Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-08-14
ON The WING.


Your correspondent, while ION the ulng,
bas been ia and through fifteen counties IN lnai-
ana twenty counties ia Ohio and two counues In
Virpinia. These counties in Indiana occupy toe
upper WabashVa alley and eastern central Indiana.
and in Ohio O central and northern central
locality. Throughout this extent oil country
your correspondent has. by such dilgent inquiry
and personal observation as an on the wing
trip permitted, a.certained the condition Of grain
mary.
WHEAT.
The wheat crop has been the most marked
failure In Northeastern Indisna IL has been
mostly destroyed by the red weevil. while lower
down the Upper Wabash il has been badly af
fected by rust and smut In Ohio 10 has been
either injured By the irosts of last winter been
caught by the honey dew Everywhere your
correspondent saw large fields uncut some even
unfit TO turn stock into. others laid open for the
revel OF hogs and other farm animals He also
learned OF other fields which, though cut and
shocked, we're afterwards determined TO be too
poor TO pay for the taking in and thrashing. For
example, OF the quality OF that taken in, be NAV
mention one instance where sixteen dozen, when
threshed out. yielded only bushel and peck
grain by measurement. which would be, proba-
bly, bushel by weight This was 10 Guernsey
county Ohio. Ia another instance. ten dozen
yielded bushel. This was Indiana wheat. In
some localities such wheat as was saved proved
to be sick wheat. and. therefore, was not fit for
man nor beast. Ia fine, il is not an exaggera-
ton to state that the present wheat crop will not
Yield more than third OF the annual average
product.
The oats crop has not been in a number oil
years so large "a the present season. Without
further detail, we may state that OF this cereal
we shall have full gamers
CORN.
The corn, & crop 90 forward and promising in
the early part OF the season, has been retarded
much by the incessant rains, which, | should
have presumed. prevailed Throughout, the entire
extent OF country under consideration. Some OF
the corn has thus been 80 much retarded that il
will have a tight race to escape the clutches oil
the early frosts of autumn. This is more parti
culsrly The case with the second and third plant
ings, which became necessary in some sections
on account of the ravages ofthe cut worm among
the first planting In some localities also. the
grasshopper is now doing damage to this crop
but still do not think II occasions any genera
apprehension
Ga the whole, however, in spite Of the esry
frosts OF autumn, in spite of the ravages
of the grasshopper, IL is safe to say OF
the corn crops OF isst season and OF this, iron
one extreme 10 the other" from the total alb
sence OF hoe cake and corn -dodger and must
and milk during the past year to a great sbuud
ance Of the same during the year 20 come
POTATOES.
Hail. Murphy o, thou delectable fruit 0
Erin! every dog has his day." thou art now Il
have thine. Were | poet would sing tn
song of the Potato That vegetable, that to tn
poor. is bread and meat and vegetable. com
bined. Add from the supersbundance OF tn
crop cosld think OF no better time (it being
question of inspiration to write such song thai
This season.
FRUir
NV space forbds details. or peaches tn
crop is small, but better than the severity of IN
fall and winter warranted expectations of. o
that great staple fruit. the apple. there wer
throughout this whole stretch of country. com
paratvely no signs. Orchard after orchard wa
closely scanned but the fruit was not TO be seen
The season. whether we consider the varyn
character OF the spring, the ncesssnt rains of To
early summer, the varying promise OF the Gro
and the ultimate results. must be considered a
an unusually remarkable one not to be forgotten
| soon. MEERscHAuk.