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ting cultivated ground quite deep, uot running off, but sinking down into the 

 earth, doing an immense amount of good to crops which had started to grow. 



A/ton, Minnesota.-^MRy 14. — Red currants and gooseberries in bloom, 

 17th, wikl plum in full bloom. 19th, very heavy gale of wind from the north- 

 west, commencing about 4 p. m., and ending with a thunder-storm at 7 p. m. 



Minneapolis, Minnesnta. — May 19. — Thermometer 90^^ at 12 m., and 57° at 

 7 p. m. ; the wind changing from southwest to northvv^est. May 23, like, yel- 

 low currant,, and wild columbine in flower. 



Ceres, Iowa. — JMay 15. — Cherry and apple trees in full bloom. 23d, heavy 

 white frost tliis morning. 3ist. — The month has been very changeable and 

 generally cool. 



Lyons, Iowa. — May 17. — Heavy frost, doing much damage to grapes and 

 other fruit. 19th, a hard wind-storm occurred at 11 p. m., continuing for about 

 twenty minutes. 



Iowa Falls, Iowa. — May 1. — Snow squalls from 6 a. m. to 3 p. m. 26th, 

 the weather has been very dry, and corn has not come up well. 



Clinton, loiva. — May 2. — The Mississippi river is eighteen to twenty feet 

 above low-water mark, and within eight inches of high-water mark. 3d, river 

 at a stand. 5th, river falling. ■ 



Manchester, Iowa. — May 10. — Gooseberry bushes in full bloom, and plum 

 trees beginning to blossom. Cattle have got their living for a week in the 

 prairie. 14th, hard frost this morning, 18th, apple trees in full bloom. 23d, 

 crab-apple trees in full bloom. The ground is getting quite dry. 



Waterloo, Iowa — May 14. — Last frost in this month. 3ist has been for the 

 most part cool and dry; corn, and especially small seed, is very backward and 

 irregular in coming up. 



Monticello, Iowa. — May 14. — A severe frost this morning; fruit buds not 

 advanced far enough to be injured by it, 17th, a light frost, but no injury to 

 vegetation. 25th, the weather is so dry that crops begin to suffer. 



Fort Madison, Iowa. — May 15. — At 5 p. m. corn-crib struck by lightning 

 and roof set on fire, which was soon extinguished. 18th, sorghum and early 

 corn up. 2Sth, ground too wet to plough. 



Dubuque, Iowa. — May 1. — The Mississippi river at a stand from the present 

 rise, reaching within six inches of the high-water mark of June 14, 1859, 

 which was the highest water since the observer has been keeping a record, 

 2d, 4th, 7th, hoar frosts. 9th, cherry trees in blossom. 



loiva City, Iowa. — May 2. — Hard frost; vegetation being late, was unin- 

 jured. 17th, 19th, light frost, doing no damage. 



Leavenworth, Kansas. — May 31. — This has been an unusually wet, cloudy, 

 and cold month for this climate, being nearly nine degrees below the average 

 temperature, and over one inch above the average amount of rain. Lighting 

 and thunder were frequent, and during a storm on the evening of the 19th 

 four persons were killed by the lightning, while camped under a tree between 

 the city and fort. 



Atchison, Kansas. — May 19. — Heavy thunder-storm accompanied with high 

 wind from the northwest, continuing from 6 to 7 o'clock p. m. 29th, light frost 

 in the low grounds this morning. 



Manhattan, Kansas. — May 11. — From 7^ to 9i p. m., lightning came frotn 

 a distant cloud in the northeast about fifteen degrees long and ten degrees high. 

 The cloud remained nearly stationery for two hours, and no other portion of 

 the sky was obscured. No thunder was heard. For near half an hour the 

 flashes averaged about fifty to a minute. 



Burlington, Kansas. — May 16. — Wild grapes begin to bloom. 27th, Clinton 

 and Catawba vines begin blooming. 29th, considerable frost away from the 

 river. Thermometer at sunrise 39® ; on the ground, in vicinity of the frost, on 

 old hay, 34°. Tender vegetables killed in exposed places, at least fifteen days 



