Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1914 — Benjamin Harris Estimates Corn Crop at 60 Per Cent. [ARTICLE]

Benjamin Harris Estimates Corn Crop at 60 Per Cent.

Benjamin Harris, who has been a corn raiser in this part of Indiana for a half century, expresses the belief that this year’s crop will average from 20 to 21 bushels to the acre. Average years the crop runs about 35 bushels per acre and his estimate is that the crop is about 60 per cent Of average. Mr. Harris says that wherever there was a healthy stock with a fair chance to grow an ear, the ear is of good size and fine quality, but a good many stalks are small and the corn runty. The crop is so much better than -was expected during the long drouth t’fiat a good many are very well pleased that feared almost complete failure some time ago.