Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 16, Number 23, DeMotte, Jasper County, 19 April 1946 — FRUIT APPEARS TO HAVE WITHSTOOD COLD [ARTICLE]

FRUIT APPEARS TO HAVE WITHSTOOD COLD

Despite freezing temperatures that prevailed last Thursday night and early Friday morning, fruit crops of this vicinity were apparently not seriously damaged. according to Prof. (’,. A. Burkholder of the Purdue university horticulture department. A low of 28 degrees was reported at the Purdue horticultural farm, hut inspection Friday forenoon revealed that the hints on fruit trees were not hurt. Il was reported that in this teri itorv apples have not progressed sufficiently yet to he damaged and that any slight losses probably would be in peaches, plums and cherries.