Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — WHEAT AND FRUIT. Sticking Close to Home. [ARTICLE]

WHEAT AND FRUIT.

Sticking Close to Home.

Reports by Special Correspondents from Twelve States. Reports have been received by the Farmers’ Review from its special correspondents in twelve States, as to the injury done to wheat and fruit by the recenf severe cold weather. The damage to wheat is small in the aggregate, but very bad in some localities where the plant had made rapid growth. The disaster to fruit was widespread, the States where the trees were m st forward suffering most. In the northern sections of a number of’ the States the larger fruits were saved, for the reason that they had been held back in development. WHEAT. In Dlinois the crop as a whole has certainly Buffered considerable from the freeze, though how much damage has been done cannot be told till a period of warm weather develops the uninjured wheat. In some counties it froze to the ground, but may be all right. In Indiana tho damage appears to be less than in Illinois, and most of the correspondents report the outlook good. Some fields where the plant had jointed are reported killed. In a few counties it is estimated that the crop will be cut down a third. These sections are not numerous, and the general condition for the State is fair. in Ohio the general condition remains from fair to good. The late freeze did damage mainly on clay lands, but in many sections the snow covered and protected the plant. The fields that look bad from the effects of the cold will doubtless recover, being uninjured at the roots. Michigan wheat shows little effect of the freeze. The crop was hurt some by the cold, but in most counties the plant was either covered by snow or so backward in development that it escaped. In Kentucky the damage to wheat is considerable. The plant was growing rapidly under the effects ot the warm weather in March, and when the cold came it caught the plant at a stage of growth where it is easily injured. The crop has been cut short, but how much no one can tell at this time. In Missouri the wheat is reported injured in some sections, and in others only retarded. Its general condition is fair, and it does not now appear that the aggregate damage was great. In Kansas some of the wheat that had been closely pastured is reported so badly killed that it will have to be plowed up. Some wheat on old ground is reported hurt by drouth and wind. In most of the counties, however, the outlook is favorable. In Nebraska wheat has been damaged some by high winds and late freezing, and the general condition is poor. According to reports not more than halt a crop will be harvested in some of the counties. In lowa little damage Is reported, and in the counties that raise winter wheat the outlook is generally good. In Wisconsin most of the counties escaped any great disaster, but In some the crop appears to be seriously retarded. It is hoped that the development was not so great at the time of the freeze as to make the Injury permanent. FRUIT. Nearly all kinds of tree fruit In Illinois have been killed. The late blossoming apples have escaped and some of the small fruits. The same is true of Indiana and Ohio in a smaller degree. In Michigan most of the fruit seems to have escaped with the exception ot peaches and strawberries. In Kentucky the fruit is quite generally killed. In Missouri great injury has resulted. In Kansas, peaches and plums are killed, but in many counties apples appear to have escaped. In Nebraska the damage has been considerable. In lowa and Wisconsin the injury to fruit is not believed to be great.

A local paper of Moravia, Cayuga County, N. Y., says that George Dumore, a prosperous farmer, who has been a resident of that town nearly eighty years, has never been outside the township. The well-known villages of Cortland, Homer, Genoa and Aurora are within ten miles of Moravia, but Father Dumore has never been in either one of them. He has a brother and a sister who have lived eight miles from his farm for over sixty years and he has not seen either of them for for-ty-five years. A neighbor of Dumore's, Nathan Tuthill, 74 years old, has lived at Moravia fifty years and was never inside the village tavern or postoffiee. He has lived half a century in one house and never slept or ate a meal in any other house. He never tasted liquor, beer or tobacco and never wrote a letter or signed a note or other obligation. Another neighbor of Dumore’s is Seth R. Webb, aged 83 years, who has been town clerk for fifty-four consecutive years.—New York Tribuna.