New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-05

rux Eryycr OF FRosr UPoS WHE,r.-we con.
mend that portion Of the following letter which ~
lates to bitten wheat, to the most careful Alta.
,ion of all wLest-growers. Let every one remembee
what is said for future use and be sure never 10 cut
bum. pasture or pillow up field smitten with Gos,
until YOU find out whether i; would not pay better 70
let il alone The statements Of our correspondent Ne
reliable. The letter was not written for publcste,
bu 10 one of the editors for private information. We
nevertheless take the liberty of making il pubic:
"ALLEGANY, n. Y, July % 1850.
"DEAR SIR: Soon after the great irost 10 June
wrote YOU respecting piece OF wLeat IN TINS IOWA
ststina that vas entirely killed that Il could not head
ont, and that there probably would not be peck
wheat in the whole four acres or a. should hsvesad
ter acres. Later observations ef Able me 10 correct
some of my statements, and to make some new ones
TIE wheat was killed, but only down TO the roots.
week or two after the frost gave thorough search
through the field and could nd but three heads grow.
ing near stump which in blossom. All che rec
witheIed and persisted. But the roots sent up new
shoots in great abundance and on the ith OF ouy'
four weeks after the FROST it all headed and begin.
ming to blossom. .-...
Present appearance: Tho wheat throughout The
field will not average over eighteen inches In might
In certain rich spots II is two feet high but mucn
ia not over foot in hight. The heads are small aad
short from one to three inches, but the msJority&
them not over two inches in length.
1.-THE weev has not touched it, though whsk
which rpened early, unitJureu oy Tue H"o wa" SncV-
ed by the weevl. The crop will DO ready to be bar
vested in two or three weeks, and there will b,
should Judge about one-sixh of an ordinary yield.
lone man, living back on the bills, says bis whsas,
growing on new ground and which was likewise killed
down 10 the roots will be third better than If the
frost had not touched il; but that can hardly credA
81 have also seen one piece OF rye which was cot
after the FROST that sprapg up again from the roos
and headed out at about two feet in hight but there
so little of that It will not pay for the harvesting.
I" Frosted 1rees.-The trees whose foliage we
killed by the frost have all pu. out new leaves SoUe
of the trees particularly the oak are now clad In thsu
third dresseshaving bee twice denuded by frost tbs
season.
Prospects Of the Potato Crop.-A word about
potatoes | do not remember ever to have seen pots
toes blossom so fully as they do thi, season. Some
fields are fairly white yellow or purple, according 10
the ysrietiesl with blossoms. l should think It was 9
favorable INDIGESTION showing that they are in sheahy
condition, growiIg according TO nature.
Corn il doing well; yet unless We have warmer
weather than getting, fear II will not cone
10 much. JAS. Ii. PARSONS
The Manifold Herald says that farmer in that
nee hborhood was utterly disguised at the ravsgx
the fro ct made with his wheat that he offered the sn-
tire product TO any who would stack up the straw
ard give it to him. couple of gentlemen residing il
Plymouth accepted the Offer and few days ago,
the wheat-about thirty acres-wss harvested and
thrashsd. 1t 10 said that the farmer was than
dissgreeably surprised when he learned the crop
yielded about tro hundred bushels.