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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, 

 many cattle died, and those that survived 

 were so emaciated that they did not re- 

 quire the male at the usual season." The 

 case was just the same with us here in the 

 south ; never was 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. 



