Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1917 — Money In Wheat and Oats. [ARTICLE]

Money In Wheat and Oats.

Brook Reporter. Charles White sold $936 worth of wheat from a ten acre field and had a few bushels to spare. Charles Myers had a field of 115 acres of oats that yielded 71 bushels per acre. Wm. Ulyatt had a field of 30 acres that turned out 74 bushels per acre. Frank Mallatt had a field that looked to be about the shortest in the country that yielded 63 bushels per acre.

The 150 acres on the O. M. Lyons farm yielded 60 bushels of oats per acre. O. M. says that in the big crop of 1915 he kept 350 bushels’of oats less on the farm than this year and yet had SI,OOO more money to put in the bank this year from the crop.