| Show isaa fhe crops at Randol lipp practically annihilated UTAH august 24 1887 editor deseret news A last about 9 a violent hailstorm accompanied with thunder and lightning passed over our settlement in eat irom from the northwest in fifteen minutes it iway cecili all ali of the grain crops most all our grain was ready to cut and a good part pare would have been had bad it not been for our ui heavy haap op in a few days davs all our grain curling cutting machines would have been at work out of acres of oats that a average per acre acie we will not get five bushels J to 10 the acre lu in fact it is not worth f cutting except for cattle baad in J some fields it is impossible to find ten I 1 i araina era OB of oats on that many heads a our oar oats and barley bailey is threshed out A cleaner than we are aie wont ont to have 1 it dorie done with ane threshing machine we c expected d to harvest hai vest about twenty y or twenty tive live thousand bushels it is id S now thought we will save about one y thousand bushels that was out of the path lath of the storm wheat fated the best but we will not have sufficient to bread us three our pardons gardens are demolished cur rants ilk like our ur grain are knocked off i and beaten into the th ground this has been the best summer dummer we Q CM eaf r i hart bao being free from frost green beaus being and corn in silk and tassel everything indicated a t bounteous harvest the grain part is gone j our bay crop is heavy and our calf product is very good most lmont of our people have each a little bunch t ot cattle to fall back on those 4 C that have no cattle or hay and arf are dependent on their farms H ones that will suffer buttliere but there Is no DO need for any to suffer as our neighbors all around have plenty and we can get from them as we have done often be fore when the frost instead of hail took our crops we are here to stay K aud still clarai to ta have one of the best valleys in I 1 he mountains mounta ioa f yours respectfully JOHN SNOWBALL i |
