Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1898 — STORM HAMPERS FARMERS. [ARTICLE]

STORM HAMPERS FARMERS.

Plowing and Thrashing Stopped by the Snow and Kain. Reports from various points in Minnesota and the Dakotas say farming operations are much impeded by snow and rain. Kennedy, Minn., had twenty consecutive hours of snow and rain. Thousands of acres of wheat and flax are still in shock, and the fields are so soft that machinery cannot be moved. It is too wet to plow, and less than 50 per cent of the plowing is done. Lisbon, Minn., reports from six inches to a foot of snow on the ground; thrashing stopped and the prospects for resumption far from promising. Considerable flax in scattered localities is still on the ground. At Marion Junction, S. D., the snow was accompanied by a strong northwest wind, drifting it badly. Aberdeen, S. D„ says a strong northwest wind has been blowing, and it is snowing hard. At Tyndall, S. D., several inches of snow has fallen, and it lies in heavy drifts.