Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1917 — JACK FROST PAYS US A VISIT [ARTICLE]

JACK FROST PAYS US A VISIT

Com in Low-Lying Muck Nipped by a Freeze Friday Night. A belated visit by Jack Frost nipped many acres of corn iri Jasper and neighboring counties Friday night. It was cold enough to form ice in small pools and vessels of water, but apparently the damage was confined wholly to corn on low-lying muck ground. Fortunately there doesn’t seem to be a very large acreage of muck ground planted in corn this season and some of this was planted quite late and is barely, through the ground. It “is probable that the total amount damaged is but a few hundred acres and some of this will sprout up again, perhaps all of it. No damage was done to garden truck, but some farmers fear that the rye, which was in blossom, is damaged considerably in • some places. The 15th of June is perhaps one of the latest dates ever known in Jasper county for it to get cold enough to freeze ice on pools of water. But we are mighty lucky that it was no worse than it was. This freeze has since been followed by rising temperature and pleasant weather.