Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-07-28
From the Cincinnati Price Curr d
The weather and the Crops

The weather has been decidedly cooler during
the past week. the range of the thermometer
having been % 10 90. during the night, and &c
To ~ during the day time The causes Of this
marked cheuge of temperature was heavy rain
which fell in the Northwest, though there has
been no rain in the Ohio Valley. aud the crops.
Including corn, grass. and potatoes are suffering
tor the want OF il. The accounts which we have
through the newspapers, and from the correspond
ents, regarding the crop OF spring wheat. in lii
nois especially, are quite discOuraging The
dry weather, first, and the 'chinch bug lastly.
have seriously damaged IT,
In all the district OF country tributary TO this
city, corn is backward for the want of rain
especially ON the uplands aud in order to make
1t an average crop. rain within the next week or
ten DAYS is indispensaby necessary In the bot
tom lands of the Miami and Sciota valleys the
plant is healthy though not forward as us ual.
but on upands the plants give unmistakable ev
dences of the want of rain. Oats have been
rpened up too soon by the scOrchng heat of the
first half o. the month"; but the crop will be fair
one. This drouth has extended IL al the Atlantic
States, from Maine To Virginia. aud il doing much
damage to the growing crops On Monday, "a
sutsrt rain fell Mt Pttsburg, but whether il was
general over the Allegheny mountain range, we
have not been able To ascertain
There has been great irregularitH in the diStri
button of the rains which have fallen during the
summer; in some places they have been frequent
whilst in others, and by far the greater number
of places, little or none have fallen The valley
of Ohio including all Kentucky and the south
ern parts OF Ohio, Indiana and Illinois have been
favored With frequent aud cOpious showers during
June and the forepart OF this month, but there
has been no Drotracted soaking rain and hence
il is that the ground Is dry. and the crops
much in need OF rain. On the Wabash VAL
lev. rain fell last week but in the interior Of the
State there are many places where none has fall
en- for five or six weeks.
The late potatoes Is suffering greatly, and the
crop must be short one, we fear. under any cir
cumstanees Now that the crop OF winter wheat
has been gathered throughout the whole country,
il has been ascertained that the crop is not only
good in quality. but the average yield per acre il
fully two-third one, taking the whole country
together; but in many places the yield is above
an average one per acre. and then when the in
creased breadth Of land sown last fall Is taken
into consideration, the quantity gathered, IL will
be found j. fully within one fourth of that of
1863
Barley Is very good. and as it was harvested
Ia dry weather. the color IS very superior We
understand that the new crop l. selling in the in
terror of Kentucky AT 81 81 per bushel.
In recent number We remarked that there
was less faxseed sown than in 1863, and We
based this remark upon the great falling off in
the amount OF seed loaned out by the crushers;
but since then have been informed that the
farmers last spring preferred buying their seed
TO borrowing il. so that they might be enabled to
act in making sale of their crop free of all Obli-
cations to crushers. and their experience with
tie crop of 1863 urged them 70 this course so
that the quantity of seed loaned by crushers IS
no indication ct The amount Gown. We are IN
formed
In Canada the Weather has been dry, and the
wheat is poor in some localities. Grass will be
short, aud 80 OF potatoes aud oats.