PROBABLE CHANGES IN THE CLIMATE OF OHIO. 
BY C. REEMELIN. 
To J. HW. Kuippart, Secretary of the Board of Agriculture : 
At the conclusion of an essay on “the Climate of Ohio,” I promised to 
follow up the subject by a second article. Feeling my knowledge upon 
the subject to be incomplete, I would have been glad to have escaped from 
my engagement, but your solicitations and my own sense of duty prompt 
me to its fulfillment. 
The subject is one of great interest to every inhabitant of our State, as 
upon its correct understanding depends the question whether labor shall be » 
well or ill directed. Every person should, as far as able, study and ob- 
serve the laws of climate and present any facts and impressions thus 
gained to the public at large. With this view, I furnished last year the 
general characteristics of our climate, and now venture to offer some addi- 
tional remarks on such modifications as are likely to result from alterations 
on the surface of the State. 
Before I do this I desire, however, to say that I share the growing be- 
lief in the permanency of climates, and appreciate in its fullest force the 
axiom, that artificial changes in the surface of, the country, cannot greatly 
counteract, much less entirely obliterate their general characteristics, and 
yet I hold it injurious to deny to human agercy all ameliorating powers. 
That we should guard against any misapplication of man’s labor, is wise; 
and we should ever act upon the truth that the greatest success in agricul- 
ture and industrial pursuits exists wherever men labor most in harmony 
with the laws of nature which surround them. It is but too often a waste 
of physical power to attempt a system of agriculture at variance with cli- 
mate, or to try to raise special products not congenial to the particular local- 
ity; and yet we know that man has added to his comfort and pleasure by 
forcing, if I may be allowed the expression, his climate southwardly. The 
fruits of the tropics are now cultivated in many parts of the temperate 
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