Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1911 — Record Wheat Crop. [ARTICLE]

Record Wheat Crop.

Dixon, Ill—Elmer Byers of Palmyra township has won the record of having raised the best crop of wheat in that township. He had ten acres that yielded 191 bushels by machine measure. giving sixty pounds to the bushel. The wheat average In Lee county has increased about a third over last year.