The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

plenty of snow and ice. In May the young buds were frozen dead, ice
 formed half an inch thick on ponds
 and rivers, corn was killed and the kcorn fields were planted again and 1 again until it became too late to raise I a crop. By the last of May in this
 climate the trees are usually in leaf and birds and flowers are plentiful. l When the last of May arrived in 1S16 1, everything had been killed by the cold. June was the coldest month of roses ever experienced in this latitude. Frost
 and ice were as common as butter cups usually are. Almost every green thing was killed; all fruit was destroy- ed. Snow fell ten inches deep in Yer
 mont. There was a seven inch fall in Maine, and a three-inch fall in the interior of New York state, and the
 same in Massachusetts. There were only a few moderately warm days.
 Everybody looked, 1onged for 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 steadily from the north in blasts laden with snow and ice. Mothers knit socks of double thickness for their children and made thick nittens. Planting and shiver- ing were done together and the farm
 CTS who worked out their taxes on the country roads wore overcoats and init l
 fall of snow. A Vermont farmer sent a flock of sheep to pasture on June 6. The morning of the 17th dawned with the thermometer below the freez- ing point. About nine o'clock in the
 morning the owner of the sheep start ed to look for his flock. Before 1eav- ing home he turned to his wife and
 said joking1y:
 Better start the neighbors soon; it's
 the middle of June, and I may get lost
 in the snow
 An hour after he had left homo a
 terrible snow storm came up. The snow fell thick and fast, and, as there
 was so much wind, the f1eecy masses
 piled in great drifts along the wind
 ward side of the fences and outbuild-
 ings. Night came and the farmer
 had not been heard Of His wife be- neighborhood. All the neighbors Joined the searching party. On the third day they found him. He was lying in a hollow on a, side EhiII. with
 both feet frozen; he was covered with snow, but alive. Most of the sheep were lost.
 A farmer near Tewksbury, Vt, own-] ed a large field of corn. He built fires around the field to keep off the frost. Nearly every night he and his men took turns in keeping up the fires and watching that the corn did not 4IO6A0. 410 4eTIu0E was rewarded for his tireless 1abors 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 as window glass formed throughout New England, New York and in some parts Of the state of Pennsylvania. Indian corn, which in some parts of the east had struggled through May and June, gave up, froze and died
 To the surprise of everybody, Au- gust proved the worst month of all l Almost every green thing in this coun- try and Europe was blasted with frost | Snow fell at Barnet, thirty miles from England, on August 90. News papers received from England stated that 1916 would be remembered by | the existing generation the year in which there was no summer. Very little corn ripened in New England. There was great privation, and thou sands of persons would have perished in this country had it not been for | the abundance of fish and wild game.