Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1879 — Effects of the Frost. [ARTICLE]

Effects of the Frost.

As an evidence of the -terrible severity of the cold in Central Illinois, the game-dealers of Bloomington relate that farmers are offering quail at 25 cents per dozen, picked up by the hundred along the fences and hedges frozen to death. They are found in bunches of ten to twenty, frozen solid. Nearly all the rabbits brought to town this week are minus a part x>r all of their ears, which have been destroyed by the frost of the past two weeks. In all parts of

McLean and adjoining counties fanners report heavy losses of hogs by “ overlying ” and smothering, resulting from the hqgs gathering together to keep warm.-- Kloomvrigton (III.) paper.