Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1910 — AN APRIL SNOW. [ARTICLE]

AN APRIL SNOW.

Lower Temperature Comes But No Freezing As Yet. The fine April weather took a turn for the worse Saturday, when a slow but much needed rain came and the mercury dropped several degrees that night and Sunday. Monday flakes of snow Tell practically all day, but melted almost as soon as it fell until towards night, when the ground was covered white. This disappeared for the most part Monday night and a change ot the wind yesterday, it was thought, would save us from a killing frost. In some parts of the state the ground was covered with four to five inches of snow. The previous frosts we have had have done some damage to wheat on the muck land and also to oats. Charlie Pullins says that it killed about two acres of wheat for him and curled -the leaves of his alfalfa, which was getting almost large enough to cut the first time.