Show LOSSES BY BV THE STORMS There will be a serious falling off in the crops in inthe inthe inthe the prairie states this year It rained every day for thirty days just at ut the critical time and corn and oats are killed on thousands yes Jes millions of acres We Ye take it that the crop will be short 25 per cent this year Jear ear compared with last for the storms have been general over oyer all the corn and cotton area and I have havo climb climbed tho the and submerged the valleys valleys val val- leys of or Montana fontana and killed half the lambs In Montana Mon on tana tuna it will require millions of dollars to put the railroads in hi running order again It has been the toughest spring ng that the farmers have havo run up against for perhaps half a century |