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day. 14tb, gale from the nortliwest all day. Drifts in some places in nar- 

 row lanes, from five to six feet high, in the evening; some calves froze at night. 

 15th, the coldest day of the winter. 27th, blue-birds came. 



Muscatine, Iowa. — February 21. — Sleighing about all gone; thirty-seven 

 days in all. 27th. — Ice froze twenty-four inche:^ thick on ponds this winter. 

 March 1st, the last team crossed orf the ice on the river; seventy-seven days 

 crossing this wintei*. 



Des Moines, Iowa. — February 13. — Driving snow-storm. 14th, the most 

 uncomfortable day of the winter, intensely cold, with a furious wind. 15th. — 

 Thermometer this moi-ning lower than yesterday, but the cold was not felt so 

 severely on account of the wind having fallen. 28th, observed wild geese 

 passing north for the first time. 



Weyauwega, Wisconsin. — February 28. — This is the warmest day since the 

 loth of November; sleighing is good yet, but a few days like this will spoil it. 



Baraboo, Wisconsin. — February 28. — The winter has been the most remark- 

 able one known in this part of the State for steadiness of temperature, having 

 had no mud, and no extreme cold for this latitude. There has been less high 

 wind than in any previous winter within recollection. 



Waupaca, Wisconsi?i. — Sleighing has been fine all the month; the cold has 

 been steady, but not much extreme cold. The I5th was the coldest day of the 

 winter. The last day of the month was a beautiful spring day. 



Netv TJlm, Minnesota. — February 14. — Gale from the northwest began last 

 night and continued all this day, and air filled with drifting snow. 



Afton, Minnesota. — February 28. — Heavy fog this evening; little or no frost 

 in the ground; snow about twenty inches deep where it is not drifted; ice in the 

 river very thin, owing to the heavy covering of snow. 



Atchison, Kansas. — February 18. — Blue-birds are seen and heard singing. 

 13th, wind light from the northeast; six inches of snow. 14th, gale from the 

 northwest. 26th, the ice in the Missouri river, at this point, begins to move. 

 SSth, the Missouri river clear df ice at noon to-day, and boats crossing. 



Fort Riley, Kansas. — February 12. — Snow from 7 to 8 a. m., not measurable. 

 13th, snow from 1 p. m. till 1 o'clock in the night; at 7 p. m. a heavy gale came 

 up, continuing all night without intermission. 23d, the prairie on fire within half 

 a mile of the fort. 



Council Grove, Kansas. — February 16. — Winter broke. 27th, frost all out 

 of the ground. 



Bellevuc, Xebraska. — The storm on the evening of the 13th commenced about 8 

 p. m. very suddenly, and was the most violent that has been this winter. The 

 snow that fell on the 12th and 13th was blown from the plains and fields till it 

 found a shelter, leaving the ground bare in most places. Some geese flying 

 north on the 27th and 28th. The river is still closed, and the ground bare ex- 

 cept where there are drifts. Frost in the ground except surface of two or three 

 inches. 



Glendale, Nebraska. — The observer states that the 14th of February was the 

 coldest (Lay known in Nebraska since the white men have had possession. The 

 mean temperature of the day was 12° below zero, with a fierce wind. The 

 minimum occurred the next morning, 32° below zero. 27th, by digging in on 

 open, level, exposed ground, it was found frozen thirty inches deep. 2yth, the 

 Platte and Missouri rivers are breaking up ; ice from twenty to twenty-three 

 inches thick. First flock of wild geese seen going north. 



Great Salt Lake City, Utah. — February 28. — The Avinter has been steady ; 

 no severe storms ; a great amount of snow in the mountains. 



