Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-07-13
The Fruit and the Crops.

The Springfield, o., News says :r,., .....r
The young apples, we find, have generally
fallen off to great extent SO that there. will
be hardly half crop Peaches promise we'll
Pears will be of a fine quality and there will
be an average if not a full supply. Black
berries will be abundant. Our farmers are in
the midst Of, the wheat harvest. So far as we
have seen, the berry is plump and the heads
we'll filled. There are complaints of the fly
and of the rust, but we do not think extensive
damage has been done.
In this region the fruit prospect is about
the same as that described by the Neus.--
There will be but few apples 1t is said, how.
ever that the apple crop in the northern and
eastern part of the State will be large, ~
The Pcrryburg Wood County, Ohio, Jour
nal says:
We hear much complaint among quite a
number of farmers in this county of the prev
alance of midge or weeyil, in their wheat
fields We are informed by some that the ex-
will not produce enough grain to pay for the
labor bestowed upon them. Indeed, tits stated,
that some are cutting Oft the crop for forage,
and plowing their fields. How true this iswe
know not; others again inform us that the
alarm is greater among the, farmers than the
facts will warrant and that the depredations
of the weevil thus far are quite limited. The
golden straw and ''weevil proof wheat" are
not at all affected; but the destruction, if any,
is confined to the Mediterranean. That there
has been and is cause for complaint, we be-
lieve to be to q certain extent true, but we are
by no means prepared to endorse all the pam
icky stories that many farmers repeat who are
very ready to cry out starvation aud 'hard
times ,......r..... .,..
From neighborng counties in this section
of the State, similar complaints reach us. In
Van Vert, Paulding Defiance, Henry, San
dusky, Seneca and other counties the same
gloomy prospects and torebodings are enter
tained The Fremont Sentinel says
During the past few days we have heard
considerable about weeyil in wheat. Several
heads from different fields have been exhibited,
containing from ten to twenty of these de-
structives in a head Some fields will un.
doubtedly suffer much That their ravages
are very extensive or general, we consider ex-
ceedingly doubtful.
A correspondent in Erie county writes that
the prospects for fine crop week ago looked
well, but to-day we are not expecting to rea
lize one-fourth of a crop The midge, or
weevil as some call it, has destroyed acres
that, as | said before, looked fair for a yield
of forty bushels per acre.
The Paulding Gazette says:
The weevil has destroyed great portion of
the wheat crop in this county, the late heavy
rains doing but little to arrest its depredations.
The crop, as general thing, presented IA
vorablc appearance for more then an average
crop before this insect made its appearance.
In reference to the depredations of the wee
vii, the Sandusky Register says:
We have examined a number of fields, and
taken pains to inquire from the remote parts
Of the country, and as far as we can learn, the
wheat crop Of many of the best farms in the
country will be an entire failure
From these and other reports, it would seem
that the prospects of the bountiful harvest,
which were entertained few weeks since, are
sadly blighted but we trust these ravages will
not be found to as great an extent as repre-
sented.
The Dubuque, Qowa,) Herald Of the 9th
The forebodngs INDUCED in by farmers
throughout the State in the early part of the
season, now appear to have been without yeal
foundation. Notwithstanding the backyard
ness of the season, crops in the interior Of the
State were never looking better, or giving
greater promise of an abundant yield The
want Of rain was just being felt when the win
dows OF heaven were opened and liberal
showers fell upon the thirsty earth Nothing
suffered and if the warm summer weather now
returns, the prairies will be burdened with such
stores of grain as have never been witnessed
in Iowa. This is the news from all sections
of the State. s~ sR ~ -
In the Cedar Valley the richest portion of
Iowa, the small grains are in most flourish
ing condition, and the yield will undoubtedly
be larger than for years
The Galena CIR. Gazette of the 9th says:
The prospects of abundant crops the com
ing harvest are good, as.is confirmed by re-
ports from oil parts of the country. The
wheat harvest has already commenced in the
extreme southern counties of this State.
Here it is too soon to speak decidedly about
the crops of small grain. We hear however,
of no amount of damage by the chintz bug so
far. The late rains have been of vast value
to the farmers. The crop Of grain must be
excellent ~
Corn looks well for the season. and has al.
ways proved to be our most sure crop.
The Winona MINI Republican of the Oath
All kinds of growing drops throughout. the
state are now looking very fine The recent
rains have revived vegetation wonderfully, and
done an inealcuiabie amount Of good The
growing crop of,wheat never looked more
promising at this season 1t estimated that
the next crop will be The largest ever harvested
IN the State. Thus far the wheat crop has