The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-14
WEATHER, CROPS AND GRASSHOP.
PERS IN THE EAST.

We gather few items of interest to
our readers, from exchanges and letters
from the Eastern States, which show
that it has rained in streaks" in that
country as well as this, and that Ate
crops are more seriously affected by
the hot weather than here.
A letter from st. Charles, Illinois,
published In the Aurora Beacon has
| the following in relation to the late
cheated term:"
The weather for three weeks has
been terrible, the thermometer ranging
| from 81 to 106 deg. in the shade, and
no water to cool us for an hour. While
there has been refreshing rains all
about US, we have had only skies of
brass above us, and parched and gap
ing ground beneath our feet. Gardens
are suffering, and men go about the
streets saying, hot, hotter hottest
"When shall the end bel"
A letter from Prairie City, McDo-
nough county, Illinois, says:
Harvest is good-wheat from Is to
20 bushels to the acre. The crop OF
corn in this section looks bad. We
had no rain from the 5th of June until
| the 3lst of July sufficient to wet the
roots of corn and potatoes. 1t rained
in some places, but none in our section.
The bugs are taking all the potatoes, OF
both kinds. The weather has been
very hottie thermometer ranging
from 90 to log in the shade. There
were several sun-strokes in the neigh
borhood. Several horses died in the
fields while running reapers."
A letter from a relative to one of oul
citizens, dated Indianola, Warren coun.
ty, Iowa, says, as an excuse for not
writing sooner, that they had been
busy fighting grasshoppers in order to
save enough of their crops to run them
through the winter.
The Clinton (OhiO) Republican Of
last week thus notices the appearance
of the choppers
"These pestiferous insects are be-
coming very numerous i'll this vicinity
In some localities they almost amout tt
a plague, literally swarming in the
meadows. Very luckily the hay croI
had been generally harvested before
they appeared in sufficient numbers t.
injuA it,
The following is an extract from /,
letter from New Castle, Pennsylvania
to citizen of this county, dated Jul,
9th:
awe have had the warmest weathe
here that ever was known, and no rail-
for long time till within two weeks
. There has been several cases of SUI
, stroke. Farmers are busy harvesting
Wheat and oats are good. Hay is Onl,
half crop, and selling at the meadow
! for $50 per ton. Corn and potatOe
look tolerably well, but the potato
bugs are eating up all the tops and tn
grasshoppers are in thousands"
Judge Thatcher writes from Hor
, nellsviIle, New York, to the Lawrence
Republican, as follows, July 30th:
"'The cool weather renders a warn
; stove in tho morning not unpleasant
and the cheated term" has done it
worst here. But rain is still earnestl,
looked for, as the crop is dependen
e upon it. Oats, potatoes, corn ant
garden vegetables have suffered full
One-half of their usual product.
just now wool is very low in thi
country. For the choicest quality onl
thirty-eight cents is offered and no
many buyers at that.
!, A blight, perhaps the dry weather
has affected apples so that they ar
: falling off before maturity.
Yesterday we had green corn on tn
/, table for the first time, and new pota
toes have been large enough to use 70
about week. Quite contrast wit
Kansas, and then too, by the middle O
: September or first of October, it vii
be so cold as to cut off the gardens 70
a the season."