Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-24
CROPS IN OHIO.



Our exchanges in this state tell a sad
story in regard to the wheat prospects.
| The Ohio Farmer says:
every where through the State-frem
the line at the North, within which the
sound of the lsshing waters Of the a IS
heard, to the SUMMER fields and fatter soils
of the valley which opens out on the Ohio
we hear a fear expressed by the farmer
/ for the fate of his field. Scarce a shade OF
green is to be seen in the fields throughout
the State all are as crisp and gray as a
| clay meadow after the scorching heat and
drought of a burning dry summer-no
kindly coating of snow has saved the tops
from the rigor of the frost We find few
without fear that the extreme cold n ex-
posture have proved fatal to the root, put
ting the plant past recuperation-"
The T~uscarawas Advocate says:
From conversation with intelligent and
observing farmers from different parts OF
the county, We are led to the conclusion that
there will not be one-third of the usual
wheat crop"
A dispatch from near Columbus says;
IWhest is almost gone. Ground rather
dry. Farmers busy blowing. A little rain
would be very good"
Another says:
"Wheat is almost ruined. Apples look
fair. We need a little rain for our pastures
A dispatch from Fairfield, dated April
18th, says:
The wheat crop in this section is almost
an entire failure. l think it will average
ten bushels per acre Peaches are killed
The prospect for apples, pears and cherries
are very fattering."
A dispatch dated Findlay, Hancock
county, says:
wheat crop very uupromising-never
more 80. Many of the farmers are blowing
up their wheat for oats and corn. Some
few are experimenting in Spring wheat by
narrowing in on Fall wheat"
From the Miami valley we hear more
encouraging reports. The Dayton Journal
says:
ain some sections of the Miami valley tht
wheat prospect is represented to be toler'
ably fsir; and if we shall soon have a gen
eral rain, much of the crop that has beer
pronounced blasted will probably recover
so "a to be worth harvesting"
The Ottawa County Union has the fol
lowing:
"The wheat prospects in this county arr
rather poor. We nave not, as yet, seen o.
heard of but one good field of wheat"
The Tuscarawas Chronicles says:
"a great deal of alarm exists among thu
farming community of this county in rela-
ton to the wheat crop for the present year
It is said that there will not be over one
fourth of AN average crop that the wheat i
not in the ground TO produce more, having
been frozen and killed by the cold weather
Of the past winter. The winter of '65-6t
was undoubtedly a hard one for the whea
crop. The absence of snow, joined with Sc
we're cold at times, no doubt rendered th'
prospective crop, in part, a failure, but no
to the extent which farmers seem to think
The amount of wheat sown last fall wa
perhaps larger than for several years past
and should it, owing to freezing out, stand
little thin on the ground this spring; shoult
some fields be entirely destroyed, we havl
but little doubt the coming harvest will de
velop the fact that the yield in the county
will not fall much behind that Of forme
years.
Some farmers are so much alarmed in re
gard to what they consider, prospectiYely
a total failure of the crop, that they ar,
buying of our millers -four in considersbl
quantities to keep the gaunt wolf, hunger
from their doors. Others, more practica
have ploughed their wheat fields, and ar
putting in other grain. The result of tn
scare is, millers have advanced -four hft.
cents per barrel, with a prospect for q stil
further advance"