OLD-FASHIONED WINTERS. 13 Aug 1889. You get the impression the little ice age wasn’t forgotten yet. Let those who liked it migrate to higher latitudes.
“OLD-FASHIONED WINTERS.” The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser (NSW : 1856 – 1861; 1863 – 1889; 1891 – 1954) 13 August 1889: 7. Web. 15 Jan 2020 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/189968587?searchTerm=hot%20summers%20and%20cold%20winters&searchLimits=#
Let those who believe so-called old fashioned winters of intense cold to be conducive to health and successful to agriculture migrate to higher latitudes, writes Mr. Morgan Evans, in the Sanitary Annual.
We would prefer a country of vineyards and vegetable oils, one flowing with milk and honey, where ” consumption” is rarely known and the seasons mild enough to produce two farm crops in one year.
It certainly is satisfactory to know that so many people see naught but good in the climatic conditions of their own country,—that we British affect to desire very hot summers and very cold winters.
Blessed are they who enjoy hard winters.
The majority of us, however, have cause to regret their recurrence. The effect of inclement days is felt for a long time in broken health or in death to many—in increased mortality of man and beast.
To assume that a birth-place, because it is a birth-place, is the most healthy region in the world—that the agricultural practices of a district are of universal application, and depend
upon the cradle or manger in which one of many million inhabitants is born, are myths too absurdly ridiculous to be within the province of an innocent jest.