Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-06-16
Line Of the .Frost--Its Effect.

readers as that of .the crops" we will be
pardoned even for an excess of zeal in col
lating, and weighing the accounts, as we
receive them, of damage done by the late
great frost. Ithas been q noticeable fact,
that while many statements of.individuals
would lead US to suppose that the crops
are entirely destroyed, the evidence of the
newspaper is by no means discouraging.-
Newspaper estimates are made from a mnl-
.tiplicity. of witnesses, whereas individual
statements partake very much Of the dis
position of the man; and the test stimony- of
a produce dealer, or of a farmer whose crop
has suffered in the least, we are sorry to
say, should be taken with great caution
We therefore give the weight of evidence
to the newspaper accounts and to those
men who have no sax to grind" either as
producer or spsculator. as
The black line of that great frost EXTEND
ed from about Auburn, N, Y, on the
North West, to Columbus, Ohio, on, the
South West. This line straight as a
stretched string, shows the sdeadliest track
of the frost. Of course there was frost be-
yond these extremes but the loud com
plants of damage can be bounded by these
points. Off towards the Lakes and Ohio
River the the frost shaded down until at
these waters its ravages were, comparative-
ly, inconsiderable. : a-.s-s-E -.
The damage done to the wheat crop
for SO far asseorn and potatoes and garden
crops are concerned thereis abundant time
for them-we believe is not over one1third
of a. crop, and taking into account the
the breadth.of ground sown, the crop. will
be what, of late years, has been deemed an
average one. If the cold has killed the in-
sects there has been a benefit which may
even exceed the ipjurysb the frost. -
The injury to. the. fruitscrop has been
more serious; resulting, probably, in the
loss OF one half .sev ~ ~ szz1s A.
The frost of Friday night, the l lth, was
much more serious through Michigan than
was the one zof the Saturday previous
The last one cut down the gardens, killed
much of the grape crop and in the Grand
Rapids valley injured the wheat Still
there seems tesbesno' cause for alarm
Cleveland Herald, June.13.l} e7odagygst
2. = -. .s.sa. IL ses-s
FURrHRR OF THO FRosr.- Maj. Cary of
this city has returned from Delaware coun-
ty and thereabouts, and reports discour
aging state o., things SO far as The wheat
crop is concerned. A few days sun is ex-
pressing the injury from the actions of the
frost and many of the fields supposed to
have escaped injury are showing the fatal
symptoms premature ripeping Of the
straw. = -
Mr.. o. E. Dodge has handed in hand
fol ofapples, pears, gooseberries, &ca pluck
eG in the townshipsof Aurora which show
that the frost did its perfect work there,
In that township the frost was SO thick
two hours after sun rise the morning after
its visitation, that snow balls were made
from. it. - 49,
From the West as far as the Mississippi
barring the first fifty miles from this
the crops in every respect so we
earn from Mr.. Atwater, are as good as
they can. be, and never was there bright
sr promise Cleveland Herald, June IA.
T.