Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1894 — A sure Sign. [ARTICLE]

A sure Sign.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “The only certain way to foresee the nature of a winter, is by the time at which the forest leaves turn,” said B. C. Blackev, a Michigan lumber man. “I have watched it ever ever since I was a boy, and when the leaves turn early we have a hard winter: when they turn late we have an. open winter. One would suppose that the time at which winter set in would have everything to do with the turning of the leaves, and it is known that some open winters have set in early and some cold ones set in late. But I have noticed that the time of cold weather beginning does not mark the turning of the leaves, i The present winter set in early in I Michigan. There- was unusually cold weather in October, but the leaves did not turn until a month later than the average time. All lumbermen arranged for an open winter on that a count, and they ."have not been mistaken. In fact, 1 have never known the sign to fail.”