Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1919 — St. Joseph County, Indiana, Largest Producer of Mint. [ARTICLE]

St. Joseph County, Indiana, Largest Producer of Mint.

With the Indiana mint growers realizing $250 to S3OO an acre, reports given out by a county agent and a government crop estimator, show’ that St. Joseph ’'county is the largest mint production county in the United States, and Indiana produces two-thirds of the mint of the United States. During the summer season, 3,425 acres of mint were under cultivation and produced a record-breaking crop. This year the yield near Nappanee-has been unusually large and the farmers have received as high as $6.25 a pound_for their mint ...V. -t