Show DAMAGE by HEAVY FROST wheat and oats ruined in high regions grass and rabbit valley farmers chief sufferers tender vegetables killed in this valley reports from arious anous near by sections of the county tell of damage done by the frost on sunday night potatoes corn tomatoes torm toes cucumber melon melon and other tender plants were laid low and a scarcity of some of those thoe useful vegetables vegetable i vill rill result it is almost unprecedented in its severi severian tN and not in years his has sich si ch an n early frost visited this section it vs so chilly on sunday that it became almost necessary tor for heating stoves to be called into requisition while the frost was nas bad in this valley it was nothing compared to the coli which chich settled down over grass valley there the wheat and oats were in the milk stage of formation and there will be practically no wheat or oats in that nalley alley potato vines were destroyed and the damage to crops generally will be hard to estimate alfalfa fields were turned black and even the weeds were destroyed A wind prevailed from the south all day long which veered around to the north toward evening and continued all night from that point the farm ers thought that this wind would woul ward dward off any frost tut but in the morning it was di discovered covered that everything was hit where water had covered the ground the day previous and along the watercourses water courses the ground vias as frozen to a of a quarter ot an inch it is the most destructive frost the settlers have ever seen in the valley continued on eighth eight b page DAMAGE BY HEAVY FROST I 1 conti continued aul from fust rage fane back in IS 1890 90 there was as a killing frost on august but it was nothing compared to the damage of this cai while aiom grass vally valley ire bad they are not so bad as those from rabbit lalle allea 3 the wheat oats and potito pot ito crops in the high lands of the latter valley are said to be entirely destroyed had the frost been ten da s later comparatively little damage would have resulted as mot t of the cheat and pats gats would li hive ve been ripening but as it is the destruction is sail said to be wide spread |