New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-10
RESULTS OF DRY WEATHER.

LOSSES AND MISERY FROM LACK OF RAIN
HOW THE COUNTRY LOOKS IN NEw-JERsEY AND
Neutrality-suspicious., GRAIN, AND VEGETABLES
DAMAGED-A GREAT NEED OF wATER-EFFECTS
IN CENTRAL PARK
Although local showers have fallen within few
days in portions of New-Jersey and up the Hudson,
and its Immediate vicinity still suffer the
many miseries resulting from drouth. In the city
the lack of rain shows itself in the dusty streets and
the dust and smoke that fill the atmosphere every
where. The faded yellow and brown leaves also
keep pattering down from he trees premonitions of
melancholy days month or two before their time.
lhey whirl down in those streets that fortunate
enough to have trees fall gently on the over-rpe
specimens of humanity that lounge on the seats in
the city parks. Increased prices for country pro-
duce are other disagreeable results and if there
not copous rains soon the price of vegetables must
go still higher. well prices of milk and fruit.
Outside of the city the parched condition of the
country could be best told by the farmers but they
feel it so badly that they in many 10th to
talk about it. To well-to-do city folk the drouth
furnishes topic of conversations and gives them an
opportunity to air their knowledge of agriculture
but to the farmer it is a matter that affects his
means OF living The farmers have one relief in
commonhowever, when theyare all under the same af
hcton, which to put up the prices of their produce.
The familiar reports of dredup rivers, cisterns and
wells parched feel ruined crops leahess trees, and
and the distress Is aggravated every day
That's where the Almighty still has a hold on
SHOULD not tnr rain r forty daEs
together, hut said nothing about drOuth for eighty
DAYS."
Most persons however are not given to such COM
planning, and while they wonder how much longer
the drouth will continue, keep patiently hoping and
praying for RAIN
SCENES IN NEw-JERsEY
In most parts of New-Jersey less than one-fourth
of an inch of rain fell in August. and very little has
fallen for two months. The farms in Upper Free
hold are suffering very much Corn will not be over
hall crop hut other grains which ripen early have
y,pidhea nf VEL hre has been raging in the woods
timber, and seriously damaging the cranherry hoo
There are forest fires al so in Middesex Tonptv In
Somervlile everything is dry as finder and owing
to the scarcity of water extra nrccantinns Iau e
t9 De takeD to prevent fire from breaking ont.
The dust is intolerabs. Farmers have desnaireI 81
their corn and are cutting it M for fodder RncI
wheat is aso failure. and the scarcity Of water ia
s sneD IF ns S,eio OF milk In South Branch the
to the rver for It, In South Orange the more shall
gS S ont although the deep
future danger is agitated. sprinkle Of rain a
week az" barely oar snficed to Law the dust The
in over two months Apples are falling before rnep
ing ing ann grapes are short crop. Trees in the
the gardens and fields are all dried I'M, Cam dan
has the unusual blessing of good waite, S snmn1
m. .,I uou Sy around is in a wretched state
lhrougho9t Sout Jersey the toma crop has rpened
prematurely, and farmers have Therefore gathared
grea, qaanlies OF this fruit and filled the market
TO oveInowme The cultivstors Of the soil here are
moved to frequent prayers or curses
Al hlrkWo9d the water in the lake is SO low that
the nun grinds slowly and ONLY for n few hours in
the day Along the line of the Camden and Atlantic
Railroad the leaves the trees are turning yellow
The country around New Brunswick and El}zahe,h
is very dry and dusty aud the farmers can be- told
from other people by their sober faces For FORTY
hve DAYS no rain has fallen and late fruits and
phAu and,
shrlveIied on the trees and grass has been long
since dead. The yield Of corn will be light and Of
fodder The dust in the streets and roads
is almost unbearabIe The small ponds
at Weston's, which supplies the city If New Bruins
wick, lower than ever be Farmers around Nor
The price Of mix hss SUr % SfT S s8 for
cents iii Hackensack. In cases persons are law
ing pipes to convey water to their dwellings.
LOSSES BY FIRES.
Throughout New-Jersey generally brown meadows
and curled and wthered foliage everywhere meet
the eye. Fires are raging in many places Between
the Hackensack and Passao rivers the fires burned
for days, and the country Overhung with dense
masses of smoke. In Bergen County the Troy
have been burned with the hay stacks on them The
East Newark Fire Department was once called upon
TO hght the naines, IN Sonh JERSEY people have
meadows, and cranberry boys. Over 30 900 acres of
wild woodland in Burlington County have been
burning tor several DAYS, set on fire by spark from
a locomotive engine. Forest fires have also been
burning more or less near Clayton Cumberland
Trenton have been scorched. The yield of corn IN
some fields is only fonr five bushels per acre
Late potatoes have hardly grown at all. Turnps
find no moisture, and celery iss t very small few
good fields OF corn are to be along the RarItan
River. Buckwhea is an entire failure Apples have
not been so much damaged AZ peaches and grapes
The Morris Whites in their native Morris County
are seriously damaged, and peaches III Dover are
scareer than IN many years The yield in Shiloh
Roadstown, and other parts of Cumberland County
will be fair, though mncL of the fruit has burst.
The State Agricultural Fair will soon be held On the
line of the Pennsylvania Railway, between Newark
and Elizabeth. but the dronth will probably cause
a poor showing of vegetables and fruits. The lack
of water for the mills at Paterson still continues
and what is supplied to the city is of such
Hudson County people have been obliged to cart
water from toboken and Jersey City, and in some
generally so disastrous in Northern AZ in Southern
New-Jcrsey, local showers about a week ago having
given little relief.
OTHER PLACES AROUND NETWORK.
The many fine privat grounds on Staten Island
present ptiabe sight with their scorched lawns
and brown-leaved trees. The late crops on the
island are all seriously damaged, and water IL be-
coming precious where the wells and cistcrns are
failing.
The Long Island farmers can be told by their
long faces. Celery, turnips, beets late cabbage.
corn and squashes, are barely able to keep alive with
out growing. A few dark green comfields can be
seen on low land but on the higher aud lighter
soils the fields look yellow, the leaves are dying
The scarcity of water is still increasing and MANY
cisterns and not few wells, are dry all over the
Island In the eastern part Of the island heavy
rain is needed
shower a week ago Thursday freshened ND
parts al Westchester County, but that neghborhoOd
wears a iaded look, and more rain is needed for
crops ana 'rees and to fill streams, cisterns, and