Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1914 — Fruit Prospect Good in Michigan. [ARTICLE]

Fruit Prospect Good in Michigan.

Jerome G. Andrus writes from 1 Shelby, Mich., under dqte of May 12, in renewing his subscription, and says: “We are having cold, wet weather now. There is going to be a bumper fruit crop if nothing happens; the trees are budded full and the apple trees are just getting pink. Potatoes \ have dropped to 50c per bushel. The canning factory has bought 10,000 bushels out of cold storage and will start up this week. The factory has advertised for one hundred women to help with the canning, so you see that women are quite useful up here in picking fruit and in the canning industry.”