Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1904 — Some Winter Comparisons [ARTICLE]

Some Winter Comparisons

Lewis S. Alter, of Carpenter tp., sends the notes regarding the winter just past, and former winters: After 3 months and 25 days the ground is clear of snow, which is a record breaker for this country. About 1857 or ’SB cattle could make a good living on the prairie grass all winter while in 1851 there was ni grass the Ist of May and ground froze considerable on the 2nd with snow flurries. The winter of ’75 and ’76 grass was growing Jan, Ist, with scarcely any freezing weather all winter. The writer plucked dandelions in bloom Dec 31, 1887. 80 “say not why were the former days better than these etc. This winter was too much for the peach crop in Jasper.