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and birds have an instinctive knowledge of the weather to come and react accordingly. Other signs are more mysterious, and have been handed down from less scientific times. You can believe them or not, but they’re fun to know.
Arlene Frye of Slate Mills told us that a heavy crop of nuts and acorns mean that squirrels are preparing for a harsh season. Most of those we interviewed repeated this belief and Mr. Stant Weaver and Mr. Bob Pullen said that a heavy crop of anything is supposed to mean a hard winter ahead. Mr. Weaver added that persimmons in abundance forecast a lot of cold weather. “And chestnuts and hickory nuts, especially,” Mr. Weaver said.
“You'd better believe that squirrels know the nuts that are good from those that are not. Have you ever tried to pick up chestnuts after a squirrel? Every one that they leave is bad, rotten. I followed a squirrel once to a
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