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hollow log and found his store. Every one of those chestnuts was perfect. Now, if I’d tried to pick out the good ones, I never could have done it.”
Neither Mr. Weaver nor Mr. Pullen knew whether any of the old signs were reliable. “Now, we're not going down to the courthouse to swear by these,” Mr. Weaver said. "But this is what they used to say, long ago.”
Other plentiful crops are considered to be signs of a hard winter. Some other ways that mountain people used plants or crops to forecast the weather were: if blackberry blooms are heavy, it will be a bad winter. If carrots grow deeper, that’s a sign of bad weather to come. If sweet potatoes have tough skins, if onions grow more layers, if trees have green leaves late in the fall - all these are bad signs, except for skiers.
Arlene Frye had heard that heavy dogwood and holly berries forecast a hard winter. If this belief and that
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