Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-09-19

ust %: In the Midland counties and
further north the harvest is very back
ward, and some anxiety is being felt as
to the result. Although we are nearly
at the close of August, the crops, even
with propitlous weather, will take some
time to ripen. and the rainfall having
been heavy of late. fears are entertain
ed that the wheat harvest will prove to
be disappointment Other reports bv
mallto August 2S: Dumfries.-Thc grain
crops in this district have been very
much tlattened 10y the continuous and
excessive rainfall, and the harvest will
be unusually late. Oats have been so
much laid that the stalks Will scarcely
be able to rise again. Barley and wheat
are interior i'll quality. Great damage
has also been done to the hay crop, and
hundreds of ricks were standing in wa
ter during the recent floods. Turnips
are still IA fair crop, but potatoes, il is
feared, are showing symptomsof disease.
observation-disclosures Saturday the
district of South Statfordshire has been
VISITED with continuous heavy rains, and
III the agricultural portions of the dis
trlct the crops have been beaten down
and very seriously damaged. Stone
haven (Scotland).-We have had such
heavy rain and strong wind that the
damage To the crops in this neighbor-
hood Is very great. Every kind of crop
appears driven into the earth, and it
will take a long time of dry weather
and sunshine to redeem the damage al
ready done. The hay crop is really
looking miserable; the cocks are dark
IN color, and creeping. rs it were, into
the earth, being both damaged above
and below. The grain crops are laid as
by a roller; the potatoes are also very
much broken down, and the ground us
wet as may be, which will no doubt be
the means of feeding the disease which
has set IN, in some instances, in this
neighborhood. Saturday proved u very
%unfavorablo day for reapins, being very
wet, and no carting could be proceeded
with.
In a memorandum recently issued by
DR.. Piazzi Smith, the Astronomer ROYAL
for Scotland, he says: If we attempt to
approximate to the rainfall for the whole
month of August, 1877, 10y supplying
the remaining days by means of the
same number of days from the end of
last July, the August rainfall for this OBJ
servatory roof will have been $500
inches, which is equivalent to 1915 inch
es in the average for the principal towns
of Scotland, us printed by the Registrar
General for births, deaths, &C., in his
various reports, based on the observa-
tons of the Scottish Meteorological So
clcty during the last twenty-one years.
Has that officer, then, through all these
years, w been known to publish such
u rainfall for the average of the princi-
pal towns of Scotland rs S.945 inches
III any month Of August? And the an
swer Is, Never. Once in 1861 the rain
tall was 7.13 inches, but the next highest
return was only 5.33 and 5.O3 inches, in
1868 and 1874 respectively; while his
average August Of all the years is only
3.42 inches. The present year. there
fore, transcends in the gravity Of the
situation everything which the farming
interests OF the country have had to
deal with since the commencement of
the publication of the Rcgistrar-Gen-
erals returns for Scotland"