STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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Date of First and Last Light and Killing Frosts, and Datk of Bloom- 

 ing Fruit Trees. 



The following table of first and last li^lit frosts, first and last killing 

 frosts, along with the lowest temperature, and also the dates at which fruit 

 trees were first noticed beginning to bloom, and the dates and amounts of 

 snowfall for seventeen years, are from the records of Mr. Samuel H. Grer- 

 rish, a local and voluntary meteorological observer of the Signal Service, 

 United States Army, who furnished this data for publication: 



Dates of Snowfall in Sacramento and the Amount Precipitated. 



January 29, 1862— .75 of an inch. 



January 12, 1868—1.62 inches. 



December 3, 1873—6.00 inches. 



April 5, 1875— A trace; enough to whiten the ground before it melted. This was the cold- 

 est April ever known. A very light trace on January 13, 1879. 



January 26, 1880— Estimated about .25 of an inch. It mostly melted as it fell. 



February 17 and 18, 1882— Light trace. 



December 31, 1882— Estimated about four inches ; measured 1.50 inches actual measure- 

 ment. 



February 1 and 6, 1883— A very light fall of snow. 



