Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-06-15
FROSTY ITEMS.


calities, from which persons can draw their
own conclusions as to the extent OF the dam
age done by the late frost.
The Peru, Illinois, Commercial says :-Thi
section of the country was visited by regq
November frost, and ice one-oighth of an in
thick was formed in exposed places. We fea
great damage has been done to the crops.
They have been harvesting in the southern
part of the State for two weeks, and early va
rieties Of cherries are now about ripe in this
latitude.
The Chicago Press, published in the very
s'centre of wheat,'' says: ssIt is thought by
good judges here that the spring wheat is too
far advanced to be much damaged; but late
winter wheat in bloom, must be more or less
injured.''
q We don't hear much about the frost in the
State of Indiana, from which we infer that
there is not much to complain OF. The Indi-
annapolis Journal of the 9th says that in Foun-
tain and Warren counties, and in that region,
no injury was done to the grain crops; fruit
and potatoes may be injured, and corn sscut
down" in some localities, but the damage is
comparatively slight.
Accounts from Ohio are conflicting. In the
Muskingum valley, neither wheat, corn or po-
tatoes are seriously damaged. In Clark and
Montgomery counties, corn and potatoes are
injured. In Medina, corn hurt-wheat safe.
In Mahoning, wheat injured. In the vicinity
of Bucyrus, considerable damage. About Ra-
VIENNA, wheat injured some, but good prospect
for fair crop yet. In Wayne county, some
wheat fields injured-fruit nearly destroyed.
Iu the Big Mama Valley, the corn crop in
jured-wheat but little. Around Columbus no
damage TO wheat.
The Cleveland Herald says, the line of frost
in Ohio seemed to have been from Lake to
River, but severest in the centre, and shading
n. -, 4 <ln,&1 .tI hp.
ders of these waters the effect was slight. The
injury was not very serious further than mid
way, East and West, in the State. Unfortu-
nately the frost took, in its course, some OF
the best wheat portions of Ohio
In Pennsylvania, the severe frost was con-
fined to about one-third of the State, embIa-
cling the western, most of the northwestern
and northern counties, and glancing OFT to-
wards the centre of the State. The Southern
and Eastern counties escaped with but little
injury.
New YoRK.-The Syracuse Standard has
heard of no damage to anything in that neigh
borhood. ss
The Auburn Advertiser says the damage is
confined to plants and vegetables.
The Binghamton Journal has heard from diff
ferent parts of Broome county, and the reports
are that it has done much injury, especially
to garden vegetables.
The Buffalo Express states that all vegeta-
bles which frost affects, and fruit of all kinds,
were to all appearances killed.
The Albany Journal says in that vicinity no
serious injury was done.
The Rochester Democrat says the thickness
to which foliage has attained saved fruit gen.
orally, but grape vines suffered to consider
able extent. Cucumbers, young beans and
vegetation of that sort got badly nipped, but
some of them will recover.
In Wyoming county, the winter wheat, it is
feared, is all spoiled.
In Duchess county, ssthe frost did very lit
tie damage-to wheat and rye none.'
In Wayne county, ..sthe corn, beans, pota-
toes, &c, are killed, but don't know that
winter grain is.
An old farmer of Caledonia says e.fhat the
recent frost has not injured the wheat, and he
does not believe that May or June frost can
iDjure that plant. He states that in 1916 there
was a late Spring frost in his section, by which
the stalks of wheat were actually frozen, and
the yield from the same fields was forty BUSH
els to the acre OF prime Genessee.'
The wheat in Western New York has gener
orally escaped, if injured, it is but slightly.
The st. Paul, Davenport, and Dubuque pa
pers say, s'the frost did no damage there
The Iowa papers say ssthe wheat'is all safe.'
The Louisville (Ky.) papers say there were
were some traces Of frost there, but not the
slightest damage.
The Newberryport, Massachusetts,, Herald
says ssin that section it was severe enough to
nip early beans, but reports no other damage.
The Lowell Journal says, ssthe frost appears
| to have been quite destructive to tender plants
| in many places. Corn, beans and other vegc-
| tables, in some instances, were killed.
The Portland (Maine) Argus says it will re-
| suit disastrously to those two favorite Yankee
esculents, pumpkins and beans.
| In Connecticut and Rhode Island the frost
was quite sharp, but we can hear of no dam
age being sustained.
The yoluminous reports from Cleveland pa
pers, covering the whole Western Reserve,
Northwest Pennsylvania, Northern and Cen
tral Ohio, and the upper portion of Indiana
are also encouraging.