Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — Remarkable Corn Field. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable Corn Field.

Prof. Thomas L. Cor, who has recently returned from Morrllton, says crops are unusually good In that vicinity. He says there Is one cornfield near Morrilton that will produce 200 bushels to the acre. This is a remarkable statement, and yet he declares that it Is true. Until a year or so ago there waa a lake near Morrllton covering about 10,000 acres. When the big floods came two years ago, an opening was made by the surging waters which carried off all the water of this lake when the floods subsided. The bed of the lake dried up and left the richest soli the world ever saw. It is ten feet deep, and nothing the River Nile ever produced could excel it. This year Mills and Halley have a crop of corn on about 1,000 acres of this land. They sowed the corn broadcast like wheat, and the stalks are as strong as saplings, and scores of “shoots” come from every stalk. Besides the big ears on the stalks, the “shoots” are also loaded down. “It is the most remarkable corn crop ever produced in the world,” declared Prof. Cox, and, to make the story even more interesting, he ended it by declaring that a “coon” was caught between the stalks, and, being unable to extricate Itself because they were so thick, was killed by those who came upon it.—Little Rock Democrat.