People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — JACK FROST’S WORK. [ARTICLE]

JACK FROST’S WORK.

Great Damage Done to Small Fruit*, Grain and Vegetable*. Chicago, May 29. Frost Sunday night and Monday morning did considerable damage to fruit and grain crops in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and other northwestern states. In the northern part of Illinois corn was in many places so badly nipped as to require a replanting. Vegetables and small fruits were also damaged and in some instances ruined. In Wisconsin it was so cold that ice formed. Huckleberries and other small fruits were damaged, and what promised to be a large crop may be a failure. Michigan reports damages to strawberries, melons, tomatoes, potatoes and other small fruits and vegetables. Peaches and the grains were not especially injured. In northern Indiana the wheat was hurt by the frost. Lansing, Mich., May 29.—Michigan's great fruit region was touched up by frost Sunday night and considerable damage done, more especially to small fruits, melons, tomatoes, potatoes and other vegetables. Peaches and the larger fruits and the grains were not especially harmed. At Benton Harbor injury was done all tender plants. The damage to melons, tomatoes and potatoes is the greatest, but the injury seems to have been occasional rather than general. Several of the large melon growers had many acres each of young plants cut to the ground and ruined, in the interior the frost did more damage than near the lake. Holland reports great damage to garden vegetables, potatoes and small fruits. Wheat and oats are not injured much, it is thought, and peaches and other fruit trees are thought to be safe. 1 here was a heavy frost in Muskegon and Oceana county Sunday night, which is reported killing all low truck. Strawberries are generally killed, as are tomatoes and beans. Three hundred acres of beans and tomatoes being raised for the Hart canning factory will have to be replanted. Peaches, pears and plums are all right. Frost wrecked the hopes of Kent county farmers for early tomatoes and other vegetables, killed off the early corn and did much damage to berries, grapes and late apples. The frost proved disastrous to fruits and vegetables at Decatur. Considerable damage was also done to cereal crops. Milwaukee, May 29. —Reports from all over Wisconsin show that considerable damage was done to fruit and vegetables in all parts of the state Monday night by a heavy frost. At Grantsburg what promised to be one of the heaviest crops of blueberry blossoms seen in this country is almost a total failure. Grain was slightly touched, while corn froze to the ground. A heavy white frost, the second in two weeks, fell at Marshfield last week. It will do considerable damage to the fruit and root crop. Antigo reports an unusually hard frost, greatly damaging strawberries, fruit trees and all kinds of vegetation. At Belgium there was a heavy frost, the second one within a week. Orchard trees were in full blossom, so that prospects for large quantities of all kinds of fruit were more promising than for a number of years past, but it is supposed that the blossoms have, as well as vegetables, suffered severely. Indianapolis, Ind.,-May 29.—Grain, vegetables and fruit were considerably hurt by the frost in the northern part of the state Sunday night. At LaPorte there was a killing frost and much damage was done to the corn, potatoes and small vegetables. At least 50 per cent, of the wheat was in blossom and it was feared that much of it has been badly injured. Frostat Munsie and in Delaware county did great damage to corn, wheat and garden truck of all kinds. Ashley reports a severe frost in DeKalb and Steuben counties. Cold winds have blown all day, doing - considerable damage.