New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-09
THE AUGUST FROST.

The frost Of the 3ls of Augu appears to have been
more severe a, the West toan in any of the Eastern
Staie.. We give . few items:
FRosr Is wiscoSsS-A correspondent Of TIE
Chicago Pres g. Tr,Juse says under date of
CIiSIox, Rock Co, Wis. Sept. ?, 1859.
TIE frost of sst night hss done lie work thoroughly
in this potssoes and all vines are cut to the
ground. Corn Is very much Inquired, although sone o.
The fsmers think Dot enough 10 prevent It's msurinSi
aside from the juy by FROST the corn crop promises
well although It has been exceedingly dry for tro
mouths Wheat on this prsir. lJefsrsorl 10 exceed.
irsly good 10 quail " AID yields well. Probably 10
better was ever taken Oh thai TINS year.
The Mnwaukte Dem0c, az says:
"Soue fields Of corr low ground, whore frost 10
uniformly the mott severe, will no doubt Do nearly
ruped as il is row scarcely out of the milk Other
felds on high gr, uud have probably escaped 50 far;
but We have d'ubt that tire visits OF JACK Frost
will be repeated Until the corn cropi- greatly damaged
The prom lee Of the corn crop poor eooush IA al
conscience before tie frost of last night bat s stu
worse As tor potatoes the severe droah has %
checked their grosth tina, notbiog but good soaking
rain and the abserce Of iro-t for weeks vii make
them even tolerable CROP.
TAe JGntsriLe Ga.ttte -ays:
"a severe freeze Sunday night at Berlin hss cut
off the Last hope of any considerable amount OF good
corn 10 that region. This, so, with the continues
rrou h. has settled the potato business Grass on all
the upands dead Gays Berlin paper, and the co~s,
a. d cor sequence have pretty much dried up.
The Ripon Tunes says that severe frost on Friday
night cute off the lsst nope for corn ADD ackwheat
crops in that gon. L. also states that fires have
ragged extensively during he pas, week on the marshes
IN Green Lake and Marquette counties, and that hun
ore ds Of stacks If hay have been burned
The Baraboo Republic says:
4" Last Monday mornog black frost fell II this
vicinity and the cold intense ~ IN reese water
to the thickness Of nearly one quarter OF an inch This
IL the third time within seven years that froet mas
fallen on the 18th day Of August, says onr informant
no has noted them down the time Of their occur
renee"
FRosr IN IowA.-7he Davenport Gazette says:
lice formed in some D aces the sixteenth Of su inch
thick Vines Of different KINGS sufersd severely, and
the leaves of corn were frozen stiff We do not think
corn will be materially injured less We should have
a continuance Of the same cold nghts.
Frost IN MIcHIGAS.--The Detroit Free Press OF
Sept . ssys: Michigan has had frost every month
of 1859; tina. Of August has injured farmers slightly
Some corn on os ground, and buckwhes. fields arc in
jured little, but rot seriously"
FROST IL ILLISoIs.-Ihe Chicago Democrat says:
"The frost on the night Of the 3Ist ult, It s feared
has don con,ide rable damage. Tue buck wheat, it's
feared has been ruiled in the northern ceuotee OF the
ate and gre fesrs exprs ssed that the corn has
slso been damaged. H. McsUry County the frost was
quits severe. Ia pats OF Whitesde County, the cu
cumber ard tomato vice. sDd the ten Ter vegeta
bes ere nearly ell Destroyed. The Joliet True Dew
ocrat Gays at the froet Of rburdsy evening very
6. we're In that country 10 sections the crop
very senousy pjored aud The po 40 tops and vines
| are cut down 10 the ground