Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1914 — Had Sixty Acres of Wheat That went 36 Bushels Per. [ARTICLE]

Had Sixty Acres of Wheat That went 36 Bushels Per.

Walter V. Potter* who has been raising wheat for some years on his Jordan township farm, had out 60 acres the past year. It made 36 bushels to the acre. His oats made an average of only 23 bushels. Wheat Is worth 73 cents a bushel, oats about 30. Thus his wheat was worth $26.28 per acre and the oats only $6.90 per acre. Mr. Porter stated recently that his 8-year average on oats was only about $8 per acre. With a crop of wheat every four years any farmer would be better off than raising oats every year. Probably the experience of every farmer is about the same. Will Hoover had oats tfiat averaged 34 bushels to the acre. The average year will probably not exceed 25 bushels per acre, if, indeCd. it wffl be "TWr year it Was jpbout the same. The threshers are busy now and reports Will come'in frequently, In all probability. So far the Hoover oats yield is the largest we have heard ot Mr. Porter marketed 1,800 bushels of his wheat as soon as threshed, at the Babcock & Hopkins elevator, and it was burned In the fire Saturday night. The elevator firm, however, carried sufficient insurance on grain to cover the entire loss of all farmers.