The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-12
Correspondence Of the Journal Of Commerce.
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AURORA CAYUGA LAKE, June %, 1859.
have just returned from journey to Sandusky
Ohio, during which many opportunities occurred
for obtaining information concerning the state of
the crops in various parts of the country BY CONVEX
sation with my fellow passengers. | took some
pains to talk with farmers and also made good use
of my eyes.
| had seen nothing of the June frosts at this place
and observed but few signs of injury done by them
on the shores of the Lake, in the elevated valley
through which the railroad passes from Ithaca to
Oswego upon the Susquehanna flats. heard of
lost and other damages at various places, but
so far could be seen from the cars, everything
looked to be in good condition 1t was plain that
the corn had recovered or been replaced. Though
not large it was handsome and nearly all the far
mers seemed busy cultivating it.
No sooner however, did the cara begin to rise on
the Erie Railroad and of the valley of the Susque
hanna than the scene changed Wthered leaves
hung from the shrubs and became more numerous
as we proceeded. Farther on | saw the numerous
sumac bushes blasted from top to bottom then but
ternut trees with all their leaves black, withered
and hanging like dirty rags from the ends of the
limbs then pasture white oaks with their foliage
in place but dry and beached as in mid winter:
sycamore trees stripped entirely naked evergreens
with jagged ends like thorns; meadows and woods
that seemed to have been scorched by fires Final
ly, the mountain sides became almost gorgeous with
variegated tns as in Autumn, and no broad spaces
of continuous green remained except the orchards
and oat fields. So near approach to desolation
seemed quite too much to have been produced by
the cold of summer alone. --
On nearing the shores of Lake Erie the traces of
the frost became less numerous and gradually d.
minshed towards the West; yet Immediately upon
the banks of the Lake, at its South Western ex-
tremity, tufts of dscolored leaves are not I'M
frequent upon the shrubs even at the waters
edge.
On returning, | went from Dunkirk to Buffalo
The 10 jury to foliage is greater on that line than
between Dunkirk and Cleveland Probably the
waters of the Lake give better protection to its
Southern than its Eastern shores; for have good
the line of greatest cold ran from North East
to South West, and passed to the South of Cleve-
land.
From Buffalo to Rochester the marks of the frost
rapidly diminish, and between Rochester and CAV
uga they entirely disappear.
Why the fruit trees should retain their foliage
against frost that doubt not has killed outright
many forest trees is entirely beyond my comprehen-
sion; yet in many instances have seen apple and
even peach trees standing in undsturbed verdure
py the side of butternuts and sycamores which
showed no sign of life. Fruit or not is another
question entirely The frost was very capricious in
us attentions to fruit. The Horticultural Societies
oi estern New York at their recent meeting clio
lted all possible information as to its action nnon
the grape but the statements of the members were
so lrreconcable as to leave but one general conclu
SION, namely, that large portion Of the promised
Irult and many of the vines are DESTROYED This H.
all, in substance, that can saw about fuit in en
eral. Just before my eyes, as write, the annie
trees groan under their burdens and that Is a1 IF
our fruit that Workers interested about - -
have already mentioned the green color Of oots
where every other crop seemed blasted; and 90 fa
as my eye could judge, the oats looked best in tha
region where the frost had done its worst 'N'
oats, however, are universally spoken against