Morning journal and courier., 1884-05-31
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 The Cold Wave Damage Done in Ali
 Sections of the State by the Frost.
 Reports come from all the surrounding towns of the damage done by the frost for the past two nights. In Norfolk snow fell to the depth of a quarter of an inch. Grapes are generally ruined and corn and potatoes are in many places leveled and will require replanting. The ground in Hamden was frozen to the depth of an inch on the hills as well as in the valleys. The greatest loss is to the owners of strawberry beds. The loss to many of them will exceed a thousand dollars Gilbert s. Benham will lose more than this. By the burning of a hundred dollars worth of wood about his beds Wednesday night he could have saved $1, 900 easily. The tomato vines were killed everywhere and they cannot be replaced.
 All the eastern towns suffered, and in Bran ford vines exposed to the northerly winds
 were blighted. All that were sheltered es- capped All garden stuff, potatoes, corn, etc., suffered heavily, and the crops are generally ruined.
 In Birmingham and along the Naugatuck Valley the frost was very heavy and strong Papers did not save the vi es. Cars this morning were covered with the frost. The damage to crops is very heavy, and the farm CTS are feeling very badly Potatoes will probably be high and scarce next year. Through West Haven, Allingtown and Mil ford potatoes are set back at least six weeks. The potato bugs were left untouched and as lively as possible.
 The effect of the frost in the western part of this city was very disastrous to gardens and graperies. The cold wind and frost that swept down from the northwest blighted
 nearly everything in its track. Grapsvines and the budding fruit thereon looked as though they had been burned with fire. The fruit on the pear trees looked withered and plants and flowers did not escape the general destruction that followed. Tomato plants just ready to blossom hung their heads as though in general disgust at the sudden cli- matic change. Potatoes and beans looked as though they wished they had never put their heads above mother earth and seemed desir- ous to return to the place from whence they came. On the north side of John Warmers barn, who lives at the corner of Orchard and Dickerman streets the water in 8 tub was frozen to the thickness of nearly a quarter of an inch.
 On $. R. Downer's place on the ridge road
 in the town of Hamden, one hundred and fifty tomato plants were destroyed by the frost. to say nothing of other valuable plants that were only the day before in the pros pect of full fruition in the no distant future
 Charles F. Futile, the Broadway grocer, took drive toward North Haven yesterday morning, passing around the foot of East Rock Park and stated that the vegetable gar dens, fruit trees and geapevines looked as though they had been burned over. He noticed in some instances where one tree had been severely bitten by the frost that another close to it had apparently escaped. Judge Sheldon, who was in Northford, yesterday, noticed the effect of ihe frost on trees and shrubbery. He particularly mo- ticed the damage to trees in the low lands, while on the more elevated portions of the ground the damaging effects were not so ap- parent.
 Similar reports come from alli sections in
 this county and the damage in dollars and
 cents can hardly be estimated.
 Of course many of the injured vegetables can be replantsd ard they will no doubt ma
 ture before the fall frosts overtake them, but they will be late in the season. So far as
 fruits are concerned but little can be expect ed in this section unless it be apples which are perhaps so far advanced as not to be ser iously injured.
 In Rockville, Thursday nights frost has
 killed grapevines, strawberries, vegetables,
 etc. Plants which were covered with sheets
 were frozen and have turned black. Tobacco
 beds must have been spoiled and the loss to tobacco raisers will be serious.
 In Hartford considerable damage was done to early garden produce, plants and tobacco. The majority of the tobacco growers have not yet planted, but those who have done so have lost parts of their crops. I1 the vicinity of East Hartford the farmers report that their early vegetables and plants have been laid low by the frost. Hale Brothers, the berrymen of Glastonbury, suffered loss of their berry plants, especially strawberries, and many others in that vicinity say that they have lost their plants and early tobacco Squash, melon and grapevines have been the principal victims of this sudden change, and if the tobacco had been up little more there would have been 8 severe loss. In many cases growers saved their tobacco by cover ing it. One grower said that about this time of year ten years ago 8 severe frost was expe- I rienced which cut down everything. The frost was severe at nearly all points l between Putnam and New London The ground was frozen fully an inch deep at l Stafford. Ice formed 5-s of an inch in thick | ness Much damage has been done. Trees have suffered severely in maGy places. Andrew Coe, of Coe Brothers, Meriden, ,esti- | mates the loss in his grape crop at over