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ALTHOUGH the

first

issue

was published

when George Washington was

president,

The Old Farmer'*) Almanac remains North

America's favorite annual source of wit, wis-

dom, and uncannily accurate yearlong weather

who

For the benefit of our read-

forecasts.

more durable edition, we have produced a limited number of copies of

ers

prefer a

this Special Collector's Edition. It contains all

of the material found in the 1995 bookstore edition printed

bound

on a high-quality paper and

in traditional library-style

ing. In addition to

hard bind-

our valuable astronomical

data, the aforementioned

weather forecasts,

gardening information for the year ahead, brain-teasing puzzles, and essay and recipe contests,

you

will find other useful

and enter-

taining information. For example:

"^ "Consumer Tastes and Trends for 1995,"

packed with

tips

and predictions on manners,

fashions, collectibles,

and home trends

for the

coming year. "^ "The Healthiest Vegetable of All," a paean to the vitamin«sr

and

fiber-rich

"The Most Prayed- For

II,"

a nostalgic look at the

Ernie Pyle,

who

lived

sweet potato.

Man in World War life

of reporter

and died with the

sol-

diers in the front lines. ts>

"Prizewinning Recipes from America's

Food Festivals, " a fine addition to the Almanac s on-going coverage of American down-home cooking.

^ "The Sinister Truth About Handedness," a memorable explanation of the differences between

and

lefties

and

ladies' shirts

righties, including

why men's

have buttons on opposite

sides.

We hope that you enjoy reading this 203rd annual issue as it.

much as we enjoyed publishing

We are comforted in the knowledge that these

Special Collectors' Editions will be around for

our descendants to read on the occasion of The OU) Farmer's Almanac's, 300th birthday.

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1995 Being 3rd after LEAP YEAR and (until July 4) 219th year of American Independence

Fitted for Boston and the New England states, with special corrections and calculations to answer for all the united states. Containing, besides the large

and the Farmer's Calendar

number of Astronomical Calculations month in the year, a variety of

for every

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by Robert B. Thomas

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Age appears best in four old wood to burn,

things:

old wine to drink, oldfriends to

trust,

and old authors to

read.

- Francis Bacon

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The Old Farmer's Almanac • 1995

Features

12 Consumer Tastes

& Trends

for 1995

28

The Revolution That Began on Tuesday,

The Practical

Pepper

October

Primer

23, 1945

(continued on page 4)

age

8

Index of Chartsjables, Forecasts, and Departments How to Use This Almanac Anecdotes and Pleasantries Aphelion, Earth

...30

...

214 34

at

Astrological Timetable

182 52-79

Calendar Pages Calendars, 1994-1996

224

Chronological Cycles

Church Holy Days Classified

33

Moon:

Astrological Place

Astronomical Place Full.

Gardening by Phases of

42

183,196 52-78

Rise and Set

30,52-78

34

Perihelion, Earth at

33, 36, 53-79

and Set

Symbols for

Ads

183

32,

40

34, 40, 52-79

Astronomical

Dawn and Dark Daylight Saving

31,52-78

Time

...

30, 62,

74

Earthquakes

33

Answers to

174

Recipe Contest

176

Eclipses

42

Eras

33

Essay Contest

Seasons

33

Stars, Bright

44

Sun: Declination

Rise and Set

Sun Fast

178

Sundials

for

117

Tidal Glossary

Foreword, To Patrons

8

Fishing, Best

Frosts and

Days

Growing Seasons

1

Glossary Holidays

Key

and Observances

Letters

Meteor Showers

2

...

Tides, Boston

Map of U.S.

118

Regions

Regional Forecasts

119 120-147

1.

New England

2.

Greater N.Y.-NJ

3.

Middle Atlantic Coast

...

124

4.

Piedmont*

...

126

5.

Florida

6.

Upstate

7.

Greater Ohio Valley

132

8.

Deep South

134

9.

Chicago

S.E. Coast

120 122

172

192

Day, Length of

36

General U.S. Forecast

183,196

Conjunctions.

Rainy Day Amusements

Forecast Methods

34

208 Planting Tables

Weather

32, 52-78

1995-1999

Planets: Rise ...

....

52-78

128

New York

& Southern

Great Lakes

30,52-78

130

136

10.

Northern Great Plains-

192

11.

Central Great Plains

140

32,52-79

12.

Texas-Oklahoma

142

31,52-78

Great Lakes

31

138

98

Tides, Correction Tables

194

13.

Rocky Mountains

144

38

Time Correction Tables

186

14.

Southwest Desert

145

36

Twilight, Length of

192

15. Pacific

Northwest

146

30,186 42

Windchill Table

Zodiac

50

180

16.

California

147

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160 Features Prizewinning Recipes

(continued from page 2)

from America's

Food

Festivals

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The Only American

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Fairy If It's

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A Compendium of

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it

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and Canada who

that readers obviously enjoyed. Their

this past

year with ques-

comments, and advice.

We

more mail than ever in our history.

Following a tradition begun by our editor,

dorph, reestablished

over the

all

tions, criticism,

the hun-

all

all,

Robert B. Thomas, we

first

tried to an-

swer every one. But, unlike Thomas, we replied with letters or postals. During Thomas's 54 years at the helm (1792-1846),

"To Patrons" section, then titled "Acknowledgments to Patrons and Correthis

spondents," served as the vehicle for Thomas's replies. It's difficult to imagine people today being as patient with that process. The reader who wrote Thomas in

became less serious. In 1949, for when a "Lulu B." asked Sagendorph "the actual number of snowflakes questions instance,

which

fell in

New England

during the

month of December 1947," he happily replied in kind: "Our count for that month is

inaccurate inasmuch as several of the

flakes which

fell

on the eastern

side of

Vermont became number of others which

Mount Mansfield

in

mixed up with a had blown up from the ground and had thus been already counted." There were, of course, lots of letters to do with

last

winter's weather.

Many

pointed

summer of 1802, for instance, asking how to make "hop beer" and raise "white

out that our forecast for the cold, snowy Jan-

clover seed" was required to wait until the

Northeast was, well,

1804 edition came out in the

of 1803 for

of perfect. True enough. We're adding some

the answers. Like today, people wanted

important elements to this coming January's

the

information in a big

— but apparently they weren't

hurry for

They

fall

must have been thickerwe are because Thomas's were often pretty blunt. "M. C.'s also

hints are unintelligible in

and futile," he wrote

1808 (he used readers'

initials only).

the 1830 edition: "J. B.'s riddle stale." In the next

New England and much of the let's

Northeast forecast and

say somewhat short

this

time

we

think

be pretty close to the mark. We'll see. However, one of our favorite letters, from J. P. D. of Deny, New Hampshire, said our January 1994 forecast was indeed "perfect" we'll

it.

skinned than replies

uary 1994 in

is

In

rather

paragraph, perhaps

thinking he'd been overly harsh on

J.

added he might nonetheless use

his sub-

B.,

he

mitted riddle the following year "should

not a better one be offered."

After Thomas's death in 1846, subsequent editors took over these pages in his name. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, several editors ignored the tradition, but the 11th editor,

Robb Sagen-

"Your forecast for January 21-24 would be sunny and very mild," she wrote, "so we decided on January 22nd as our wedding day. It was sunny and cold but warmer than it had been all month. So to me it was perfect. Thank you." S. G. of Brooklyn. New York, suggested we drop the word "Old" from our title in order to dispel the notion that The Old Farmer's Almanac is a publication "only for curmudgeons with windcracked faces and soil-filled broken fingernails." Problem is, S. G., that the word after

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The 1995 Edition

of

The Old Farmer's Almanac Established in 1792

and published every year

Robert B. Thomas

thereafter

each year, it nonetheless is the oldest continuously published periodical on the

(1766-1846)

FOUNDER

JUDSON D. HALE MANAGING EDITOR: SUSAN PEERY EXECUTIVE EDITOR: TlM CLARK

EDITOR (12th since 1792):

ART DIRECTOR:

Sr.

MARGO LETOURNEAU Richard Head

WEATHER PROGNOSTICATOR: Dr. ASTRONOMER: Dr.

GEORGE GREENSTEIN

Lida Stinchfield editors: mare-anne jarvela,

COPY EDITOR: associate

Debra Sanderson Anna Larson,

archivist:

North American continent. J. L. C. of Arroyo Grande, California, wrote to say she was about to have an operation and did we know the best time to spay female dogs so that they don't gain weight afterward, and do our animal

Mary Sheldon

lorna trowbridge Castle Freeman Jr.,

Fred Schaaf, Astronomy; Jamie Kageleiry PRODUCTION DIRECTOR: JAMIE TROWBRIDGE PRODUCTION MANAGER: Paul Belliveau PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: CLARE INNES

Farmer's Calendar;

LUCILLE RlNES, David Ziarnowski

SENIOR PRODUCTION ARTISTS:

is

the best an-

to refer to a letter

us to not

recommend (as we did shampoo on dogs,

using cheap

"dogs

M.

ain't

people

last

year)

said that

ain't dogs."

C. of Dorchester, Massachusetts,

asked the name of the

first

U.S. president

United States (Martin Van Bu-

born

in the

ren).

And T. C. M. of Chicago, Illinois, sug-

gested the 7,500 pounds of paper punched

CHRIS SlMARD

PRODUCTION SYSTEMS COORDINATOR:

maybe

from D. P. H. of Colorado Springs who, after admonishing

swer

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS:

PRODUCTION ARTIST:

Moon-

phase charts for such things work on people? Oh, dear. Well,

ASSISTANT EDITORS:

Jody Saville,

"Old" has been part of the copyrighted ti1858, and besides, although everything in the Almanac is brand-new tle since

Steve Muskie

out of the Almanac's "hanging hole" each

year be used "for gerbil nest bedding." Nice GROUP PUBLISHER:

JOHN PIERCE

SHERIN WIGHT SARAH DANFORTH MAILORDER MARKETING MANAGER: Deb WALSH SPECIAL MARKETS DIRECTOR: RONDA KNOWLTON PUBLISHER (23rd since 1792):

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT:

M.

A good number of all these sorts of letters received last year

Martha Benintende RlTA TROUBALOS, Manager; Stacy Chansky, Lori Hill

ADVERTISING PRODUCTION:

— and every year —

are addressed to Robert B. has, of course,

MARKETING RESEARCH MANAGER:

NEWSSTAND

idea, T. C.

Thomas, who

been resting peacefully in the

cemetery at Sterling, Massachusetts, for almost 150 years. No matter. He'd be pleased.

He'd like knowing his relationship

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Joseph B. Meagher, Senior Vice President;

The Old Farmer's Almanac cannot accept responsibility for and will not return any manuscripts do not include a stamped and addressed return envelope.

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name

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Consumer Tastes & Trends

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1995

CONSUMER Trends

Tastes F

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9 5

by Jamie Kageleiry

1UU1HH Generosity

v&

Is in Style

Since 1959, the year

pins,

and that means

more

strikes for bowlers.

In Rochester, apparently,

more

people

helped

strangers (researchers)

The Land of the Fat Free

who dropped pens, asked

3"

directions,

In 1960 North

Amer-

and pretended they were blind while

the Trust for Philanthropy

icans were eating diets

started tracking charitable

that were 40 percent fat. That number has fallen to 34 percent, and cholesterol levels have fallen

crossing the street.

along with

was found to be the "most

weight of the average young American (between the ages of 25 and 30) has risen ten pounds since 1986. Given

Amer-

the drop in cholesterol

America, the tomoney given each year

giving in tal

has risen. Even during the eighties, the

supposed

"decade of greed," giving grew faster than the economy. In 1992, the last year tabulated, Americans gave $124.3 billion to charity (and only 11.5 percent of it came from foundations and corporations).

Where

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IIAIIUWS

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Go for Help

"3" Rochester,

New York,

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and total fat intake,

ican cities in a study con-

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That's about $450 from

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Bowling Scores Are Expected to Rise "S" thanks to a better bowling ball. Science has dedicated its efforts to producing a high-tech bowling ball, called a "re.

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Weekdays are warmer. By at least .04

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A resin addi-

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it's

to the increase in pol-

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heat activity" like cars and

action on lanes, which

means the

degree Fahrenheit.

Climatologists believe

tive allows for better re-

12

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the bad weather gangs up on the week-

factory

smoke)

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the air on

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from, but which glen, which brook, distiller. Since there's a good money in Scotch, a lot can hang on the findings of an expert nose. Why couldn't the same apply to wood sniffing? Firewood dealers are a tough lot, almost the last of the old-time free-booting capitalists. The buyer needs all the help he can get. sniffer who could knock ten bucks off the price of a load for an off-scent would be a valuable man.

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DECEMBER, The Twelfth Month

1994

Venus climbs higher in the east before dawn, reaching its greatest brilliancy on the 9th. Golden-orange Mars now rises in the east in the late evening, brightening to rival the glorious winter stars. The Pleiades and the arrowhead formed by Aldebaran and the Hyades in Taurus lead a throng of brilliance in the southeast. At the top is Auriga with yellow Capella, at center Orion with his three-star belt and Rigel and Betelgeuse, with the two Dog Stars, Procyon and Sirius, following. We must wait until after late moonsets to see the Geminid meteors on the 13th and 14th. There is a close conjunction ofJupiter and the Moon on the 29th. Winter begins at 9:23 P. M., EST, on the 21st.

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has many names, and if it's true, then this trillium must be a favorite. Books on wild plants give at least 16 different common or local names for T erectum. Two of the more memorable names stinking Benjamin

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and wet-dog

trillium

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balm, squawroot.

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for this flower

is

name that seems to example of the highest What does it mean? It sounds as though it meant that this flower's blooming coincides with, and thus somehow signals, the spring arrival of the robin. But it doesn't, at least not around here; when our wake-robin comes out, the robins have been here for weeks. wake-robin, a

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