Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1910 — HARD LINES IN NORTH DAKOTA. [ARTICLE]

HARD LINES IN NORTH DAKOTA.

Jasper County Emigrants Run Up Against a Dry Season. According to reports received from Jasper county people who moved to the vicinity of Larimore, No. Dak., last spring, the country thereabouts is worse hurt by the drouth than almost any other section of the state, and crops will be almost a total failure there this year. The Brook Reporter says of conditions there: comes that the section of country surrounding Larimore, N. D., where nearly all of our people that went west last spring are located, is burned up from heat and hot iwnds, and that not over a fourth of a crop will be raised. It seems that tihe country around Larimore has been the worst for heat and lack of moisture of any in the west. “In a letter to friends hefe, Mrs. Brooks Brodrick, now ot near Larimore, N. D., but formerly of this place, says that they are dried up in that section. Not a binder will be taken from the sheds this year, all that the stock will have to subsist on is some last year’s straw, for the ones that are fortunate enough to possess .it. Hay, wheat, flax and other crops are totally gone, not enough left for feed or seed. The hottest kind of weather for four weeks with no rain but a continued blowing of the hot winds. This is tfie same kind of a story heard from half a dozen of the former residents of this section.”

The Reporter also says that Charles Antcliff, who moved from that place to Larimore, last spring, has been meeting with bad luck since his advent into that state. Last week his barn with entire contents was destroyed by fire, including., his horses and farming implements. Together with an almost total loss of a crop through drouth this season, he is up against it good and hard.