Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1917 — Benton County Leading Corn County of State. [ARTICLE]

Benton County Leading Corn County of State.

The United States department of agriculture has compiled a list of the eading com producing counties of the state and nation and in Indiana Benton county is found to be the leader. The leading counties in the matter of com production, aside from Benton, are: Knox, Montgomery, Tippecanoe; Boone, Clinton, Madison, and Shelby. The ten leading com producing states according to the ’ast year’s production are: Illinois. lowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Indiana, Texas, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma and Kentucky.