Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1917 — RAIN HAS DELAYED THRASHING [ARTICLE]

RAIN HAS DELAYED THRASHING

Unusually Heavy Crop Requires More Time to Thrash. We have been getting altogether too . much rain for thrashing in some sections of the county for the past ten days. Up in about Moody and north and east of there there was very little thrashing done last week because of rain, and, Monday night rain fell here all night long and most of yesterday forenoon. Apparently this rain was quite general and, even though it clears up and we have good weather from now on, it will be a couple of days at least before thrashing can be resumed, as the rainfall of Monday night alone was estimated at better than one inch. Over in about Brook they got a very heavy rain last week, almost a cloudburst, which put a stop to thrashing for several days. It is probable that but little more than half of the thrashing is done, and with the best of weather it would take nearly two weeks to finish up the work.