Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1917 — A State Expert Says That Peaches Will Be Scarce. [ARTICLE]

A State Expert Says That Peaches Will Be Scarce.

* There will be few peaches grown ip the central and northern portions of Indiana this year, according bo reports made by J. B. Demaree and B. W. Erbaugh of the state embamolooffice. They recently completed an investigation of the fruit fit the state and say the extreme odd weather killed the buds. -■■■-f . The same conditions do not exist In the northern and southern parte of the state. Although the temperature has been as low in the northern part of Indiana, the cold waves were not lntersperced with so many warm days. In low ground, in dll parte of .the state, It is said, the prospects for a peach crop are poor. - The sam» oondlfeteueHßppljMi© uterrtes, especially the sweet varieties. No report hats' yet been mode on plume, but it is said the prospects for a bumper apple crop acre good.