Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1917 — Large Yield of Wheat On Everett Halstead Ranch. [ARTICLE]

Large Yield of Wheat On Everett Halstead Ranch.

Wm. Walters put in a few acres of wheat on the Everett Halstead ranch, well protected by timber, and threshed out 46 bushels to the acre, selling it for $2.25 a bushel at Mt. Ayr, making $103.50 worth of wheat on teach acre. Mr. Harris, the elevator man, very generously turned this over to the neighbors fqr seed at the same price. Randolph Wright had 35 acres of oats on the same farm which turned out 76 bushels to the acre.