Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1911 — J. W. Blacker Says He Has Best Onions in Gifford Marsh. [ARTICLE]

J. W. Blacker Says He Has Best Onions in Gifford Marsh.

J. W. Blacker was in from Newland today. He made a business trip to Delphi, where, for a number of years, he was engaged in the trucking business. He has out six acres of onions in the Clifford country. He goes further than that and says they are better onions than Alfred Donnelly, the Globe Onion Farm head, will be able to raise this year. Mr. Blacker estimates that he will have 800 bushels of onions to the acre. He also has out two acres of watermelons and a like acreage of cantaloupes.