Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1916 — Rain and Warmer Weather Badly Needed. [ARTICLE]

Rain and Warmer Weather Badly Needed.

The little rain that we got Thursday night and Saturday night helped a little, that of Saturday night, however, being barely enough to lay the dust, but we are needing some good soaking rains for grass, wheat and oats. The grass is too short yet for pasture, and" wheat, what little there is of it, but a small acreage having been put out last fall in this locality and is a very poor stand, as a rule, is doing no good at all to speak of. Very few oats are out of the ground because of the lack of rain and the generally cold weather we have had since they were sown. The . hay crop is bound to bo short, even should we get plenty of rain soon, farmers declare. The high winds considerable of the time have drawn what little moisture out that there was in the ground. We have had no good growing weather as yet this spring, and vegetation of all kinds is showing the need of it.