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NOTES OF THE CROPS, WEATHER, &c., APRIL, 1868. 
Steuben, Maine.—A severe storm of snow, hail, and rain on the 7th and 8th. 
West Waterville, Maine.—From 4th to 7th sleighing as good as in the winter. 
Spring farm-work began on 25th. Snow-fall in April 18 inches, 
Gardiner, Maine.—Four winter months usually spoken of; but this year 
April must be added. 
Lisbon, Maine.—Month cold, dry, blustering, but few places free from frost 
so that farmers could sow grain. 
Standish, Muine——More snow fell on the 7th than in any winter storm ; 
sleighing for six days. 
Norway, Maine-——Month remarkable for absence of rain; ground dry, and 
ponds and streams low. 
Cornish, Maine——Snow all day, 7th; frogs peeping, and snakes crawling, 
16th; firstswallows, 30th. Snow-fall in April 16 inches. 
Stratford, N. H.—Coldest April on my records. Snow yet on mountains in 
all directions, aud drifts in open fields. 
Antrim, N. H.—April a cold month; spring very backward; 15 days of snow 
and rain, but quantity less than in April, 1867. 
Goffstown Center, N. H—Frogs peeped on the 3d; but the snow-storm on 
the 7th silenced them. Snow on the hills disappeared on the 23d. No thunder 
or lightning this April. 
Lunenburg, Vt.—Very dry, mild weather; roads settled ; and more maple 
sugar made this season than for many years. 
‘Craftsbury, Vt.—An excellent sugar season ; frost mostly out of ground, 25th ; 
vegetation a fortnight earlier than last year. 
Randolph, Vt.—Snow-storms on 4th, 5th, 7th, and 27th. 
Kingston, Mass.—Great numbers of wild geese, 2d; frogs peep, 4th; snow fall 
of the season two feet more than 1866-’67, which was a snowy season. 
Newbury, Mass.—Heard frogs on Ist; good sleighing on 11th; ground frozen 
hard on 24th and 27th. 
Topsfield, Mass.—Sleighing, 8th and 12th; ice half an inch thick on 24th. 
North Billerica, Mass—Snow-storms, 4th, 5th, and 7th; the last severe and 
snow four to five inches deep; snow gone, 16th. No May-flowers visible on 30th. 
New Bedford, Mass —Oriole heard, 3d ; house-swallows, 14th. 
Mendon, Mass.—Three inches snow on 5th, seven on 7th; three on 25th; 
all gone on 26th. 
Lunenburg, Mass—Thunder-showers on 2d and 16th; coldest April since 
1857. 
Williamstown, Mass.—Hepatica, arbutus, poplar and alder in blossom on 
the Ist; frogs heard, 15th; elm and willow in blossom, 20th. April snow-fall 
15 inches. 
Newport, R. [—Snow on the 7th ended in rain, with a very high tide and 
heavy sea. 
Pomfret, Conn. —The coldest April of which we have record. 
Columbia, Conn.—Snow on the 5th, 7th, 10th, and 25th; rain on 2d, 7th, 
10th, 14th and 20th; ground frozen on 24th; a remarkable ‘April for cold and 
snow ; farm work a month behind time. 
Moriches, N. Y—Remarkable thunder-storm on 16th ; rain in torrents part of 
the time. A young lady at Christian Hook was killed in her bed ; the light- 
ning passed through the shingled roof, entered her ear, passed thr ough the neck 
and left a large hole under her arm opposite the entrance of the fluid. Her 
mother was also severely injured, and the dwelling much damaged. The month 
has been unusually cold. 
South Hartford, N. Y.—April cold and Paekvard: probably more snow 
