People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — BUDS NIPPED BY FROST. [ARTICLE]

BUDS NIPPED BY FROST.

Discouraging Reports from the Orchards of Kentucky and Indiana. Louisville, Ky., Feb. b.— Reports from the peach-growing section of Kentucky and southern Indiana indicate the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars on that crop by the fickleness of the winter weather. The early part of January was warm and springlike, causing the buds to swell so that last week’s severe cold snap resulted in almost total destruction of the prospective crop. The apple and other fruit crops are also damaged io a considerable extent,