Review of the Season and Crops for 1847. if 
■with regard to " wind and weather," it may be said with almost 
as much certainty as with respect to our other prospects, "ye 
know not what a day shall bring forth," much less what will be 
the transitions of a season or a year. 
ObserA'ations of the past, however, and the relative connection 
which it has to the present, may enable us to form some idea, al- 
ways indefinite and too often wrong, of what may be expected of 
days to come. 
The last year and its seasons of agricultural labors, has been 
marked somewhat by its own peculiarities, yet has not, perhaps, 
been entirely without a parallel in these, in other years that are 
gone. 
Its birth-day is yet too fi-esh in the memory of all, to need 
much comment here. Its fine sleighing and warm sunshine, glad- 
dened too many a bounding heart in youth, and brought fearful 
auguries to those more advanced in years, to be easily forgotten. 
But January, the month of the infancy of the year, passed away 
without any severe manifestations of the rigor of a northern 
clime. The snow continued to dissolve, until it had nearly all 
passed away, and the warm days and freezing nights savored 
more of fickle April, than of stern mid-winter. 
February, always short in its sojourning, and rather testy in its 
character, was a fair winter month. Storms she brought, it is 
true, and scattered them with the violence of the wind, and as the 
number of her days increased, she piled huge drifts of spotless 
snow along the fences in the roads. 
March came in " like one born in full strength," bearing the 
storm and the tempest in her gloomy train. The snow, wind and 
cold were her harsh attendants, and in many instances the roads 
were so thoroughly blocked, that the fields were resorted to for 
thoroughfares, and it was not until the 20th of the month that the 
rigors of winter began to yield on them in a very reluctant man- 
ner. From that time, however, it gradually wasted away, chiefly 
through the influence of the sun, whose rays were shorn of their 
warmth by cold northern blasts. The nights as well as the days 
were cool, and of course the earth was subject to almost continual 
