Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1918 — ENEMY AGENT BLAMED FOR POOR WHEAT CROP [ARTICLE]

ENEMY AGENT BLAMED FOR POOR WHEAT CROP

Salem, O. —Enemy agents are blamed for an Insect pest which has reduced Butler township’s bumper wheat crop to much less than normal- The ravages of* the Insect have been tremendous. Last winter the farmers now remember an aged man of German extraction was observed wandering about the township visiting wheat fields to the exclusion of others, .and apparently digging in them with his hands, as if burying something in the soil.