The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-07-20
FROM RIcIILAND TOWNSHIP.
Great Damage TO the Crops by the
Sturm-Grasshoppe and Potato
Bugs-Actiln OF Wool Growers-
Il, ad Matters.

RIcHLAND TOWNSHIP, July Il.
Editors Register.
Again | take my pen, hoping to give
YOU few items of interest, As have not
seen our county represented in your pa
pers for few weeks back This morn
ING. at or about four o'clock, itcrriiic
storm of wind burst upon this community
sweeping almost everything before 1t, do
ing n vast amount of damage tothe crops,
more especially to the corn and oat crops,
which promised an abundant yield. You
can ride over the country where yeStcr-
day grew beautiful field ofcorn or oats
and to-day il is flat on the ground, the corn
being, in a great many places, twisted 80
that il is impossible for 1t to rise again.
1t is supposed by some OF our old farm
ers that we cannot gather over hall Il
crop. | SAW friend from Sand HilI.
Marshall county, to day, and he says
things are terribly torn about IN that Sec
ton. From his statement they are worse
damaged than we are; the wheat crop
being nearly all cut it escaped. But !!
is feared if the wet weather continues 1t
will rot in the shock. But we, as peo-
pie are too easily frightened. Frequent
iy we urc scared when there Is no dan
ger. The long looked for and unpleaS-
antly received grasshoppers, have come
at last in almost unlimited numbers and
it appears Just now, if we expect to get
our share of the hay, We hal better pro-
coed ut once to harvest 1t.
( The potatoe bugs are still on the war
path, but We think We have bunishcd
them sufficiently to procure an abundant
yield, and the prospect Is more than ordi-
nary for crop Of potatoes. But there
are always enough, VINO neglect their
potatoes and leave them TO the ravagcS
of the beetle, to assure us Of just COM
pcusaton for our labor.
The wool growers of this and adjoin-
ing counties have organized themselves
iuloa band for the purpose Of dealing
with the manufacturers, without the aid
OF the middle-men, claiming that it does
not pay and that The spectators will not
give them just compensation
for their feed and labor. The
buyers at present are slow to take hold,
and sellers are not disposed TO sell at the
prices offered, which range from 81! to
/ 80 cents per pound, and unless the market
advances, the majority OF the tine woods
/ will not be sold.
Having read the report of one of the
late meetings of the Board of C"mmis-
sioners, we see that they had made appro-
priatiouS to almost every road in the coun-
try but the Boggs Hill, and did not even
rive that road enough to make Il turn OF
about twenty yards. Now We think this
AN outrage, rs this is the main outlet to
almost one.half the produce OF the coun-
try and the Wheeling market. They
have left 1t in pretty condition. Stran-
GERS that ride along this road enquire
into this matter, and the conclusion they
come To- is, We have a heavy set
of supervisors, but facts are facts,
audit is my opinion that they may run
/ their career well this time, but they will
/ hurt their hereafter. They gave heavy
appropriations to the Haneytown road,
which is great benefit TO Marshall, but
Of little Importance to Ohio, there being
ONLY four or five farmers on this side OF
the line. There must be some influence,
and, if we knew how to get on the good
side of this august assembly, We would
! rndcavor to do So. but we have tried in
vain, ana can get no more and suppose
We must let portion Of the work we
have done 20 TO wreck, and it is fast
doing so; but lest We worry your patience
We will close. but not forever. W.