Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1911 — Irrigation Instead of Drainage May Eventually Be Needed. [ARTICLE]

Irrigation Instead of Drainage May Eventually Be Needed.

The drouth on the Kankakee marsh still continues, and the land owners there who have labored long and spent great amounts of money ditching the water away, will soon commence figuring on a way to irrigate from wells, says the Crown Point Star. It doesn’t seem plausible that they have overdone the matter of shutting the water out, but nevertheless it is gradually drying and it will not be surprising that time will necessitate irrigating ditches.

From a|l indications the honey crop will be an almost entire failure this year. In Jasper and surrounding counties, -where last year the crop was so large that the bee keepers could hardly take care of it, this year there bas tardly been a pound of surplus. B. F. Cavanaugh, a large bee keeper living near Hebron, who keeps over 600 colonies' of bees, has not yet taken off a pound of honey. X. Geesa, of near Virgie, another large bee keeper, report&the same conditions, as do the other large bee kedVers in the county. Jasper county can generally depend on a good fall flow of honey, but this year indications do not point that way. Only a few points in the whole United States report a good crop of honey this year.

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