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Jan. 19. Three schooners passed Cleveland, bound up the lake. 
Weather continued -warm the rest of the month. 
Feb. 1. Four to six inches of snow fell. 
Feb. 2. Weather warm again. 
Feb. 4. Steamboat Columbia came within 2 miles of Albany. 
Feb. 5. Snow fell to a considerable depth. 
Feb. 6. Snow most of the day. Steamboat came to Coeymans. 
Feb. 9. Thermometer at zero. Hudson closed to Newburgh. 
Feb. 11. Thermometer at zero. 
Feb. 12. Floating ice in N. Y. harbor for the first time this 
"winter. 
Feb. 19. Blue birds seen at Bloomingdale, N. Y. 
Feb. 20. Heavy rain storm from the south. 
Feb. 21. Schr. Jane left Milwaukie for Chicago. Lake Mich- 
igan clear of ice. 
Feb. 23. Steam feny boat Boston crossed to East Albany. 
Feb. 24. Weather very cold again; thermometer 5'' above zero. 
Feb. 28. River open to Hudson. 
March 2. Steamboat United States left Buffalo for Detroit on 
her second trip this winter. 
March 3. Snow storm all day. 
March 9. About a foot of snow fell during the night. 
March 12. Thermometer 10° above zero. 
March 13. Thermometer at zero at 7 A. M. At Schenectady, 
7° below. 
March 16 and 17. Thermometer at zero. 
March 18. Thermometer 23° above zero. 
March 21. Columbia at Van Wie's Point. 
March 22. Ice passed out of the river. Steamboat Admiral 
arrived at Albany. — Albany Argus, 
Potato Rot. — Mr. Vander Trappe, of Wessel, Prussia, planted 
a large field of potatoes, one half in the usual method, and the 
other on a plan of his own discovery. Those cultivated by the 
usual method were diseased, and the foliage failed and dried up 
early; while those cultivated by his peculiar plan, remained 
green till late in autumn. The tubers were sound, and a great 
yield. So palpable was this experiment, that delegates were ap- 
pointed by the town to examine the result; and they have of- 
ficially promulgated the facts, and requested the discoverer to 
publish his secret. 
