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showers along their borders. This was evidently so in the south- 
ern portions of Ohio where showers were so distributed as to pro- 
duce good crops of Indian corn; especially in the vicinity of the 
Ohio and Muskingum rivers. In the hilly portions of the state, 
where the soil is argillaceous, and the ground not ploughed more 
than five or six inches deep, there was nearly an entire failure of 
this staple crop. 
The superior advantages of deep and thorough tillage was 
hever more strikingly seen than in the results of this year. 
potato crop was a failure ; as much from the excessive heat of the 
summer, as the drought; the tubers being in many instances partly 
cooked, becoming soft and spongy in texture. The result was 
the almost entire destruction of this important article of food, and 
raising the price to a higher figure than known since 1838, when 
the potato disease prevailed so extensively. The wheat crop was 
excellent over all the western states; having attained its growth 
before the severity of the drought commenced. In some districts 
the grain was entirely destroyed by insects; the wheat fly or mil- 
ler (‘Tinea granella), a species different from the Hessian fly, or 
touched by the sickle. ‘The grass crop was good, attaining its 
gtowth before the want of rain was felt; but the pasturage in the 
latter part of the summer was a failure. Sweet potatoes, now an 
iMportant crop in Southern Ohio, were less than usual in quantity, 
\t of a most excellent quality. T'he long continued heat being 
Congenial to their habit, and perfecting the saccharine portion of 
this delicious esculent, in an unusual degree. The fruit crop was 
rather a failure, small in amount, and inferior in quality. he 
heat changed winter apples into autumnal ones; causing them to 
decay at a much earlier period than heretofore. 
