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tember if planted in due season; all over the uplands of the 
State it was unusually fine, better on the hills than on the bot 
toms, as the latter had been too wet for a healthy growth. This 
abundance of corn furnished the farmers with the means of 
better fattening their hogs than last year, and the yield of pork 
is much greater and better in quality. It also bears a fair price, 
enabling them in some measure, to make up for the loss of their 
wheat and potatoes. It has been on the whole a disastrous year 
for the agriculturist, and pecuniary affairs were never more de 
pressed than at present, even more so than in the panic and 
mercantile failures of 1857, as then he had a fine crop of wheat 
=~ abundance of fruit and potatoes to comfort him under his 
oO 
On the 27th of November there fell seven inches of snow with 
the temperature at 33°. It rained the following night and in 
forty-~ ee hours it was all melted. There has been no icei 
the rivers up to this time, 5th of January, 1859, and the oe 
on degre of cold, the 9th and 10th of December, is 14° 
a eval Calendar. —March 12th, Bluebird seen ; 17th, Robbin 
tree opening; 10th, ech tae Canadensis, = poi 8 
few blossoms, much i injured by the cold 23d Feb. ; Lith, PP ‘ren 
hylla 21st, Dwarf sane 
ori 2 26th, Cornus a 
: of fruit, more than ever *™ 0, 
Purple 19th, yy 3, Hetusan ive 20th, Black aya : 
e anal ; ae Syringa fragrans, June eS 
i lead ; 3d, . te tii: 4th, Trades - 
