Show CROPS DAMAGED BY SEVERE FROST not for a good many years has this section been visited by such a sevire severe frost as that which sent the thermometer down last night tuesday night was a cold one also but last night was the big freeze and that it did considerable damage there Is no question A visit t was made this morning to the orchards lying on the west anil and south by J C knudson W T dvis geo W watkins and victor E madsen and what they found was vas most gratifying in view of 0 the gloomy outlook when morning dawned down on the old knudson farm very ittle damage has been done to any of the fruit the peaches look all right cherries are not hurt and even the apricots which have been out la in full bloom tor for several days will produce a good crop the peach orchard ot of nets nels clansen just across the street cast ot of the knudson farm arm was hit hard but in view ot of the fact that the tha bloom Is so heavy there will be a good crop on the trees it if no further frost comes along on A N alsens place farther south on peach tres which are arc three deais years old this spring there will bo be a bumper crop the duds buds are not opened very much yet vet and it Is very doubtful it if the frost took enough of them to obviate the necessity of thinning passing along to N S Christoffer sons place on south main his cherries were found to be badly hit in fact abe e buds examined proved to be vari veritable table black back beauties for they were ere black as coal mr Chri states however that he has other trees on which the fruit has not been so seriously damaged and from which he be will harvest a crop of cherries the old trees of tho the fish burn orchard across the street have been pruned pretty heavily and tha buds were out so much that the frost took mawr of anem but there will be a crop of deac ea all right there Down on J C Jen jansens jensens sens place where smudging was done last right night tho the frost got some of th buds and left some mr martin anderson andersen exhibited some branches loaded with buds that were taken from standings orchard over on tho the fourth ward flat the branches haio baio plenty of good buds on them and it if no more frost comes mr air standing will likely have to thin ire ho had his heaters beaters going last night but got an early start and did not replenish the pots when they thoy burned out so it was feared that the crop as the temperature went down farther early this morning than at any other time lime branches were also exhibited from walt Ma mangeng Mad deens geng orchard south of the standing orchard tho the ratio ot of good buds being about iwo I 1 wo in five down in ane northwest part of town continued on page tour our CROPS mm DAMAGED BY FROSTS continued from first page about the same condition exists jesse wight had his heaters going during the night but was unable to save all the buds others experienced the same thing on the extreme south down tho the perry line the cold wave created havoc but from the investigation in other sections there is no doubt but that there will be peaches tile the cherries seem to be theli the hardest ardest hit with th apricots a close second As to just how cold it got thermos ebors vary on the holman place just south of the short line depot the mer cury went down below 20 degrees above zero 21 degrees was reported by mr N J valentine sir mr G W watkins reported that the for at his place registered 28 at 10 at 1 the sky was cloudy and the mercury went up to 29 by 3 it had bad dropped to 23 and the same conditions prevailed over at peter bairds bairas place john W francis thermometer registered 7 higher than the watkins and baird instruments over on the fourth ward war d flat the mercury went down to 20 it was a mighty hard freeze that it did damage there is no question but that it killed filled the fruit crop there is any amount of doubt the peach harvest promises to be great this year unless the cold continues tonight and takes what is left |