New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-28
NOTES or TIE ID-VVEST.

ONO Is suffering from Hard Times, in common
with her sister States, though not 20 severely as the
great Atlantic cities. The drouth and the weeyil
were very hard upon her farmers this season. The
Wheat cr,p of Tie State was not ten bushels per
LEES than haitian average yeld-mainly by reason Of
The weeyls desolstng avages In tho western halfof
tic State, where noet Wheat Is sown, the crop was
almost entirely cut of. Potatoes also failed in good
part Of the State and Indian Corn, the grea. staple,
especially cfthe ch valleys ofthe Miami aud the Sco
to- is hut ab0Uthalfa crop. believe the crops of Ohio
for 1854 worth forty millions Of dollars less than
full average crops would have been. OF course the
farmers ere compensated in part by the high prices
prevalirg; but these only shift the los from heir
shoulders to those OF the rest of the community.
Hence oil suffer alike, ard the money pressure is oil
but universal. With our heavy importations and
laDgui-hipg manufactures, we must have hard times
al best this winter; but the harvest failure through
great portion OF the United Safes aud especially
in the great grain growing States Of Ohio, Icdiaua
ard Illinois has given intensity to che general trouble
The counys lose by this failure fall short of
One Hundred Millions Of dollars, and it falls upon
Just shen Europe has trusted far as .he cin or
viii, and begins to pull up We shall not zee PSF
manent'y good times again until our Iron, Wooden
and other anufactures reinvigorated but good
harvest rczt season especially Il the European war
should co1tnue, will sensibiy mitigate the prevalent
sufferiDg. Ohios rich interyaes and broad plains
alone adequate TO the production Of more grain
than Great Britain will buy; and though it is very
bad wostcfu economy to keep farciers and manufac-
t1rers 80 far apart as British Manchester Gnl the
interyaos aforesaid, the resulting evil does not make
itself speedily rnsnifes, to careless obseryors.
Had the TILED lands of Ohio been lat po rel ak
inches deeper than they we're, which would not be
deep enough yttby foot the Corn crop Of the ST .te
would have been worth TT leas. Twenty Mlions of
Dollars more than ii is. Some farmers see this and
theIe will be more sub-so plOws sold in the State
within the next six months than have been from
Adams time I'll now.-True, the farmers do not
count onihe next season being dry as the last but
they will find deep blowing benef al if not as pail
paby necessary, in a wet in dry sumner. An
excess of .a.er passes quickly of through the same
loose and mellow subsoil which retains moisture te-
uaciously il burnin dr5uh.
There seems to have been less Wheat Gown this
lest IA! than usual owing TO Encouragement in view
Of tie rayages Of the Weeyl; but VIVA. rs on the
ground looks fairly in spite Of the early and severe
frost and the general abscrce Of snow The farmers
appear to have 10 idea Of eIresDg or mitigating the
WeeyLs raVages, out calculate that ne must be al.
lowed TO destroy tie Wheat for e years and then
pass away or be transformed into some insect Of less
destructive tastes And yet It does appear that gu ,h
an insignidc ant beast would not be allowed TO de-
prive Industry Of its reward AMI People of bread
if i; we're only resisted wisely and vigorously.
cariage-ride down the Scioto Valley from Colurn.
bus to Chilicothe did rot impress me with good
opinion OF The COZ n'growing which is there almos.
universal 1t ia Of course less exlausting where the
corn is fed out TO iatten buoeks on the ground than
where the grain is exported or sod to the dstil.
leriesi but crop after crop Of corn, with shalloE
plowing and heavy growth of weeds going to seed
in autumn viii gradually destroy any soil. Then the
great farms, often one thousand acres or more each
crowd out the school-houses and rsnler the social
aspects generally uninvitin half a dozen good
houses in township, with hundred or two cabins
but little better than negro-huts Not would take
NE some tine TO like the great growing region of
Ohio as at present managed.
Speaking OF Schoolhouses-the two finest new
structures saw in The course of riding twelve or e.
teen hundred miles in Ohio were the Angler House.
aspacious and admirable hotel just opened in CIeye.
land-and the Union School-house in Toledo. Ihave
seen larger school houses, but none more complete