Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1917 — NOT MANY APPLES IN MICHIGAN [ARTICLE]

NOT MANY APPLES IN MICHIGAN

Potatoes Are Plentiful Where Frost Did Not Catch Them. Jerome Andrus, formerly of Jasper county but who for several years has been engaged in fruit farming near Shelby, Michigan, and from whom we usually order a couple of barrels of apples every fall, in reply to our order this fall says: '“Sorry to say that we have but a few apples and they are poor and scabby; no apples, up here to speak of. Tried to find you some but could not. Potatoes are good where the frost did not get them too quick We did not get any of that first frost, through here, but “south and east of us they got it hard. We feel very lucky through here. It. has been raining almost every day, which has made it slow work filling silos. Some have tried to pull beans but they are having a hard time of it. Some are digging potatoes arid cutting beans until we have good weather, and the work Is all coming in a heap.’’