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rather classed among the early ones. If the cause is asked, 

 we answer true it is we had a long-protracted winter, but the 

 weather suddenly passed to the opposite extreme, and it is be- 

 lieved we have had hotter weather, either to take the mean, or 

 to take the extreme heat, than we usually have at this season. 

 The facts above stated are unquestionable. The prospect at 

 present is very flattering to farmers. 



A PRACTICAL CULTIVATOR. 

 . May 14, 1816. 



On the 5th March, the fruit trees in Charleetown, near Bos- 

 ton, Mass. were in blossom: on the 29th of that month, the trees 

 were covered with ice and snow in Boston: the snow on a level 

 was more than one foot deep in the streets. The change in 

 the temperature of the weather took place generally through- 

 out the United States on the 17th March. Frost was observa- 

 ble at Charleston, S. C. on the 29th August, and the sugar 

 canes and cotton, in Georgia, were seriously injured. In Ten- 

 nessee, and the Western States, generally, corn and wheat 

 have been abundant: and in December the first sold for 25 

 cents and the latter for one dollar the bushel, in Ohio. 



On the 14th May frost killed much of the cotton in Tennes- 

 see. Snow fell on the 6th June, in New Hampshire, and the 

 western parts of Massachusetts. At Plattsburg no rain had 

 fallen previously to the 5th October, fpr eight or ten weeks; 

 and almost all the springs and swamps were dried up. 



Snow fell on the 6th October, at Brunswick, Maine, two 

 inches deep. 



So mild was the weather in the beginning of January, 1817, 

 that at Concord, Mass. " the white pond lilies (not having had 

 time last summer) expanded their leaves and appeared in full 

 bloom." A great change soon took place, intensely cold wea- 

 ther having followed generally throughout the continent. At 

 Montreal the mercury in Fahrenheit's thermometer stood on 

 the 12th January at 12®, and gradually fell to 14° below 0, on 

 the 22d. At Brunswick, Maine, on the 13th, it was 15^° be- 

 low 0, and fell to 17° on the 16th. At Kennebeck it was 32° 

 below o, on the 15th. At Hallowell, Maine, on the loth and 



