Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1911 — Another Benefit From Drainage Not Taken Into Consideration. [ARTICLE]

Another Benefit From Drainage Not Taken Into Consideration.

Crown Point Star. It was necessary a few years ago to keep men working full time in the corn fields on the Kankakee shooting .black birds or they would practically ruin the crop when it was in milk, but the drying of the great swamps which were their nesting places has nearly put an end to the little redwinged pests which hatched by the millions. They are growing less each year, and while a large flock can be seen now and then the draining of the marshes and ponds in Lake county is fast doing away with them. They ruined a small per cent of the crop each year, but the damage they are doing now is of hardly any consequence. That can also be credited to Want to rant your property? Um our classified column.

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Forty-one thousand blank forms for hunters’ license have been prepared in the office of the state fish and game commissioner to be sent’to the clerks of the various counties in preparation for the fall and winter hunting season. Last year the clerks ran out of forms about the noddle of the fall shooting, and considerable trouble resulted. The shipment this fall will be made large enough to Jnsure every clerk a sufficient supply to last through the season. /

Some good sized white corn is being eyhibited in Warner Bros.’ window. One ear, 14% inches long, comes from the Gifford land and other good sized ears are from the same land. The tip of the long ear is very poor and Frank Ham says it is poor because the ear grew too fast for the husk and it was unprotected. Willis Lutz is at work on a fertilizer composition that will make the husk grow as fast and as long as the ear. Other good corn on display there is from the farm of Firman Thompson, in Union township. Nothing has attracted so much attention, however, as the tall stock displayed at The Republican office, which was broupht in by Millard Fross. Illinois farmers stand and gaze at it as though they were being deceived by their eyes. One man insisted that it was spliced and looked it over carefully to find the seam. It is all one stalk, however, and Millard’s challenge has not been accepted by any other tall corn grower. This stalk has a big ear, which come* out from th* the thirteenth point, 9 feet and 7 inches from the ground.