The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-06-23
NO.26.

North. Without some other aud greater
calamity befalling the farmer, we shall
still hope for good wheat crop in New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, III
inois, &c.
As injury to wheat is nearly irrepara-
HE, We quote opinions from some of our
latest letters for what they may be worth
JaCa, Wyomjng Co, " Y-"Winter
wheat, We fear. is all spoiled"
Pleasant PlainS. Duchess Co., N. p
"The frost did very little damage here
to wheat and rye none"
Hamburg, Laurence Co., Pa-"It is
presumed that nine-tentbs of the winter
grain in this county is killed. The
fields show unmistakeable signs os being
killed, and they are changing from green
to white
Stoyruucca, Wayne Co.-"The corn,
beans. potatoes, &c., are all killed, bat I
don't know that winter grain is"
Mercer, Pa-"The Thermometer was at
% deg. /; will take few days to de-
termine whether wheat and rye are in
jured."
Jackson c. H., O.-"Fears are enter.
tained that wheat is nearly or quite ruin.
ed
Near Lexington, Perry County, Ohio.
-"All vegetation except wheat is killed,
That, except in low lands, it is thought will
not be injured"
Camfedd, MaAoning County, Ohio
wheat, it is feared, is seriously injured,
though it is impossible to say now to
what extent
LOdi, Medina County, Ohio-"Every
stalk of corn is killed, but we still hope
the wheat is uninjured. have examined
several fields, and think that, except
upon low lands, the crop is safe. We
here intend to look the calamity square
in the face, and, if energy and persever-
ance are rewarded, you will yet chronicle
good corn and wheat crop in Ohio, this
year"
PiaSburg, Pa.-"Tbe wheat we believe
to be but slightly injured, and rye not at
all.
Champaign County, W-"The Winter
wheat in bloom must be more or less in
jured"
Indianapolis, Ind.-"The wheat crop
will not be very great, but better than
last year."
Toronto g. W-"The frost was so se-
we're that all half hardy plants were kill
ed, yet wheat promises magnificent
crop,
Bourbon C6unty. hy-"Wbeat is re-
ported some what injured, but upon the
whole we do not think there is any reason
for serious alarm"
Ford Comfy. W-"Tbe corn will be
retardeG-not killed. Wheat is not in-
jured."
Caledonia, n Y-"An old farmer Of
Caledonia says that the recent frost bas
not injured the wheat, and be does NOT
believe that May OF June frost can in
jure that plant. He states that in 1916
there was late Spring frost in his Sec
ton. by which the stalks of wheat were
actually frozen, and the yield from the
same fields was forty bushels to the acre
of prime GeDesee."
SO do We remember the cold and frosts
of lSI6, and of several other years when
there was as great panic, il not as great,
an injury as now, and yet fair crops were
made in spite of cold and killing frosts.
The late frost has undoubtedly done q
great deal of damage, but the loss IS
greater in labor than in the yield Of
grain. A vast amount of labor to get IN
Spring crops has been done-more than
ever before, and some Of this must now
be done over. The wheat, rye and oats,
though injured, are not destroyed. The
loss is but partial-falling here and there
upon individuals rather than upon States
or whole counties. Where the wheat is
actually killed, plow at once and sow
6uckwheat, rutabagas, turDips, peas or
beaus. Don't let the ground lie idle and
run to weeds.
/ Corn in Central and Northern New.
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and
4 Iowa, is cut down. but unless it was ve-
ry forward, it will come up again. Don g
plow it up till you are sure it is past re-
covery, and then put in some other crop
10 its place, or in place of the portion thai
is killed.
Potato vines are killed, and in some
cases past redemption, while in others
they will start up again, and who can tell
that the frost will not prove blessiugt
and give us crop free from blight and
rot! As for the loss Of garden vegeta-
bes and fruit, that is more vexatious to-
, individuals than it is serious TO the whole
community.
What is wanted now is "energy and
perseverance," to put in substitutes for
crops injured, and determination to
"look the calamity square in the face"
aud the country will soon recover from
, the staggering Slow of the great June
frost.
A man named Dowry, for entering a
smoke house with false key. and steal-
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