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Some fields were replanted three times. This grain can be 
planted from the first of April to the first of June in this climate, 
and make a crop. | 
July 1st, whortleberry ripe, being protected from frosts by the 
forest trees, among which they grow; 10th, chestnut tree in 
bloom; 16th, hay harvest begins, some weeks later than usual, 
and the crop is poor and thin, 
Summer.—The mean temperature of the summer months was 
71:16°, which is a little higher than that of 1844, and was fa- 
vorable in this part of Ohio to vegetation. In June and July, 
there fell nearly as much rain as in the five preceding months, 
and produced a rapid growth in Indian corn, potatoes and oats. 
The wheat crop was a tolerable one, and the grain generally 
ripened well. Nearly all our summer fruits were destroyed, such 
as strawberries, gooseberries, currants, peaches and grapes. Mel- 
ons, of both varieties, planted after the first of June, produced 
fine crops, and partly compensated for the loss of the fruit. 
Apples and pears were very scarce, and what few there were 
generally proved defective and rotted soon. For winter use, 
there were very few orchards that produced any, which was a 
serious loss to many farmers near Marietta, who put up annually 
for market from five hundred to two thousand barrels, of the 
choicest varieties. 
Autumn.—The mean temperature of the autumnal months was 
52:25°. ‘This season was very pleasant while it continued, but 
terminated rather abruptly the latter part of November ; the last 
nine days were quite cold, and the ground was covered with. 
snow on the 30th. December commenced with great sever- 
ity ; on the morning of the first day, the snow which fell on the 
last night of November, was nine inches deep ; and the morning 
of the 2d, the mercury sunk to zero. The rivers were filled 
with floating ice, and on the 5th day of December, the Ohio was 
frozen over, and the navigation of boats remained obstructed into 
January, 1846. The thermometer has been below zero on sev- 
eral mornings, and the season is thus far the coldest we have had 
for several years. 
A brief account of the drouth in the northern portion of Ohio, 
in the vicinity of Lake Erie—The district of country which 
suffered the most, was about one hundred miles in length and 
fifty or sixty in width, extending nearly east and west parallel 
