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blight. Hundreds of acres were not harvested. The winter 
wheat, and some kinds of spring wheat, however, did well, fur- 
nishing an abundance beyond what is necessarily consumed. The 
The late invention of a machine for pulling flax has obviated the 
great objection to the raising of this crop, while the building of 
mills for the dressing of flax has opened for it a ready market. 
The fruit that has been introduced into the country did well 
_ the past year, and has kept up the fair promise for the future. In 
some instances the fruit trees have suffered from the blight. 
Some grapes were injured by the frost while in the blossom, but 
those later in flowering did finely. 
Garden-vines were greatly injured by the heavy rains. Some 
being entirely drowned out, while.others rotted at the roots. 
There was no second flowering of plants as noticed last year, 
except the case mentioned in the calendar on November 10th. 
was quite narrow, 
being but four or five rods in width. Its direction was from south- 
West to northeast. The law of rotation of the winds, alluded to 
in the last years abstract, is, in the general, corroborated by this 
year’s observations ; there were, however, marked exceptions. 
CALENDAR. 
January,—2d, Morning, meteor seen in the northeast; 16th, 
the thermometer fell from 35° at sunrise to 3° at 9 p.m. ; tulips 
and jonquils above ground ; humble bee seen fiying about ; 30th, 
coldest day in the year, thermometer averaging 11° below zero. 
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