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that it is remembered by the name of the 

 black spring. The snow, which seldom lies 

 at all, covered the ground for eight weeks r 

 many cattle died, and those that survived 

 were so emaciated that they did not require 

 the male at the usual season.*' The case 

 was just the same with us here in the south ; 

 never were so many barren cows known 

 as in the spring following that dreadful 

 period. Whole dairies missed being in 

 calf together. 



At the end of March the face of the 

 earth was naked to a surprising degree, 

 Wheat hardly to be seen, and no signs of 

 any grass ; turnips all gone, and sheep in 

 a starving way. All provisions rising in 

 price. Farmers cannot sow for want of 

 rain. WHITE. 



