Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1910 — Frost Hurt Wheat 10 Per Cent Is Farmer’s Estimate. [ARTICLE]

Frost Hurt Wheat 10 Per Cent Is Farmer’s Estimate.

Steve Comer was in Gillam township Friday and was surprised to find that the freeze of Tuesday night had resulted so injuriously to wheat. In the low lands the wheat seems to have been entrely killed, he reports, and was so dry by Friday that it would have burned off, if set fire with a match. The drouth had previously injured it and Mr. Comer thinks a per cent damage was done to the wheat. That oats, also, are damaged, is the opinion of most farmers with whom the writer has conversed. 'The drouth has also Injured them. Plums seem to have suffered most among the fruits, although some who have examined fruit carefully report that pears, peaches, apples and cherries have suffered. Examination in town made by the writer would indicate that very little damage had resulted to cherries.