Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1917 — ABUNDANT RAINFALLS COME [ARTICLE]

ABUNDANT RAINFALLS COME

The drought was broken in this section of the state by lo£al showers Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Monday evening it started raining again about 8 o'clock and continued practically all night long and* it was still raining at intervals yesterday up to the hour of going to press. While we needed rain quite badly, we have now a sufficiency for the present and it has done a tremendous amount of good to wheat, oats and grass, but one extreme of weather frequently follows another, and it is hoped we will not now get too much of a good thing. Most of the corn is planted in this it was put in with the ground in splendid condition, A much larger acreage than usual has been planted and if the weather conditions are favorable thousands of acres more will yet be planted and Jasper county will produce the hugest corn crop in ito history-