Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1887 — About the Drouth. [ARTICLE]

About the Drouth.

The drouth still continues with increasing severity. A few_ small local sliowers visited certain parts of jasper county last Thursday and Friday, and Rensselaer got quite a dash of rain du the former day, but not enough to be of much petmanent value. The oldest resident of the county never saw it so dry as at the present time. But Jasper county, on the whole, is much better off than most parts of the state, or the whole “corn belt.” for the matter of that. In Jasper many fields of corn will make a fair crop, rain or- no rain, and many other fields are not past saving if rain comes semi. In most parts of the state, however, and over the greater part of several adjorning states, corn is generally, used up completely. In Tippecanoe county, for instance, the Rev. David llandley, who saw a large part of it last v/eek, says that the corn fields there will notaverage two bushels to the acre. The Itev.-.Geo, Havens, who returned" last Saturday from extensive journeyings tlirnugh the central, southern parts of tlr: state, says that the drouth in all tho.s.e regions is vastly Averse than in Jasper c mnty.