Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1916 — Another Big Rain Yesterday Morning [ARTICLE]

Another Big Rain Yesterday Morning

After a few days of pleasant weather during which the higher ground had .dried out enough to enable tbO-farmers to work it Wednesday and Thursday, we got another heavy rain about 8 o’clock yesterday morning that was apparently quite general, and farm work was again put to standstill. This has probably been the wettest Jiine in the history of the weather department, and certainly is the worst ever experienced here by the oldest settlers. Thousands of acres of ground in Jasper county—several thousand acres of which are within a radius of two or three miles of Rensselaer—will probably not be planted to anything at .all this season unless we get a change in the weather program p. d. q. One farmer residing within three miles of Rensselaer informs u? ibat he has one field that he has disked over anl got ready to plant seven times, and each time rain came before he could get it planted. His experience is but lhat of scores of others. However, with anything like halfway decent weather for the balance of the season there is going to be considerable corn on the higher ground, where it was planted between showers, and in the north part of the county they have quite fair crops, some good wheat and oats and considerable good corn.