Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 
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WEATHER-RECORD FOR TWENTY YEARS. 
BY G. J. KELLOGG, JANESVILLE. 
The following record of the weather, kept at my place for the 
last twenty years, has many points of interest and may be useful. 
The thermometer used, hung in the same position for twenty yaers, 
is a spirit-gauge, self-registering, giving the coldest degree reached 
during each twenty-four hours, usually the coldest at about sunrise. 
The aggregates given are obtained by adding the coldest tempera¬ 
ture each day when the spirit had passed below zero. Example—5 
days at 20 below zero would aggregate 100: 
1855— January, thaw with rain; 5th to Tth February, good sleigh¬ 
ing; March 5, a thaw; a backward spring; wheat sowed April 17, 20; 
May 9 and 10, ice; June 3, frost; October 5 and 6, ice ; Decembel 
24, 28 degrees below zero. 
1856— January 9, 32 degrees below zero, below 13 days; Febru¬ 
ary 3, 30 below, below 12 days; December 7, 19 below, below 15 
days; total number days below, 40; aggregate, 546. 
1857— January, one of the coldest ever known, 30 to 32 below. 
A mean temperature of li degrees with 4 observations daily, at 8 
and 10 a. m., 12 m., and 2 p. m.; February 5, rain, with heavy freshet; 
March 10, below zero,; April 22, sowing wheat; Ma}^ 12, ice; Novem¬ 
ber 19, snow six inches; December, plowing all the month. 
1858— January, the warmest ever known, 4 observations daily 
gave a mean temperature of 29J, extremes 2 to 55; February 10, 
24 below, below for 10 days; March 2, zero; November 19, 3 below, 
below for 2 days; December 9, 18 below, below for 3 days; total 
days below, 16; aggregate, 144. 
1859— January 22, 16 below, below for 6 days; February 10, 8 
below, below for 4 days; December 31, 20 below, below for 6 days; 
total days below 16; aggregate, 136. 
1860— January 2, 22 below, below for 6 days; February 1, 12 be¬ 
low; December 23, 14 below, below for 4 days; total days below, 11; 
aggregate, 108. 
