Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1891 — JACK FROST’S DEADLY WORK. [ARTICLE]

JACK FROST’S DEADLY WORK.

Both Fruits and Vegetables in Eastern and Central States Badly Damaged. Reports from New York State and fha New England States indicate that fruits as well as tender vegetables were nipped by the recent frost. Snow fell in Delaware, and the cold wave reduced the mercury until ice was formed in places. Snow alss fell along the Blue Mountain peach belt and the crop will be greatly injured. Apples. pears, qherries and plums are supposed to be badly damaged. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson bulletins to the effect that Kentucky peaches and grapes were damaged, the injury extending to wheat and corn in that locality. Fruit growers in central Ohiofeport that early cherries are all killed. In the northern part of the Sta’te, around Toledo, icc was formed, but there was no frost on account of the dry atmosphere. From lowa comes the report that th« thermometer registered as low as 27 degrees, arid that early togethei with the staple fruits, are al) more or less injured. The center of the State has beer visited with three successive and sever* frosts. '

The Board of Public Control visited the market Wednesday, and many improvements will be made. Several of the suggestions made bj the Reporter some weeks ago will be attended to. Electric lights, painting and whitewashing, moving hay market, etc. Nothing like having < paper to make suggestions occasion, ally.