Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-02
Editorial corresponden4e e.

9alOtla1 COrrespOndeu4c
LAPoRrE, July 27l 1855.
Rain, rain, Sain.-When win it cease TO
rain p? The first question that was i slzed me,
after reaching home on Friday Ahsi, was,
docs it rain all the time at indianapolis 2n
1t is probable that ther6 never has been a
time, when excessive rains have prevailed to
a greater extent throughout the Wesi. than
during the past two or-thrae weos Very
many farmers in this section Of Indiana. un-
I'll within the past tweuty-four hours. had
well nigh dispaired Of securing the,one half
Of the Wheat crop produced. Wis staple
had matured to a degree Of perfection weTl
calculated to I'll the heart Of the Agrical-
turalist with satisfaction. The cold Of win
ter, the frosts Of spring, the insects ard the
rust had all failed to iniure the growing crop.
As chat throughout Illinois, Indiana and
Michigan the harvest promised was greater
than any ever before known Uulikc the
Wheat growers Of Europe, our own expert
ence made US feel, when our reapers were in
the field, that the crisis was past and that
then we could calculate with certainty on
the extent of the fruits Of our labor. In
England the rains and storms, incessaht at har-
vest time, are the farmers greatest source Of
anxiety and trouble. lie never feels that he
can calculate upon his crop until h.--heat is
thrashed and safely gamered.
We, the people Of the wheas- gowing
West have this season, been afiofao an ex-
perience similar to that Of our bred rer over
the waters. While We may, therefor the
more sincerely sympathise with thetn, in an
evil which surrounds them every SCI son, il
our duty also to take the adyan.ageian reap
the fruits of their experience as "a as it is
possible for US to do so. In this latitI de there
is some wheat yet standing, and mud IA IN the
shock which is very materially iniuA sd by its
unfortunate exposure 1t is probabl that in
every hundred bushels threshed thsre coul
be found from one 70 five bushels ii grains
that have commenced the germinsling pro-
cess. One bushel Of heated wheat. ~'-sitered
through hundred bushels Of an article per-
fectly sound, viii diminish the value Of the
entire quantity at least ten per cent Putting
e the price Of wheat, then, upon tae farm
where 1t is grown, at one dollar to the bushel,
and we find that the prolucsr could equally
as well afford to alroC a,0ay ten bushels ont
of every hundred Of his crop as to Ssrnit one
bushel of injured wheat to be mikeh with a
hundred that is sound. ! would lie TO inn
press this fact, for fact it is, forcibl -<On the
consideration Of the farmers Of Indiana Let
them By al means separate witlrthe-grestest
: possible care, previous to threshint every
sheaf that is grown from the sound grain
Very much money viii be saved directly by
such a course, and in addition 10 fhis, our
credit in the New York market as "a wheat
producing State would be fairly maintained.
As vet l have seen but few Of the Demo-
ciacy of this section Of the State. Those
have met with speak in the most confident
terms of the prospects Of our party, and express
themselves as highly pleased with the call
which has been made fora Democratic Mass
: Convention &C indianapolis on Inc 18th OF
t next month. LaPorte county Slone asfar
removed as she is from head qu1rtsrs> will
send out more than one hundred delegates
at that time.
i | have had some very interesting CONVEX
sations during my journey thus FER with
some Old Line Wings, but knowing ihat the
! readers of the Sentinel have enough ~ poll
I tics without getting that article through my
correspondence, will have mercy IN their
! feeling aud refrain for the present.
: If find that the oomlosilcrs, alb
: sencs, is able TO decypher my chir5'>s'I'hy 50
! as not to make complete nonsense oui ef what
| say, | may write frequently dung my
journey in the East which l shall 81 ont
4 upon tomorrow, in the mean time,
i HouTs, Respectfully, J. c. W.