Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1917 — Interesting Letter From Former Resident. [ARTICLE]

Interesting Letter From Former Resident.

Lake Wilson, Minn., Oct. 9, 1917. Rensselaer Republican, Rensselaer, Ind. Dear Rirs; --———- Enclosed find $2.00 check for my subscription fee to The Republican. We are having fine weather and our first killing frost came Sunday night, Oct. 7. Corn is all dry and never saw better in Indiana. However, east and south of us the frost did some damage early in September, about the same time you got your killing frost. Small grain is fine, oats averaging from 60 to 95 and barley 40 to 50 bushels to the acre. I had 35 acres of flax that made 17 bushels to the acre. An average yield is 10 to 12 bushels. We drove over into South Dakota Sunday and saw thousands of acres of fine corn that was ripe and that had not been frosted in the least. Land in this section is selling from SIOO to $l5O and is rapidly being taken up by lowa and Illinois farmers who know a good thing when they see it. A Benton county farmer visited us recently and was so favorably impressed with the country that he bought a half section about two miles north of us and expects to move on it himself. Indiana is all right but there are other states in the union equally as good. The latch string is always out to friends who want to see Minnesota. Kindest regards to all. GEO. W. BOND.