New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 38 
FROSTS., . 
The latest frosts in spring and earliest in fall were May twenty- 
eighth, twenty-ninth, and September fourteenth, making the 
season between 108 days, the same as for 1888. But corn planted 
May sixth was not killed by the frost of twenty-eighth, twenty- 
ninth, though potatoes and beans were killed. 
The frosts of September fourteenth was followed by others on 
the fifteenth, sixteenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twenty-first, and 
the ground was slightly frozen on the twenty-third of the same 
month. | 
Some CasuAL PHENOMENA OBSERVED DURING THE SEASON HAVE BEEN 
AS FOLLOW: 









| Polar r Solar | Lunar i Mock 
Frosts. hands: Auroras. teiloe i hetas: Rainbows. Sain 
January. ..-- 1S | veeceree | sscececeee Lacier PAcawam toe oeieee canes ee 12 
February....- OF aR ee ga on pair eg nl ily J Eee aietiatl bg mat Ni ar th Oil See ne Ch 
5, 6, 16, 17, 18, 
_ March...... { 29, 23, 24, 26 } Cate hia eer es ce UL ee, 2 S AMOMEE Leet dpicttehaade tte eee ee 
gl sane at GE Ae 9 Co Gani aan PEN ei Lide taste tb she adie eg hie REE Sc eee 
WWESVes Cah oes sss Og Ps ao SR SP ge Seen AM chron | aetad been ee eas nee o hazioe eee 
Rd ie gs A. be oa hae of) wend ecne oc | 4.31, 09 Fi. ee, 
EE ny. Siete ss. [dees xine. |e sbiswscnes EUs een onee tae heaton of te ais, te, Ree 
ET gon ahs naie ae 1s eh weve, | m ssceuacies: [i nssucs EAs YA MB EE, alg s~ 
& : 14, 15, 16, 
September. { 18, 19, 21 } DLE chs ot oe spdsoatee | teak as A veh bacaeeree ts tae aoe 
DGLODEr cs. 3| d.-s.. ses % ies Ss POR oa ee pac a oe ae ey a 
November... ce AY ERS ga SO dead Soe Eiht eee. tok sa aes see Cee VC ee 





