Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1914 — UNION TOWNSHIPS BIG WHEAT OUTPUT [ARTICLE]

UNION TOWNSHIPS BIG WHEAT OUTPUT

Accurate Statement o! Yield on Big Ranch of Firman Thompson and Also of Others.

• Union township has marketed at the Parr elevator about 15,000 bushels of wheat this year and so successful was the crop that the farmers are not only elated that they had big crops for the revenue it brings but because it sustains their contention that Union township is well to the front in diversified -farming. ♦ —Firman Thompson had out a total of 198.2 acres on his big ranch. He had it surveyed last weak in order to determine the exact acreage and the following figures are exact: A field of 36.9 acres averaged 36.5 Ibushels. A field of 77 acres averaged 31.1 bushels. A field of 25% acres bushels. A field of 38.8 acres averaged 19.7 bushels. This flefld was drilled in corn stubble. A field of 20 acres put out by a tenant averaged 16.6 bushels. The total crop on the Thompson ranch was 5,512 bushels, or an average of 27.9 bushels per acre. Amos Alter had a field of 10 acres which averaged 42% bushels to the acre. Amos Davisson had one field of 16 acres that averaged 31% bushels per acre and another field of 30 acres that averaged 29% bushels.

The Rose Bud ring is completing its run today, Wednesday. Peter Hordeman did the threshing. There ■was a total of about 8,000 bushels and the yield varied from 20 to 40 bushels to the acre. Ohas. D. Lakin had one field of 30 acres that averaged 40 bushels. Mr. Thompson used two kinds of seed on the ranch, both pure grade seed. On the high ground he used PoolenSmoot wheat and on the low ground he used Gypsy-Bearded. He had no smut or cheat and it was practically free from rye. The, seed was secured from Joe Wing, of Ohio. Mr. Thompson is convinced that he has secured seed that is best adapted to this country and he has saved 1,000 bushels for seed.