Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1910 — Indianapolis Expert Says Fruit Crop Not Damaged by Frost. [ARTICLE]

Indianapolis Expert Says Fruit Crop Not Damaged by Frost.

'Hiram P. Dean, an authority on fruit culture, says of the crop’s chances: “Having had Bqveral failures of a general fruit crop there is an unusual interest in the outlook for the coming summer. “The present cold snap and snowstorm have not damaged the fruit in the least in this section and now promise to pass by without injury, as there are no very low temperatures in the Northwest. It will require a drop of 28 to 26 degrees before any peach buds are killed, while in their present condition, and even then there would be enough buds left to make a fair crop, as the peach ‘sets’ enough buds to make a fair crop if four-flfths are killed. “While there is more fear of kills of the fruit crop in spring, yet the actual loss in spring is about one to ten in the winter. Having had an experience of over forty years in peach growing, our records show only two total spring kills In that time. There have been several partial kills of the buds, but they were often beneficial as it saved us the expense of thinning, which had to be done when there was a full crop “The present outlook is very favorable as there is a very full bloom on all kinds of fruit and there has been plenty of sunshine up to the present storm to insure good pollenization.”