Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1917 — Indiana Crop Summary. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Crop Summary.

The past month has not been unfavorable to growing crops, although there has not been many warm days or much sunshine. Many factors enter into making a -low wheat condition figure at this time. To begin with, the crop was seeded exceptionally late and in many instances poor seed was used. The winter has been very severe. Little snow covering and several blizzards during the latter part, with exceptionally high wind®, doing great damage on sand nidges, -black soil, and high clay knobs, where the earth was literally blown from around the roots of the plant. Fields that were well sheltered and those sown early are in fairly good condition. With favorable weather conditions about the usual crop will be developed. • The rye crop is not in as -good .condition as usual and much of it will be plowed under as fertilizer. The same conditions that injured the wheat has affected the rye. The 'high percentage of mortality among live stock is due to the severe winter and insufficient feed. There heeons to be about as many brood sows as last year, although the high price and scarcity of feed has caused many of them to be sold, r