608 Eighth Annual Keport of the 



1879. Cold winter and good sleighing. Cold, backward spring. 



1881. Cold untdl the middle of April. Very dry until October, 

 and then very wet and warm balance of year. 



1882-83. Heavy snow storm November 26th, lies on all winter; 

 very cold and backward spring. 



1884. From August 4th till 21st the thermometer was 90 de- 

 grees and over every day. December closes \erj warm. 



1885. April 1st: "My thermometer has marked zero and be- 

 low forty-five times since January 1st." May was a warm, lovely 

 mouth. 



1885-6. A remarkably mild winter; plowing mostly completed 

 in March. 



1887. Fine, open winter; no sleighing. A hot July on an aver- 

 age, but winter clothing necessary on the 10th. Very open 

 weather until the middle of December. 



1888. A very mild winter; severe blizzard on March 12th and 

 13th. 



1889. A mild January and very changeable weather in Febru- 

 ary. Grain all sowed in March. May 29th, thermometer 26 de- 

 grees; grass, garden stuff and potatoes all cut down. June 1st, 

 water two feet higher than I ever saw it on the Canisteo river 

 and another flood June 17th. 



1890. The year opens warm, and January closes with a tem- 

 perature of 68 degrees (the temperature obtained also at the 

 Weather Bureau station at Erie, Pa. Ed.). The warmest and 

 wettest winter on reoord; not a sleigh seen all winter. 



1891. A winter of frequent rain and snow. 



1892. Good sleighing nearly all winter. A remarkably fine 

 year for farmers. 



The following remarks of Dr. J. Hyatt, of Dutchess county, 

 have a bearing upon the questiou, "Is our climate changing?" 

 " It is important to note thast killing frosts and all sorts of quick 

 or extensive ranges of temperature or preoipitatioin (including, 

 perhaps, in a lesser degree, pressure changes) have greatly in- 

 creased within my own adult experience of fifty-five years, and 

 thait these injurious effects have advanced in full proportion, if 



