The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-07-30

brAted Sam Pike is to start a National Dem
ocratic paper in Quincy in opposition to tn,
Douglas concerns
For the Gate City.
crops. weather. &C.
NEW BosTeS, July %, '5s.
MEssRs. EDITORS: In my last to you no
ted that the oats crop would be nearly fail
ure. 1t was then matter Of some doubt
but it is now no longer so, and it may nov
be recorded total failure. The same i,
very nearly true of the wheat in my section
that have heard from. But little of twill
be reaped at all, as any effort that way would
be like Shcridan's "0ut of breath to no pur-
pose, and very busy about nothing" An
extremely urgent prospective necessity has
coerced the cullipg out of the hes; patches
in some fields, and once in considerable
while you may note field entirely cut down,
hu, the rule is TO slip out couple of rails
of the bottom Of the fence and let the sw insh
herd in.
I Al! this is quite calamity enough, one
told yet. 1t is perhaps understood well
enough that the low price that wheat has
Been qqo,ai At for the last few months has
bad the usual effect Of keeping back large
, amount until she market got liverier. This
is still 10 the granefies throughout the coun-
try. fBut the heat of the weather and ex-
cessivc humidity Of the atmosphere has
ruined very much Of it. Some have moved
their wheat from the usual repository to
their parlors, and kept FIRE in the room and
scooped it backward and forward continual
~, to keep it dry and from sticking together
like vast loaf, and heavy, fl. only to be
pried out with handspikes.
am informed that your neighbors Of the
"post," in their issue Of Saturday last, cell
ebrated the praises of the abundant crops Of
said cereals, and that 10 recent journey
through the country, radiating 100 miles,
they had heard only two farmers complain of
shortness Of crops. Farmers are not in
the habit of wasting their breath in serious
.onro.so.;o ;,h Ia $500 - 80
ninny- hammers hence the correctness of
,hat ;onr,o1 y, ,ha a,,a, ;.a .,.a
time.
The grass crop was good, but my opinion
is, that large amonst of it will be about
ru,ned 9TH Tho ro;r. rha ,n;n;,;a,aa :,
,beso a,,o-s - ,, -,
,on.h - h !; 80,
oncs even ,,h;lst . s,e.ossio, 80 aho
will n;..1a
Tho ,orr o,nn IA, r,r.
Iii.
cara for ~. 80,
s,rris. .ha,, ,l,,, rot,
~ o.o, s,.;,,.
co,n,oao,o :,
/ lievea hv . l;t,,s Gsn.- =, ~ o,.,, - =
tho ,;,s, :, rosonna -.
,h.t ,hara 80. .o,t;, 60 - !,
We oouiu
/ I'VE en- hazie-na's ana ouck"heat. could
only help the righteousness Of the remark by
! suggesting GREEN snectacles for TN ..,,l.
I'D hosas =.
''.ns wv oo".nb "ih'er' 10
ueceNe them into general eating OF dry
/ brush.
I Bat to be ser;ous ava,n. am No, s,-
nr;so, =, ~, 80.
! wy o VI WINGS casting.
nave peen announcing 1t TO some OF my
neghbors with somewhat Of timidity) for
I three or four wears mast. and irving n COS,
them into n nre,ara,;a 49, !,
~. "' pus 'ney
Mouiuht PC my diseipies. The storm king
has backed my assertions, however, and with
/ this practical illustration of theorv wa w;ll
N $780, ~ l,\ ~ ,on, -. =,
f''p"'V - ~ ~ 'oi 1855 "nirn VIII
De Jasi so hgain, II time also remains
! Would it not be worthy the attention OF
s.;a..;s
/ =, ,has. .;a.,. -, 1890.
"a ''ss0 p'i'oa'o wei uisu'cts rs they pass
around the earth IRON cast to west once in
/ seven years, and give them a place in onr