Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1917 — WILL DOUBLE WHEAT ACREAGE [ARTICLE]

WILL DOUBLE WHEAT ACREAGE

JASPER COUNTY FARMERS WILL SOW LARGE ACREAGE OF WHEAT. The two dollars per bushel offered by the government for the 1918 crop of wheat has acted as a stimulant to the farmers of this county and the acreage of wheat that is being sown will be one hundred per cent larger than in any previous year. Emmett Pullin, of Barkley township, had forty acres of his farm in wheat this year. He has already one hundred and twenty acres sown this fall and will cut up some thirty acres of corn and sow it in wheat, making a hundred and fifty acres in all. Everywhere one goes he “sees a" large amount of ground being pfepartd for wheat. In most instances farmers are using fertilizer, and while it is impossible to get potash, most farmers are convinced that it pays to use fertilizer. If the wheat producing states are increasing their acreage this fall as Jasper county has, there is sure to be a great production of wheat in this country in 1918. See Chas. Pefley for trees, vines and shrubs of all kinds. Guarantee stock to grow or replace free of charge. For fall delivery.