July ice as thick i as window glass formed throughout New England, New York and in some parts of Pennsylvania. Indian corn which in some parts of the east haC struggled through May and June. gave up froze and died
 To the surprise of everybody Au. gust proved the worst month of all Almost every green thing in this country and Europe was blasted witt frost Snow fell at Barnet. 90 miles from London, England, on August 90 Newspapers received from England stated that 1916 would be remembered
 by the existing generation as the yea
 in which there was no summer Thcr,
 was great privation and thousands O
 persons would have perishcd in thi,
 country had it not been for the abun. dance of fish and wild game.