New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-27
NOTES ON THE MID WEST.

were very hard upon her farmers this season. The
Wheat crop Of the State not ten bushels per acre
lees than haitian average yield-many by reason OF
the weevls desoating rsvages In the western han OF
the State, where moot Wheat lie Gown, the crop was
almost entirely cut off Potatoes also failed IN good
part Of the State and Indian Corn the great staple
especially Of the rich valleys Of the Miami and the scio-
70, ia but about half crop believe the crops OF ONO
for 1854 are worth forty millions Of dollars lees than
full average crops would have been. or course the
farmers are ompensated in part By the high prlces
prevailing; but these only shift the loss from ther
shoulders 10 those OF the rest Of Me community
Hence all suffer alike and the money pressure 10 all
but universal. With our heavy importahons ana
lapruuhing manufactures, we must have hara times
at best this winter but the harvest faiiure through
ere a. portion OF the United States, and especially
in the great grain-growing States OF ONO, ladiana
and Illinois has given intensity to the general trouble
The counrys loss by this failure cannot fan short Of
One Hundred Millions of dollars, and it falls upon us
lust when Europe has trusted us as far ~ she can or
will and begins to pull up We shall not rec per-
manently good times again until our Iron, Wooden
and other manufactures reinvigorated; but agood
harvest pext season. especially if the European war
should continue, will sensibly mitigate the prevalent
suffering Ohios rich intervaes and broad plains
alone are adequate 10 the production Of more grain
than Great Britain viii buy; and though ii is very
bad wasteul economy to keep farmers and manufsc-
turers 90 far apart British Manchester and the
intervaes aforesaid the resulting evil does not make
itself speedily manifest TO careless observers.
Had the TILED lands of Ohio been last plowed six
inches deeper than they we're, (which would not be
deep enough yet by foot the Corn crop OF the State
would have been worth at least Twenty Millions Of
Dollars more than il is Some farmers see this; and
there will be more sub-sol plows sold in the State
within the next six months than have been from
Adams time till nOw.-True, the farmers do not
count on the being dry as the last bat
they will find deep blowing as beneficial if not as pal
pably necessary, in wet as in dry summer. An
excess of wa,er passes quickly off through the same
loose and mellow subsoil which retains moisture to-
nacously in burning drouth.
There seems TO have been less Wheat sown this
last fall than usual owing to Encouragement in view
of the ravages Of the Weevil but what is on the
ground looks fairly in spite of the early and severe
frost and the general absence of snow. The farmers
appear to have no idea Of arresDg or mitigating the
Weevils ravages, but calculate that he must be al
lowed TO destroy the Wheat for fes years and then
pass away or be transformed into insect of less
an insignificant beast would not be allowed to de-
prive Industry Of its reward and People of bread
if it were only resisted wisely and vigorously.
A carrage-ride down the Scioto Valley, from Column.
bus TO Chicothe, did not impress me with a good
opinion of the coingrowing which is there almost
universal. 1t is Of course less exhsustng where the
corn is fed out to fatten buocks the ground than
where the grain is exported sold to the distil-
leres but crop after crop of corn with shallow
blowing and heavy growth Of weeds going to seed
in autumn, will gradually destroy any soil Then the
great farms, often thousand or moro each,
crowd ont the School-houses and render the social
aspects generally unipv itiDg-half a dozen good
houses in a township, with hundred or Two cabins
but little better than negro-huts. Not would take
me time TO like the great corn-growing region of
Ohio as at present managed.
Speaking of charlottesville two finest new
structures saw in the Of riding twelve or ii
teen hundred miles in Ohio were the Angler House
spacious and admirable hotel just opened in Ceve-
lapd-and the Union Schoolhous in Toledo. have
seen larger school houses, but none more complete
and commodious than this. 1t far better ventilated
than any other school edifce ever saw, having Il
judge nearly half much ventilation as it should
have 1t is decidedly the finest edice in Toledo, as it
thoud be. Primary schools for very young children
will be continued in dereD. quarters of the city, but
all the higher Instruction viii be given here. So in
Columbus Cleveland, Dayton, Circeville, Massiion
and in the larger and more iourishiDg villages, was
glad TO notice large and good-looking Union School,
houses though that at Toledo seemed to be among the
best. did not, unhsppily often remsrk structures
of corresponding excellence in the rural districts. But
Ohio is doing very much for Popular Education at
present and its beneficial results will in due time be
manifest.
The Hog crop of this year would seem TO be a
large one in spite of the scarcity of grain; but OF
Cattle there are fewer now feeding in the region
than is usual at this season. 1t viii take very hard
times TO give us cheap Beef next summer
With Railroads, Ohio isperhaps as well traversed
as any other portion of the New World, Msssachu-
setts only excepted The south portion Of the
Stste-thst bordering the Ohio River below Isnes-
ville-is most in want Of them. The line connecting
Cincinnati with Marietta is stopped at Chilicoshe,
where it finds little business when few thousands
more would finish it twent, miles further into
jackson County, where it would strike ccai-oeds,
also ircns openiDg alarge business. Apresent money
il unattainable, but trust enough will be raised
somewhere TO carry this lire through 70 Marietta next
season. II traverses rich thriving country, AMI
cannot fail to do well unless too heavily loaded with
debt.
Generally, the Ohio Railroads are fregnting heavi-
ly ID spite of short crops and hard times but the
Lake Shore Road is doing beet. The two great lines
through our State, with many feeders, concentrate
their several streams Of western travel this road,
which is running very heavy trains nearly every day
Invent into Cleveland on ore consisting Of eleven full
nsssaDooy pu,nhsriDv lees than six hundred
persons, probably MALT Of them artisans and meehsn-
ics thrown ont of work by the reyusion in our Allan
tic cities and villages and migrating 10 new homes in