| Show Killing Frosts Hit Two One-Two Punch Two killing frosts and one that was almost a killer have hit this area during the p pas past a s t week and have done an inestimable inestimable inestimable ines ines- amount of damage The first came on Thursday night of last week and the m mercury dropped to anywhere from two to ten degrees below belO freezing depending on whose thermometer ter did the recording where it was located and who told about it A slightly milder freeze came during Monday night and then thena a second heavy frost came on Tuesday night to just about complete destruction of tender garden plants and flowers and to hit the alfalfa crop a stunning stunning stunning stun stun- ning blow The official government government government govern govern- ment thermometer at the Sor- Sor enson experiment field southeast southeast southeast south south- east of Ephraim registered 29 degrees on the 32 on the and 29 again during Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day night the low of 29 coming after midnight or in the wee hours of Wednesday The fhe first frost froze corn beans potatoes cucumbers to tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes to- to matoes and some other garden plants It also laid the alfalfa low especially in areas where where the crop was light Sweet clover clover clover clo clo- ver in the lower lands was really really really real real- ly stunned by that first frost the worst since March Much of the alfalfa seemed to rally and was looking pretty good by Sunday and Monday But th the Tuesday night Wednes day morning freeze seemed to put the finishing touches on the growth of most alfalfa Any growth now will be new growth from the bottom of the plants farmers report and most of them are now cutting the hay or will cut it as soon as possible It is feared that rye crops now headed out might have been damaged greatly also that some of the fall faIl grain in the boot stage might also have been damaged Fruit trees also were hit hard with a total loss on some plum apple and apricot trees while others seem not to have been injured at all The frost damage was patchy in the same lots loLl and fields It appeared to have been m in much u e c Ii h heavier in the Ephraim Mantl area than up around Fairview which is to feet higher in altitude |
