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Show GIANT SNOWBALLS LEFT BY FREAK OF STORM AVON. N. Y.. Feb. 12. When Peter Finigin went out to do tho chores one morning recently he was mystified by the sight of a large number of huge snowballs scattered over his farm. On the 20-acre field thero were hundreds J of them ranging in size from six to J IS inches in diameter Loading up to each snowball was a streak of bare ground showing the distance it had traveled in forming. Mr Flnlgln and neighbors who gathered to study the odd spectacle decided that the wind -which had blown a gale the night before had whipped up small particles of "good packing" snow and started them down the field, some of the particles gath-erlng gath-erlng up additional sn w until balls had been formed that were too heavy for tho wind to move further. Alt tha paths of the snowballs were In th same general direction that the wind ,. H had been blowing. To record th' unusual freak of wind and snow, Mr Finigin sent for the correspondent of a Buffalo newspaper who counted more than 1000 snow-balls snow-balls of mure than 10 Inches in dl-ametcr. dl-ametcr. jH 00 The entire reclamation system o tho United States has cost $123, 178, - 799.77. |