Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1908 — CORN IN SERIOUS CONDITION. [ARTICLE]

CORN IN SERIOUS CONDITION.

Unless a good rain comes within a day or two the corn crop of thiß vicinity will be ruined. Already considerable damage has been done in the sandy regions and on the high ground. The ground does not contain a drop of moisture for several feet below the surface, and the hot sun is rapidly burning up the dried- 1 up stalks. Much 0/ the com in the sand belt has already been so badly damaged that it will yield no crop. In the clay ground the conditions, although also critical, are not so bad, and a good rain would revive it so that the crop would still be fair. Several weeks ago the prospects for a banner corn crop were said to be the best in years.—Laporte Argus.