Show WINTER winter started ir earlier than usual ard so threatened to be a long lone one yet it has been mild withal the lowest temperature was on december ath with 4 above zero but the col coldest clest day was january the snowfall for january was less then than 10 inches making 83 hundred of an inch of water the fall grain has not been well covered with snow the english sparrows have put n an appearance again and a number of our friends the robins the outlook for irrigation is ia not very good so far ALEX MATHESON vol observer |