Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1918 — MARCH WEATHER IS PERFECT [ARTICLE]

MARCH WEATHER IS PERFECT

Old Citizens Seldom Rem ember a Better Balanced Month. Few people remember ever having seen better weather in March than we have had so far this year. There has been practically no snow, and not enough rain to seriously interfere with farm work. The roads —especially the stone and gravel—have been in excellent condition all the time and thereby enabled the farmers to haul lots of corn to market —and, by the way, probably four or five times as much corn was marketed in Rensselaer this month than ever before, because of the fact, for one thing, that the elevators here could handle it right along while in several of the neighboring towns they could not secure cars and had not the equipment for handling this poor grade of corn—and it has brought the growers a great deal of money notwithstanding its poor quality. The good weather has also enabled most of the farmers to get their corn husked out in their fields and they are in better shape to begin their spring work than seemed possible a month ago. Most of the oats, however, must be disked in under disadvantages, as the corn stalks could not be fed down as usual owing to the corn not being husked out. The weather prophecy for today is “Generally fair and continued warm.” -