Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-05-09
COLD WEATHER HAS HAD NO
BAD EFFECTS so FAR.
FRUIT CROP WILL BE GOOD
No Harm Has Resulted to Early Sown
Seeds and Grains-Season Three
Weeks Late-Corn and Potatoes
May Be Planted In Season Farm
Help Is Scored and Wages High.

home grown garden sass quite as
early as some Of the people farther
south yet in many respects they have
an advantage, especially in that
when they SOW they have an assurance
that they may reap.
From Illinois and Indiana, and even
from Ohio, there come reports of Sc
riOus injury done to early planted
crops, such as gaTdenstuffs and
spring grains, by the late cold wealth
seeds have rotted in the ground and
replanting has been necessary quite
generally and as a consequence the
markets cannot be supplied with the
early vegetables until fully a month
later than usual
From Wisconsin points there come
no reports of rOtting seed except it be
in low, cold soils, where the most r.
vOTab'e conditions of warmth and dry
ness are essential to termination. In
Dane county the early sown grains
and garden seeds have all terminated
nicely and are well rooted and ready
for rapid growth when the warm
weather does come.
MI George Holt, a local gardener,
says that his radiShes, onions, lettuce
and spinIch are thriving and show 40
signs Of injury I'Om the cold while
Professor r. A. Moore of the expert
ment station at the university college
of agriculture says that there are no
reports Of injury to the early sown
grains. He says that the season Or
the cereal crops is fully three weeks
later than last year but that if the
We tther comes off warm now the corn
and pOtatOe crops may be planted fully
as early as in ordinary years, that is
from May 10 TO 20. He Slys THAT the
old seeding of clover and timothy
have been injured somewhat by the
freezing and thawing but that in all
likelihood the injury has not been dis
aatrous except in small localities.
MIR. Lewis Post of the town OF Md
ison is an extensive grower of small
fruits aliI from his farm il is report
ed that no injury has thus far come
from cold or wet to the fruit crops.
His strawberries are not yet uncoy-
cred but are in fine condition and the
same may be said of the raspberrIes
ana biackberrieS. Plums and apples,
too, are reported as showing no signs
OF INJURY
Professor Sandsten of the norticul-
turaI department at the university
says that there has been as yet ahso-
iufeiy no INJURY TO the frult crops Ia
Wisconsin from the cold, backward
weather 'h't the condlp,on mas oeeA
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State Crop Report.
Secretary John NJ. True of the
state board of agriculture has issued
the following report under date Of
May !:
The object of this initial number of
crop reports for the current season,
was to ascertain the condition Of
those crops most liable to be affected
bv winter weather seventies: the es-
innate of acreage of principal farm
crops for the coming season. in COM
harrison with that of last wear and tba
condition and nrices of live stock
Winter grains and grasses incIud-
inc clover and alfalfa were consid-
cred 10 he in excellent shane during
tho warm weather of March and
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