Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1912 — MAN IS FARMING AT NIGHT [ARTICLE]

MAN IS FARMING AT NIGHT

Californian Attachea Searchlights to Hla Plows—Employs Two Crows of Mon. Stockton. Cal.—Farming at night is the innovation just Introduced into this county by E. W. Fowler, who lives twelve miles west of Lodi. Fowler has* two crews of six men each and has been ploying night and day. Immense searchlights are attached to the plqwß and the laborers declare they ean aee at night almost as well as during’ the day. An incongruous feature of the work is tha| when the night crew‘is eating breakfast st f o’clock at nigbt the day shift is eating supper from the Mine table. Fowler planting SMWO acres of barley andhas .esorted to the novel scheme of working 24 hours a day in order twt be may get the grate in before the* neavy rains.