Year: 1863

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of crops in this State as we could get
from our country exchanges, but, as
every one may not draw the same infer
ence from the same facts, we shall to-
day let our exchanges speak for them
selves, promising only that less than
fourth say anything on that subject, and
that what has heretofore been said by the
silent three-fourths is in the main less
favorable than we could have wished
The difficulty of arriving at any compre-
hensive conclusion that shall not be
false as TO many districts of country may
be judged from the first two papers we
quote. The Noble County Standard
says "the potatoe and cat crops of that
county have been materially injured by
the drouth, that oats have suffered from
the ravages of an insect. and that flax,
of which considerable quantity has been
sown; will be light while the Noble
County Herald says 'the weather for the
past few weeks has been splendid and
corn never looked better. Potatoes are
good, and this year promises to he gem
orally most fruitful one" Allowing
equal information and accuracy to both
pttpCIos VIC ave AOl II UuL " COi-
clude that the prospect in Noble county
is decidedly "split up" The Marshall
county Republican says that cora and
potatoes here are growing finely under
recent light showers" This is the re-
port from the north From the east we
have the report of the Grant County
Union, that "the drouth there is unbro-
ken and the corn is seriously damaged"
of the Newcastle (Henry County, Coatr-
ieT, that sit is desperately dry there
that there has been no heavy rain there
for over nine weeks, and that corn will
be almost total failure, come what
WILL" and of the Connervile Times, that
''there has been no rain of any conse-
quence in that section for the last six or
eight weeks. Corn, potatoes and other
fall crops will be almost total failures.
unless they are blessed with bountiful
rains within the next few days. Indeed
many fields of corn are even now so much
injured that rain would not save them
Such drouth has not been known there
for ten years.


OF cora and late nntatoeS there will
not, with the most favorable season dur
ing this and the succeeding month, be
more than half or two-thirds of crop.
From the west and Wabash region, we
learn from the Jasper County Gazette,
which there has been very little, will not
make it good crop. Potatoes will not
yield an average crop Farmers are
cutting everything inzthe shape of grass
to feed the extraordinary amount OF
stock they expect to have on hand next
winter" from the Fountain County
Ledqer that s. the drouth threatens the
destruction of the corn there; that in
some localities there has been no rain
since planting, and in others very little;
the crops will be failure" from the
Hendricks County Ledger that "a great
deal of the corn in that vicinity is pas
redemption; that in the uplands it viii
not yield anything at all, while that OIL
bottom land looks better; not more
than half crop will be made in The
county" From the south we have moth
ing to-day, but the general tenor of for
mer statements was good. The Over
! County Journal says that not over hal


crop of anything will be raised there
| In Fountain and Switzerland countle


there were heavy storms and severe fall


of hail during the past week, which di'


some damage In Fountain, about tn


town of Attica, the storm assumed th


strength of a tornado, and blew dow


trees. These reports hardly sustain tn


sanguine expectation of the New Alban


Ledger that the crops will be little if an


below the average We incline strongl


to the opinion that the drouth damage


corn and potatoes good deal i'll mos


sections Of the State before it wa


broken, and that in many sections it


not yet broken so as to restore what


lost, or prevent still greater damag,


Corn and potatoes will be short thi


year, let the weather from now on b


what it may-LndianapotiS Jour, Ill