Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1915 — Big Wheat Crop Will Make Prosperity for Rensselaer Mill. [ARTICLE]

Big Wheat Crop Will Make Prosperity for Rensselaer Mill.

Several farmers who had fields of rye have begun to cut it and all are getting ready to cut wheat and one or two are reported to have already started cutting, but most fields are still a little grew. By the last of this week or the first of next, however, the binders will be gathering the greatest wheat crop ever grown in Jasper county and the threshing machine owners are getting ready to start up and by the middle of July it is expected that wheat will be coining in to the mill and the elevators. Ralph Sprague, who owns the Iroquois Roller Mills and who has put them in the best possible shape by installing the most modern machinery looks with much satisfaction on the hig wheat crop and says that the hard wheat grown in Jasper and adjoining counties has no superior for flour. Mr. Sprague’s mill has a capacity of 70 barrels per day and he has frequently run it up to capacity since the new machinery was installed. Now, however, there is practically no old wheat and he has been getting ready for the hig rush that is sure to come when the wheat is thrashed. This is the first modern mill Jasper county has had and should be given the encouragement of every wheat grower and flora user. Mr. Sprague advertises that he will take back any flour that is not entirely satisfactory and pay cash for the wheat exchanged for it at the market price on the day it was delivered at the mill. We hope to see him rushed to the limit of the mill’s capacity and believe this will result.