Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1917 — Newland Onions Reported as Fine. [ARTICLE]

Newland Onions Reported as Fine.

Reports from Newland state that onions in that section are making great headway and that the prospects for a bumper crop are fine. Thomas Callahan, of this city, Bas about forty acres in cultivation and S. C. Irwin 35 acres, and they are making nice progress. Practically all of the land in the Newland vicinity is given over to raising onions, the soil being especially adapted for them. It is to be hoped that the onions do not meet with a setback as has been the case so much in the past, for they are very high at present and a large acreage this fall will help materially in reducing the high cost of living. Alfred Donnelly, the King of them all in the onion business, also has fine prospects for a good yield. Hairy Moore, son of B. J. Moore, has indulged in onion growing for the past two years and has out several acres, which are fully as nice as any we have seen.