Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1917 — Soft Corn Situation Cannot Be Minimized [ARTICLE]

Soft Corn Situation Cannot Be Minimized

Jasper county farmers now begin fully to realize the gravity of the situation presented by the failure to mature of a large portion of the corn crop. Usually the prices of cribbing corn is well advanced, by the close of November, but the end of the month this year will see the task hardly begun. Never before in the history of the county was there as much" soft corn as there is now. The situation is one of the most perplexing Jasper county farmers have ever faced. They know that much of the corn is so soft that it will never be fit to crib. They can not afford to let it waste, for it has a great food value if it could be fed immediately, but many of them have no hogs, or not a sufficient number to consume it. The last week has seen dozens and scores of farmers driving thru the country trying to find young hogs that might be bought and fed out on this soft corn, Most of them have met with no success whatever on these trips. The farmers who have young hogs also have soft corn and are going to keep the hogs to consume the corn. This creates a hard situation for the farmer who has the corn but no hogs. It means that he is threatened with the loss of his soft corn.