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Show isiiM usir1 : m CROP YIELD Of Great Benefit to Grain in Ground Is Elanket of Crystals. CHICAGO, Dec. According to K J J. Snow, the crop expert, it does not I really matter that tho hhow and coid j over a large area of the northern slates i of the mid-lie west chills to the marrow, I impedes vehicular and railroad traffic land eats into coat supplies. None of, these were suffered in severe measure, Mr. Snow pointed out, whereas the bene- : fit.H to crops are of immeasurable importance. im-portance. The f o i f ii nato ei renin tanco of the, occasion was th fall of snow, needed 1 by Heeded wheat as a blanket of warmth against the cold, and the provision of i mnisttiro for the soil. Majiy things may happen to crops before next har- j vest, hut that, Mr. &now said, does not ' altar the fact that, for the present the j riht thinp happened at the riht time! The most serious incident of tho! Htorm was the sinking of a dredge in Lake "Michigan, near Chicago today, with the loss of seven lives. "SVillis-ton, "SVillis-ton, N. Iak., reported 6 degrees -below zero, while points in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri were not many degrees Iofs cold. Tho weather bureau reported that s marked cold wave has overspread the plains states j and central valleys, with the lowest ; temperatures of record for this time of ! the year. I Tho zero lino on the weather map ex- tended as far south as the Panhandle of Texas. jh southern Missouri a ad southern J llinois the snow fall was unusually un-usually heavy. Rain and snow were reported from eastern Texas, northeastward northeast-ward to tho great lakes. No Huferiny from fuel shortages were reported. |