Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-07
Killing Frost Sunday Night Re-
suits in Damage to Small
Fruits--Strawbcrries Suffer
ONLY HALF A CROP LEFT
Rackwardncss Of Season Keeps Vines
From Blossonins, and 1t is Thought
That Half a Crop May Be Saved
Cherries Apparently All Risht-Ap-
Apples Escape Much Damage.

Heavy frost both Saturday and sun
day night resulted from the sudden
drop In temperature. and from sun
day nights killing freeze the sinall
fruit Of this section OF the state Is
thought to be more or less damaged
Pums, from statements of fruit grow
ers. have suffered worst, and began
showing the effects of the freeze by the
middle of the forenoon. 1t Is not be-
leved that most Of the other crops are
very much hurt, altho 1t will be Inn
possible to tell for n few days just
what the extent of the damage VIII be.
The mercury fell to % Sunday night
and 80 Saturday night. Water. In ves-
sells out of doors. froze on both nights.
but the wind and cloudy weather pre-
vented the frost from doing any dam
age on Saturday night. After renain-
Ing cloudy and windy all day Sunday
the heavens cleared toward evening.
and the sun set clear. The mercury
fell from AZ at Sunday evening to rs
and the blossoms suffered as u result.
Mrs. A. C. cripps, Of Albion, who
conducts one of the largest fruit farms
in the county, said to the T.-R. this
morning that from her observations
plums are the worst damaged. Mrs.
Grips states that the heavily laden
tree began TO lose their blossoms by
the middle of the forenoon. which Is
early for the effects to be shown after
a freeze. II will be two or three days
before anything definite may be
learned as to the general damage to
small fruits, however.
Mrs. Cripps was especially Interest,"
ed this morning in her Strawberries.
She has patch of five acres In straw
berries, and all their blossoms that
were out were killed. The season has
been backward for strawberries, how
ever, and Mrs. Cripps thinks that she
will still have half crop.
Cherries according to MRS. Grips,
are not damaged. II have known my
cherry trees said Mrs. Grips, to have
Sunday night, with the mercury twelve
degrees below the freezing point, and
still borne good crop. ! am not wor-
rying any over Them
Mrs. Cripps does not think that ap-
pies VIII be damaged. as she says they
are hardly far enough along. They
may be damaged some, however.
Raspberres are not hurt, and the same
is true OF grapes. Currents, however,
are damaged, and We're found frozen
on the bushes.
Satia Says Plums Arc Hurt.
Charley Satia, one of the best
known gardeners of the city, has in
spected his garden truck and fruit to-
day. and pronounces little II any dam
age to anything excepting plums.
Dry Weather Saves Fruit,
According to A. d. Summers, one OF
the well-known fruit growers living
southeast of the city. after an inspec-
ton OF his orchards today. says that IN
his opinion the dry weather of recent
weeks Is responsible for the lack or
damage to some OF the small fruits as
q result of the heavy frost Of Sunday
night. Mr. Summers says 1t is as yet
impossible to tell just what the dam
age will amount to on his place, as
there were no signs of damage up to
noon. He thinks, however. that plums
will be damaged.
w. A. Cope, q fruit grower living on
Yves Main street, west Of the city,
says that there will be damage to many
Of the small fruits but he thinks the
plums show the most marked effects
Of the frost.