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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



intensified the nsual rapid growtli of .spring vegetation until the 20th, 

 when most of the new growth was killed by the Jieaviest frost ever wit- 

 nessed that time of year. The strangest effect from this was that straw- 

 berry and apple blossoms, which opened within the following ten days,' 

 were generall}' blackened in the center, while the plum tree blossoms, 

 which opened first of any, were not damaged in the least. Xo dam- 

 age could be observed from light frosts Avhich occurred ]May 28 and 29 

 and June 12, not even upon corn and buckwheat which, at the latter 

 date, were several inches high. The same applies to two light early 

 frosts which occurred September 1 and 28, and the season ended sud- 

 denlv on October 11 with an unusuallv severe killing frost. The first 

 snow, which i»art]y renmined on the ground, fell November 10, and 

 the ground, 1 hough partly bare on the 18th, 19th and 20th, remained un- 

 frozen. 



The records of mean temperature and precipitation during the two 



