Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1911 — RAIN SAVED CORN CROP [ARTICLE]

RAIN SAVED CORN CROP

Drenched Fourteen State Sunday—Prosperity Is Now Assured. Chicago, July 24.—Rain which drenched 14 states Sunday was worth millions of dollars to the country. Had it been a rain of real money the 'farmers could not haVe beeh more plekSecL More than a dozen States in the north and middle west, all of the corn belt, had rain and all needed it to save the corn. According t 6 agriculturists, the corn will develop with one final spurt. The result, they say, will be an era of prosperity far more concrete than anything to come frorii the reciprocity treaty. Beginning just east of the Rocky Mountains in Idaho and northern Montana, the rainstorm swept across the country, touching some states lightly and

treating others, where it was needed most, to a steady downpour that made the countryside hilarious. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, lowa, Kansas and Missouri all received the kind of a rain corn raisers have been wishing for during the past weeks. Indiana, Michigan and Ohio are due to get their rain today. It also rained Sunday in Florida, North Carolina and Alabama, but that was another storm entirely. This was strictly a “corn” rain. Except for little thunderstorms in widely scattered districts, this was the first rain since Jplv 19 and the storm then amounted to but little. It had been two weeks since the corn was treated to a real rain.