Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1919 — INDIANA APPLE CROP PRACTICALLY FAILURE. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA APPLE CROP PRACTICALLY FAILURE.

Southern Indiana’s apple crop is almost a complete failure, except in a few favored orchards, according to Professor James Troop, entomologist at Purdue university, who has returned from an investigation of ■fruit prospects through the state. Professor Troop said the more favored spots would not have more than half a crop. He visited one orchard of 250 acres, which early in the season promised a yield of between 40,000 and 50,000 (bushels of apples, but which now indicated not more than 100 bushels of good fruit. Late freezing weather is responsible for the failure of the crop.