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were wide open again in definite
anticipation.
Unusually mild weather was ushered
in with this rain and everybody
got the feeling of spring in the air,
and indeed, the last week in February
was typical spring weather. Day
temperatures ran from 31 degrees to
39 degrees,, with streets and roadways
breaking up as in mid-March. Snow
on the fields dropped from 15 inches
to a bare six inches. The Ia·tter half
of February only produced 3.5 inches
of snow, while the first half had produced
11.5 inches.
Thus the hardboiled little month
of February had lived up to its reputa-
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tion for a mere ten days and then
had turned soft, cheating March of its
eternal popularity as the month that
gives us s'pring and all that goes
therewith.
Thoughts of lions or lambs were
set aside this year, when the fine
weather that had its birth well back
into February continued unchanged
into the month of March. Agriculturists
and skiers alike, however, had
mutual reason for thankfulness in
the 10 inches of _s,now that fell in the
first three days of March. .This
abundant snow was timely in its
coming and provided a blanket of
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