366 METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 
requirjC the male at the usual season/' The case was just 
the same with us here in the south ; never were 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 signsf 
of any grass; turnips all gone, and sheep in a starving 
way. All provisions rising in price. Farmers cannot sow 
for want of rain. 
