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MancJiester, Illinois. — Three inches of snow on the 21st and 22d. 



Hennepin, Illinois. — Though the weather has been variable in January, the 

 changes were not sudden nor extremes great. No storms and less severity of 

 wind than usual. Comparative steadiness and low temperature of weather has 

 rendered stock water scarce in many neighborhoods. The present thaw (Feb- 

 ruary 3 ) will give them plenty of water. 



Allen ton, Missouri. — Five and one-eighth inches of snow during the month ; 

 four and a half inches of it on the 9th and lOth. 



Athens, Missouri. — January has been cold and dry ; no rain, and only an 

 inch of snow — three-quarters of an inch on the 16th and 17th, and a quarter of 

 an inch on the 22d. There has been great trouble to get water for stock. 

 The ice on the Des Moines river, above the dams, is fourteen inches thick, very 

 hard and pure; the best winter for putting up ice for twenty years. 



Canton, Missouri. — One inch and thirty-five-hundredths of snow during the 

 mouth — a fourth of an inch on the 8th ; a tenth on the 16th, and an inch on 

 the 21st. 



Easton, Missouri. — One inch of snow on the 8th, and an inch and seven- 

 tenths on the 21st. 



Harrisonville, Missouri. — Two and a half inches of snow on the Sth, and 

 two inches on the 21st. 



Bloomjield, Wisconsin. — Three inches of snow on the 22d ; no other recorded 

 during the month. January 31, temperature of water in well forty feet deep, 

 45°; temperature of air, 34*^. This is lower than for the two years preceding, 

 when it was 48^ and 49°. The ice in Geneva lake is from twenty-one inches to 

 two feet thick; last year the ice was fourteen inches. 



Baraboo, Wisconsin. — Half an inch of snow on the 4th, quarter of an inch 

 om the 20th, and four inches on the 22d. 



Embarrass, Wisconsin. — One inch of snow on the 4th ; half an inch on the 

 14th and 15th; eight inches from the 19th to the 22d, and half an inch in the 

 night of the 26th — ten inches in all. 



Wauj^acca, Wisconsin. — Five inches of snow from the 19th to the 21st ; no 

 other recorded. 



(jhreen Bay, Wisconsin. — Six inches of snow during the month, distributed 

 nearly equally on the 4th, 13th, 19th, 21st, 22d, and 30th. 



New Holstein, Wisconsin. — A few flakes of snow on the 15th, 16th, and 20th, 

 and fis'e inches on the 21st and 22d. 



Plymouth, Wisconsin. — A few flakes of snow on the 14th, 15th, 16th, and 

 19th, and four inches on the 21st and 22d. Depth of ground frozen on the 31st 

 a<bout two feet eight inches ; where the ground is covered with about ten inches 

 of snow it is frozen only a few inches. 



Delavan, Wisccmsin. — Six-hundredths of an inch of snow on the 16th, and 

 tliree and six-tenths inches on the 21st and 22d. A few flakes on several other 

 days. 



Manitowoc, Wisconsin. — Amount of snow during the month 3.87 inches. 



Milwaukee, Wisconsin. — A quarter of an inch of snow on the 10th, and two 

 and a half inches on the 21st and 22d. 



Saint Paul, Minnesota. — Six and a quarter inches of snow fell during the 

 month, five inches of it on the 19th and 20th. 



New Llm, Minnesota. — One inch of snow on the 16th, one on the 18th, and 

 two on the 20th. 



MinJieapolis, Minnesota. — Seven and a half inches of snow on the 19th and 

 20th; a little on three other days, not measured. 



Clarinda, Iowa. — Three inches of snow during the month; one inch on the 

 16 th and 17th, and two inches on the 21st. 



Algona, Iowa. — Six inches of snow on the 20[h; no other during the month 

 ettfcept a few flakea on the 13th and 16th. 



