Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1911 — TOO WET FOR FARMING. [ARTICLE]

TOO WET FOR FARMING.

A very heavy rain Wednesday night, followed by rain Thursday afternoon and a still heavier one Thursday night, has put a stop to oats sowing and will greatly jeopardize those already in the ground, so very wet is it. The river was the highest here yesterday noon it has been for a year or more, and in places was out of the ditch banks a little. There are thousands of acres of oats yet to be sown on the dower ground in this county, and it will take at least a week for this ground to dry out sufficiently for the farmers to get to work on it. Last year all the oats were sown in March.