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October injured these crops. Fall seeding often failed to ger- 

 minate, and in many cases the ground was too dry for plowing. 

 Foliage took on unusually brilliant tints between October 1st 

 and 10th. Severe frosts came very late this autumn, and in the 

 south and near large bodies of water vegetation was uninjured 

 until November. 



Ice in Rivers, etc.: Navigation opened on the Hudson, as far 

 north as Poughkeepsie, on the 2d of March, and the first boat 

 reached Albany from New York on the 16th. Ice broke up in 

 the Susquehanna river on the 4th, in Chautauqua lake on the 

 12th and in Lake George on April 13th. The rivers of central 

 and southern New York were generally' closed by ice (tempo- 

 rarily) between the 25th and 31st of December. 



