Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1919 — INDIANA GRAIN CROPS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GRAIN CROPS.

Frankfort—-Elevator men report grain testing low. Most of .it graded No. 3 and No. 4. Peru—Harvest workers are scarce in Miami county at the wage of $5 a day. Women are working in the wheat and hay fields. Delphi—Harve Clawson marketed the first wheat in CanroH county. It tested fifty-seven pounds and averaged twenty-five bushels to the acre.

Princeton l —The best wheat yield in Gibson county reported to local millers is twenty-five bushels to the acre. Average yields are ten to twelve bushels. Rockville—Threshing has started in Parke County. The quality of wheat is far below ,that of last yelar. The best yield reported was twentyfive bushels an acre. Muncie—Seventeen per cent of the Delaware county wheat crop was destroyed by scab, according to the county agent. He has opened a campaign urging farmers to grade their seed wheat. Lebanon—Wheat threshing in Boone county is in progress. The grain is shriveled and the yield is smaller than expected. The oats harvest will begin next week. A bumper crop is predicted. Rochester —The threshing season has begun in Fulton county. The first new Wheat graded No. 3, and sold at $2.07. It is, believed that 'the crop will break all records this year. There is little disease. Shelbyville—Grain dealers and farmers, in the first reports on the 1919 wheat crop in Shelby county, say that the yield is smaller than expected and that the grain is of poor quality. No No. 1 grain has been received at the elevators. Most ' of the wheat that has been delivered is graded No. 3 and No. 4. Dealers say that they believe the average for the county will be about fifteen bushels per acre. Connersville —Twenty-five threshing outfits are at work in this county and new wheat is moving rapidly. The yield is smaller than expected but fanners predict an average yield of about seventeen bushels per acre. . < Vincennes —Many Knox county farmers say the wheat crop is not producing up to the expectations. William J. Piggott, Jr., county agricultural agent, says 107 acres on the I. Whrd Frey farm in the southern part of the county produced nineteen bushels to the acre.