Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1904 — FIRST KILLING FROST. [ARTICLE]

FIRST KILLING FROST.

Sunday’s sudden change to colder brought the first heavy frost of the season this Monday morning. The frost was so decided that it could still be seen on shed roofs and on grass in low places until sjven o’clock. There had been some very light frosts earlier in the season, in a few places, but this was the first general frost, and the first sufficiently heavy to kill vegetation. It has come too late however, to do very much damage, There were still a few fields of corn, mostly those planted very late, on sod, which were still green and will be much damaged, and in most fields were still many green stalks, but on the whole the corn crop in this vicinity is safe, and an unusually fine crop will be harvested. The lowest temperature reached here at the U. S. Weather bureau station was 36 degrees, which was four degrees colder than the coldest heretofore this season.