“\Eith What 3. Glory Comes and Goes the Year!” 15

root-cellar: and truly they knew what they were talking about! As readers must have observed at times.

Hallowe’en, 3Ist of October, is the evening preceding the Feast of All Hallows or All Saints rand the pranks formerly play- ed on this night point to a pagan origin of the festival.

Noteworthy Aurora on Oct. I, 1919. An awful day of rain and gale (50 mph); much damage done Oct. 1, 1923. Potato digging general Oct. 1, 1929; half a crop this year. Potato dig— ging Oct. 3, 1916. Torrential rains, Oct. 3, 1929.

On Oct. 4, 1927, a large flock of young Robins was observ- ed; probably travellers from the Northland en route to the sunny south. Eristalis tenax seeking winter quarters, Oct. 5, 1929: this is a large two—winged fly, simulating a bee or wasp, and creating a mild panic as it invades house or school in the Fall. School of Blackfish (Tautoga onitis) came ashore at Summerside, Oct. 5, 1930, and at Annandale in June, 1927.

Electric storm, with hail, at 3 pm. Oct. 6, 1921; aurora at night, Warm day Oct. 6, 1928; temp. 68 degrees (shade) at 4 p.m.

Potato picking Oct. 7, 1915. On Oct. 7, 1929, I gathered edible fungi Clitocybe prunulus, C. orcella, and Boletus edulis.

Church Service at Harrington on Thanksgiving Day, Mon— day Oct. 9, 1916. Potato digging stopped by rain Oct. 10, 1919: much rain that month. Gale swept the Island with much minor damage, Oct. 12, I936: this gale general in the Maritimes, An- napolis apple crop ruined. Note on Oct. 12, 1926, says: “Leaves about gone from birches and maples.”

About this time garden seeds are ripe—note on Oct. 14, 1917. A fortnight of disaster: Barn at Experimental Station destroyed by fire, Oct, 14, 1928: property burn at Kinross on Oct. 22, and two fires at Vernon River on Oct. 24, cause a total loss of about $37,000.

Beet and carrots harvested Oct. I 5, 1917.

“Woods colorful just now,” Oct. 15, 1927. Two inches of snow, Oct. 15, 1937. Grackles still on North Shore Oct. 16, 1928.

Heavy white frost Oct. 18, 1920; so far, this year, as fine an . October as could be wished. Riverside or Sweet-scented Grapes, (Vitis vulpina) ripe on Oct. 20, 1922. (This year, 1938, the first bunch ripened Sept. 15).

Wild geese going south on October 24, 1919; a record of the coming and going of these birds would have a scienitific value in reference to weather cycles, and in regard to increase or decrease of numbers. '