Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1911 — T. J. Sayler Compares Indiana And Colorado Hail Storms. [ARTICLE]

T. J. Sayler Compares Indiana And Colorado Hail Storms.

Lamar, Colo., July 17, 1911. Editor Republican: In yefar publication of July 14th I read with regret of the destructive hail storm that swept over that vicinity. It impressed me more forcibly because it struck the old home farm where I was born and lived for thirty years. Since I have lived in Colorado I have Witnessed one such hall storm, but it wss much more destructive than the storm in your vicinity. It was in 1904. We bad hall that measured eleven inches around (or you might say chunks of lee). Our alfalfa, same as your oats, was Just ready to harvest and a splendid crop it would have been. It was beaten to shreds and lay flat on the ground. Sugar beets were stripped of their leaves and the country where the hall struck looked the next day like it wasn't worth fifteen cents. During the hail storm here window glass was broken all over town. One woman, in trying to nail a blanket up to the window to keep out the rain, was struck with a hall stone and two ribs broken. We had bad a heavy rain with the hall that thoroughly moistened the ground, and now is where we in Colorado have it over our old neighbors in Indiana. While the sugar beet plant was stripped of alt its leaves, the plants that were uninjured in a few days put on ney leaves and the crop was a fair one. Now our alfalfa is our staple crop, like corn is there. If the hall ruined your corn you will have to wait until next year to raise another crop. With alfalfa it is different The farmers started mowing machines at once after the hail storm, clipping the hay that Was not downed by the hail, and then thoroughly irrigated the land, and in five weeks we had a bumper crop of hay, going in moat cases not less than ton per acre, and we had another good crop after that Our crops are good here this year. The first crop of alfalfa is harvested and we are now commencing on the second crop. The best farms will produce not less than 4H tons of hay per acre. Hay buyers now are offering >IO.OO per ton for alfalfa hay. Hoping the corn in old Jasper will come out like our beets and alfalfa did, I remain. With best-regards to ail,

T. J. SAYLER.

The Laporte county council met tn special session at Laporte Monday. It was generally rumored that an attempt would be made to get through an appropriation to purchase voting machines fdr the county, but if this was the purpose the backers of the scheme got cold feet, for the subject was not mentioned. Want to rent your property? Use our classified column.