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the grain rotting in the ground, probably the effect of the last 
winter’s cold acting on the vitality of the imperfectly ripened 
grain, Frosts as late as the middle of the month also sotaided its 
growth, so that until the first of June the prospect of a poor crop 
of corn was very apparent; the dry weather which set in with the 
heat, completed these fears, and the result was a very light yield 
of this important bread stuff. The amount of rain for the spring 
months is 7,7, inches. In 1854 it was nearly twelve inches. 
ummer months —The mean of the summer temperature was 
_ 18°80, which is somewhat higher than in 1854, the latter being 
73°55, the extreme heat in 1856 being greater than in 1854 by 
two degrees, rising on the 17th of July to 100°, while the highest 
in the hot summer of that year was 98°. The nights were cooler 
than in 1854, generally of a temperature not uncomfortable to 
the sleeper. The quantity of rain during the summer was 10,4%. 
urculio and other insects. Peaches, an entire failure, being 
killed in the bud by the winter; grapes, quite light, many vines 
ua. 
; the Summer. Sweet potatoes, now an important portion of good 
agreeing bet i ir nature and habit, than any other pro- 
duction: tiers pera Pudi were killed by the cold of winter, 
were hearly all destroyed, indicating a gloomy future to the fruit 
STower, as what has once happened may again be ex 
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