Show J f i I I HAILSTORM HAVOC GREAT DAMAGE DONE TO WHEAT CROPS OF KANSAS Insurance Against Loss from Statins of This Kind Is Now Taken Out by Many of the I Farmers Hailstorms have dostioycd more wheat In Kansas In the last ten years limn all flue grasshoppers and ch nch bugs sliro tho state was organized said u fin tncr from southern Kjnns whose crop was destroyed by a recent storm In that section l nst year OliO hailstorm In the northern part of Simmer county and the southern part of Sedgwlck swept an area lid miles long by two miles wide About 890l acres most of It In growing wheat that promised to yield 25 bushels to tho acre were destroyed A half million dollars worth of wheat was ruined In that one storm Tho hailstorm was never cared by the Kansas farmer until wheat became be-came a staple crop Corn will recover from a hailstorm and make an average crop but u light fall of Ice at a certain time will ruin a crop of wheat May and Juno are the months of hailstorms In Kansas In France and Spain where the hailstorms hail-storms destroy tho grape crop large cannon havo been placed on the hills above tho vineyards At the approach of a hailstorm explosives are shot Into tho cloud and Its a belief among farmers laughed at by scientific men that the storm Is sometimes dissipated dissi-pated Tho Kansas farmer doesnt bombard the clouds lIe has found that It pays better to Insure his crops Hall Insurance companies have been organized The farmer Insures his wheat crop against hull just as the man In the city Insures his house against fire Ho places whatever value on his crop ho can afford to pay the premium on Some farmers occasionally occasional-ly Insure so heavily that they would not object to a hailstorm to save the expense of harvesting the crop Tho first hall Insurance companies were mutual companies organized among the farmers of a county or n district It was soon found that those companies were not safe because n hailstorm usually cleared n whole district dis-trict Then each fanner was com polled to bear his own loss for the mutual company could not pay Eastern East-ern capitalists have formed a number of hall Insurance companies In time las five years Farmers have a belief that hall will follow the same path for threo consecutive con-secutive years So If a hailstorm destroys de-stroys a crop they Insure heavily for the next two years > |