Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1893 — BAD CONDITION OF WHEAT. [ARTICLE]

BAD CONDITION OF WHEAT.

The Chicago Farmer’s Review, of the 22d, said: “Reports on winter wheat show that inmost of the States a critical point has been reached, and on the next few weeks will depend the future of the crop. In Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky there has been so much freezing and thawing; alternating with ice and snow, that many of the correspondents confess themselves at this time unable to tell the exact condition of the plant. In some sections the snow melted and formed ice over the wheat, and this ice was in turn covered with a heavy blanket of snow, which still remains. In such cases it can on Iy be conjectured as to the Condition. In other places the ice and snow have melted and the top of the plant, seems to be in bad shape, but the roots are apparently all right. In yet other localities the plant has been frozen out.”