River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-03-29
FROZE THE FRUIT.
Fears That the Cold Has Proven Fatal to
the Ruds-Nyheat Growers Scared

rears That the Cold Has Proven Fatal to
the Buds-Wbeat Growers Scared.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March as.- Re-
ports from all parts of Indiana an
nounce that fruit has been killed by
the cold weather of the last three
nights. In southern Indiana peach
trees were in bloom and the farmers
believed they were to have the larges.
crop of recent years. The temperature
has been down to within ten degrees
of zero and experts say that not only
will the fruit be killed but early vege-
tation of all kinds will suffer serious
ly. Encouraged by the warm weather
many gardeners had vegetables in the
ground.
CHICAGO, March 2a is feared that
the recent cold snap, following a season
of warm weather, greatly damaged the
winter wheat crop, but IL is too soon
to give even an approximate estimate
of the injury. Even those in the best
position to judge differ in their opin-
IONS ana are disposed to await
later and more definite advices
The crop is thought to have been
damaged in western Kansas and Okla
homa, though ray of hope is found in
the fact that the ground was dry. Cen
trail aud eastern Kansas is reported to
have escaped without serious loss
Opinions on the Minnesota crop
are contradictory, but it is likely
to suffer if the cold weather is fol-
lowed by sudden thaw. Some
farmers think that in the absence of
alternate freezing and thawing the
wheat has escaped damage. 1t is
thought the Ohio crop was not far
enough advanced to be injured. In
eastern and central Nebraska wheat is
believed to have suffered severely,
but farther north and west the re-
cent snowfall has protected the grow
ing plants. Ii is feared that Indiana
wheat has suffered considerably, but il
the cold has not reached the roots, as
Is hoped, the damage may not be as
serious as feared. A report from
Sparta, Ill. says the crop is badly dam
aged. IN one locality to the extent of
so per cent 1t is thought
Michigan has escaped without serious
injury. North and South Dakota
are not in the winter wheat belt. In
the latter the melting snow will bene-
fit spring wheat In the former plant
ing is backward. and the acreage of
spring wheat will be one-third less
than last year.
BENTON, Ill. March 2s.-Careful in
vestigation by expert horticulturists
confirms the general fear of fruit men
throughout the southern Illinois apple
belt that the crop is entirely killed.
Thousands of young trees will share
the same fate as the growing crop.
The loss falls all the heavier from the
fact that the crop has been almost a
total failure for three years past, and
many seriously contemplate abandon
ing the business One of the largest
growers of small fruits said that all told
there would not go from this section a
carload of berries, apples, peaches,
plums and pears combined. During an
ordinary good year something like fifty
carloads day leave during the sea-
son.
Hu.LsBoRo, Ill, March 2s.-The oat
and clover crops have been ruined by
the severe freeze and it Is also believed
| that peaches, pears, cherries and APP
pies have been killed
ST. LOUIS. March %. - The cold
weather which began here Friday last
reached It's lowest point Sunday night
with a local temperature of 10 degrees
above zero. AS a -esult reports are
coming in from all directions of dam
age to fruit Crops of berries aud
fruits given an early start by the re-
cent warm weather are now an abso-
lutte loss
DETROIT, Mich, March 2s.-T he
fruit belt of Michigan is al dan
ger from the fall of the Their
mometer TO within degrees of the
zero mark. The range was II de-
grees above that. Everywhere the
peach buds on the trees of the earlier
varieties are frozen stiff. They were
in an unprecedentedly advanced stage
owin6, To the warm weather of the
previous ten days. Apples and
| cherries are also considerably injured,
but the full extent cannot be told until
the sun warns them up. Along the
Lake Michigan shore, where there was
heavy fall of snow, straw berries and
shrub fruits were protected, but far
ther inland and approaching the east
ern border of the state they were left
unprotected and were badly frozen.
The same is true of winter wheat 1t
was never in better condition than
Saturday and is mostly covered by
snow
PoMERoY, O., March % The temper
ature fell to IS degrees above zero Sun
day night. Peaches, which are in full
bloom, and other early fruits are prob
ably killed in southern Ohio The
| ground is white with snow.
| CINCINNATI, March 2S.-Tne Their
mometer Sunday night fell to 10 de-
grees above zero Fruit and berries
are killed, but the damage to wheat
and other crops was not serious, al
though they are further advanced than
usual.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 2s. Reports
received from Enterprise, Macon,
Utica. Columbus, Brookhaven, Yazoo
City, Madison, Canton, Oxford aud
Corinth, Miss; Dallas, Tex; Monroe,
Gibbsland. Alexandria, Clinton and
Bayou. La; Pensacola, Fla, and
Dallas, Tex, are to the effect that q
severe frost visited those sections Mon
day morning forming ice half an inch
thick, destroying early vegetables,
Strawberries, the fruit crop, and in
some places early corn and oats and
peas.
| Fishermen Drowned.
HOLLAND, Mich, March 2s.-A party