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freezing point which continued for thirteen days, or until the 
twenty-second, with the exception of a rise to a little above the 
freezing point during a short time in midday on three occasions, 
rom December 28 to the afternoon of January 22, a 
period of almost four weeks, the mercury did not rise above the 
freezing point but five times, and remained there but a few hours 
each time. During this period a snow mantle covered the 
ground. On the afternoon of the twenty-second of January the 
temperature rose to 47”, and remained about in that neighbor- 
hood until the evening of the following day when it again dropped, 
and by Sunday afternoon, the twenty-fourth, it again went below 
the freezing point, and remained there, with one exception on the 
thirtieth, when it rose to 36°, until February 6, another period 
of fourteen days, with continuous freezing weather sas on 
one day. A snow blanket still covered the soil. A per 
of about thirty-six hours of warm weather ensued, with a maxi- 
mum temperature of 51.5°, followed by a rapid decline, the 
freezing point being again reached early on February 8, and 
remaining considerably below the freezing point, with a minimum 
fo) ° until the fourteenth, when a maximum of 33° was 
reselies followed by another decline to far below freezing (with 
a minimum of — 1°), which persisted, with a rise to 32” on the 
twentieth, until the twenty-first, when a sudden rise occurred, 
the temperature advancing from about 6° to 40° in about four 
hours, thus putting a final stop to this long period of almost un- 
precedented cold weather which has done thousands of dollars’ 
worth of damage to shrubs in this region. 
Now to epitomize: from December 28, 1903, to February 21, 
1904, a period of fifty-six days, the mercury only rose above the 
freezing point, excepting for the two intervals of warm weather 
referred to, on seven days, and a range of a a was ex- 
hibited during this period of — 17° to 51.4 
A feature greatly increasing the damage ote by this cold 
period was the high winds which prevailed for a great part of the 
time. These penetrated all places not protected, and had it not 
been for the covering of snow which covered the ground for all 
or the greater part of this bitter cold weather, the damage must 
