The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-06-23

Crop PFospeeIs-WheAt RIPenIBg for the
HRFyeat-ROad Observation-Disclosures Ad'
vice 10 the Farmers on that subject
Personal Notes.
SHORT CREEK, W. Va, June %.
Correspondence Of the Int ~lligeHeer.
The continued showery weather we are
having, in connection With warm weather.
induces q rank growth oil vegetation.
Harvest is nearly upon up US and corn
has not received is second plowinR. II
seems to bss race between the weeds and
the corn; both are growing rapidly. The
older farmers tell US that weedy land iH
best for corn, ss 1t necessItates frequent
culture II we had no weeds in cur hoed
crops few farmers would give them %
much cultivation as 10 needed, Thus We
learn that even weeds are . "blessing In
disguise" and the old prediction respect.
ing the earth that thOTns and thistles 1t
shall produce for mans sake" is fully
verified,
The potato crop is variable. Some that
were planted during the hot, dry weather
in May failed to come up well. The bugs
are plenty ard troublesome, but are kept
down by picking of the old ones and
usiug Paris green. The recent rains have
destroy ed many OF them.
Wheat, which has been showing heads
since the middle Of May, ia now nearly
ripe. Several fields In the ~neighborhood
will be cut and in shock within the next
ten days.
The oats aud barley crop will be an aV.
srags one. They have both become 40
important crop, ss the yield Ia larger than
corn, and requires more labor TO produce
them.
The continued rainy spell hiss caused
the roads to be almost impossible, II not
entirely go, and this Is one Of the greatest
disWbScks TO this Short Greek region. The
farmers are beginning to see the great
advantage oil q good road, and the adVant.
age the farmers living on the pike have.
There Ia sufficient money spent every
yearto make permanent improvement
that is now scattered In improvements OF
o temporary character. Il is time to absn.
don the old system OF road making, such
as piling In the roadway with soft earth.
II IL q silly waste In any locality. Some
penny wise economist will say stone roads
are too expensive In construction to allow
them 10 be made In farming districts.
Not sol Dirt roads are too expensive
not In the making, but In the use. Soft
earth for road mending or road making Ia
bat a poor mAkeshilt. II Is never good
except In tho dry weather Of
summer or when frozen in the
winter. Interminable repairs are
constantly needed and II made with the
same material they are thrown away.
Why not abandon the senseless method,
particularly In this rich farming district,
where stone can be had for the hauling.
A good stone road will last twenty years,
and ten to one will be more servicsable
every day than the ordinary dirt road Of
It's best. What is wanted isa good be.
ginning. Start with stone and when they
are well beaten down they will constitute
the convincing Argument In favor OF con.
tinuing the work. When will the start DO
made?
The young people Of the neighborhood
organized a Sunday School at the Highland
FChool house Sunday afternoon last. This
is . movement in the right direction.
Mics Maggie Pogue and Ella Hopkins,
Of Wheeling, who have been visiting
friends In the neighbofhood for the past
two weeks, have returned homo.
Miss Kate McCulloCh, Of this ~neIghbor.
hood, has returned home. from . three
months visit among friends at Parkers'
burg, W. Va. ALwYN.