Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-07-21
From the State Journal. July 9Th.
The Ohio Wheat Crop.
Freaks of the Frost-Tne Yield.

The Ohio Wheat Crop.
Freaks Of the Frost-The Yield
A very pleasant and instructive houl
may be spent at the rooms of Mr.. Klippart
Secretary of the State Board of Agricul-
ture, who has procured and is neatly ar
ranging in labeled cards, samples of wheat
in the head from about sixty counties o.
the State, embracing every variety grown ii
Ohio. Since the frost, Mr.. Klippart has
visited nearly all those wheat-growing re-
gions that were supposed TO be materially
affected by it. He has thus, by persona
examination aud by careful examination
and by careful inquiry of farmers all ovel
the State, collected large amount Of in
formation on which to base reliable esti-
mate of the probable yield of the present
crop. The samples brought home with
him and forwarded to him by correspon.
dents in the different counties, embrace
three varieties; one representing the aver
age character of the wheat in the county
one showing the extent of the injury done
to the fields that suffered most from the
frost, and the other includes specimens Of
extraordinary yield, in quantity and quail
ity.
We notice few of these specimens:
One sample of Belgium wheat was
shown us from the fields of farmer in
Clermont county, who just after the frost
was croaking that all his wheat was killed
His yield will be about thirty-fve bushels
10 the acrel The same farmer is now
croaking, because the abundance Of wheat
will make it so cheap that be cannot get
dollar and thirty cents a bushel for his
crop.
Another specimen of white blue stem
the heads about four in inches in length
seventy-three grains to the head, from
Clermont county. These fields were al
first supposed to be totally destroyed.
From Guernsey county the Pennsylva
MIA white wheat yields enormously. The
samples we saw were very fine.
To illustrate the extent of damage done
by the frost and cold, in several eountie.
where that damage was supposed to b
most serious, the following instance may
suffice. A field of E. Sherman, Huron
county, was supposed to be totally destroy
ed. The stems showed from eight to tel
plump grains. As each grain of wheat
sown, produces four stems, the yield i:
from so to 40 bushels for one sown, or
say 35 bushels to the acre; as only por
ton of the heads were injured.
Mediterranean, from Guernsy county,
an average yield, about 35 bushels to the
acre.
Australian wheat, SO grains to the head
from Richland county. Yield about 80
bushels 10 the acre.
The bald Mediterranean, having thick
er husk than any other variety of wheat,
is, in the opinion of Mr.. Klippart, less lia-
bic to the incursions of the weevil.
Several specimens of wheat were shown
us that were supposed to be killed by the
frost, but which having some signs of vi
lality at the base of the kernel, subsequent
Iy filed out. The berry, although slight
ly shrunken, was fully equal to ordinary
specimens. Another curious phenomenon
was observed. Some of the heads shown
US, were filled with perfect berries at the
top and bottom of tie heads, while those
of the middle parts were killed by the
frost. This is accounted for by the fact
that the berries at the top of the head, be.
ing the first formed, were beyond the reach
of the frost; those at the bottom were suf.
ficiently advanced to be affected by it; and
those in the middle were just in bloom
and of course were those most liable to
damage from the cause
As showing the difference in the yielc
depending upon the difference in soil
three specimens of blue stem were exhib
tied:
Holmes county-soil gravelly and sandy
heads small.
Franklin county-soil losnfy-head:
medium.
Morgan county-soil clay--heads large
The heads last mentioned, were more
than double the size of the first named.
To sum up-Mr. Klippart is of the
opinion that the aggregate loss by the frost
will not exceed the product of the six best
wheat growing counties in the State-say
three and half millions of bushels. The
crop of ls57-the last of which tables
have been made up, amounted to 25,397,-
GA bushels, and the number of acres sowr
was 1,s23,147. During the present yeal
there are at least two millions of acres
sown; the product on each aero escaping
the frost, being acknowledged on all hands
to be at least 80 per cent. above that Of
1857. After deducting the loss, by frost,
and adding..the increased per centage Of
yield and Of acres sown, the aggregate Of
the present crop will be at least five mil
lions of bushels more than that of 1857, OF
say, some three millions more tkan was
ever before raised in the State.
A French Woman makes the