Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1918 — The above photograph, taken on the farm of Wood Brothers, of Marion [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The above photograph, taken on the farm of Wood Brothers, of Marion

townshp, shows the effect of liming and the growing of cowpeas on the oat crop following. The land on the right was given an application of ground limestone in the spring of 1917. The land on the left had no limestone. The land was planted to corn and the limed portion sown to cowpeas at the last cultivation, The limed land yielded oats at the rate of 46.5 bushels per acre, while the unlimed portion yielded but 22.7.