Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1918 — SLAVE FROM FROST BY SMUDGED [ARTICLE]

SLAVE FROM FROST BY SMUDGED

N. Stanton of Gifford advises people to use the smudge method should there be grave danger again of frost injuring their crops. He says that he has seen hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of crops saved by this method, and that a little labor! judiciously expended at critical times will thoroughly protect fields , from frost. Mr. Stanton says that smudge fires should be built on the windward side of the field, of cout%sthat the smoke will be carried nd same, and that this affords ant. - solute protection from danftiA frosts. These smudge fires can made by throwing damp hay ft grass over the fires that have b» started, or, in the case of mu ground, live coals can be -plac in tin or iron buckets and some o the muck dirt thrown theron. . is not necessary to keep up tires all night long, hut even if were it would be labor well spen Mr. Stanton will be glad to gh any further information desired to those interested.