Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1911 — FATE OF THE CROPS [ARTICLE]

FATE OF THE CROPS

In the Northwest Will Depend on Rain This Week. Minneapolis, Minn., June 25. That' the last week in t June, by the weather influences that may t>hen rule, will tlirn the productive scale of the Northwest upward or downward by many naillions.of bushels of’grain, was the opinion commonly expressed by Chamber of Commerce men, who, after a week of heat and excitement, sent many messages into t>he country last night to learn to what extent there had been rain relief. If Monday brings rain that is ge'neral, they said, and the week passes without the high temperature that last- w,6ek blighted the grain in many of the heaviest producting counties of Minnesota, lowa and the Dakotas, July will come in next Saturday witn a prospect for a satisfactory crop over a wide extent of territory, notwithstanding the fact that in portions of the southern counties

of Minnesota, Northern lowa, the southern tier of North Dakota counties and over the greater portion of the ricnest part of South Dakota losses of from 40 to 50 per cent, that even copious rains could not now repair, have been reported. The forthcoming week will decide the fate of the 1911 crop. The existing situation dates back to the moisture deficiency of the year 1910, which left the subsoil dry.