People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1895 — Cooking the Corn. [ARTICLE]

Cooking the Corn.

Marshalltown, lowa, May 29.—Special dispatches indicate a very serious crop condition in Western lowa, The mercury in some sections recorded 100 in the shade at 5 o’clock /yesterday afternoon, and a hot Wind cooked the corn so that replanting will be necessary, and also damaged oats. Unless the drought is broken soon the damage will be enormous. The hot wind continues.