Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1920 — SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS MADE [ARTICLE]

SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS MADE

JASPER COUNTY FARMS CO. MANAGER MAKING SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS 1 Substantial - progress is being made by H. P. Kuppers, who is in charge of two thousand acres of land* being developed and improved by the Jasper County Farms Co. This body of land is located in Barkley township and a considerable portion of it is muck land. Mr. Kuppers is a graduate of Purdue university and was before he enlisted for the service in the Great War a county agent in Kentucky. He is seeking the best assistance it is possible to secure. His manager, Mr. McKinney is a Purdue graduate and he has a young man who is the store keeper at Newland, who is also a graduate from Purdue. He has sought and secured some of the very best men to be found to raise onions. By giving them a more favorable contract he Jias been able to secure men from other onion fields, especially from Ohio and their ability with this crop is shown in the condition of the dhe hundred acres of onions now growing upon the Farm Go’s, lands. One of the provisiQifsqftheeontgect* which Mr. Kuppers makes with those engaged in raising onions is the monthly allowance of $6.00 per acre while the crop is being planted, matured and harvested. Should the crop be a failure this allowance amounting to S3O per acre worild be lost by the company and the tenant would not be in debt//

Everything that is being done by the present management is along a Substantial line, the idea being to put the land in condition so that it will give a good return in the way of crops. The land is not being improved to be sold but to be owned and farmed. Much of the improvements’ upon these lands had ibeen made with the idea of show and* to help sell the land, consequently much work and expense is necessary so that the investment can be made to give a return which is posible when the land is improved as it should be. Mr. Kuppers is anxious that the class of citizens in the community !be the very best obtainable. He believes that recitude and morality go along with progress, industry and prosperity. He is making a strong effort, assisted- by others, to secure a consolidated school, that the comipunity have the influence of a Sunday Sthool and church and that the environment be such that it will be a good place in which to live and to bring up a family. Many of the tenants secured this year are from the mountains of Kentucky. They are industrious and honest and the results of their efforts are very apparent in the present splendid condition of the crops they are attending. Many of these men have spent their summers in the Ohio onion fields. The Oliver drain hat been constructed well up to the Farms Co’s, lands and this will be of very great benefit. The dredge is how near the headquarter’s property. It will go on up to a distance of some four miles. The possibilities of this land is well illustrated by the success which F. H. Henley who owns twenty acres has 'had. Even with the handicap of insufficient drainage Mr. Henley has made as much on his twenty acres as many farmers have made upon a quarter section. This year he has a most promising crop of onions, he has out some potatoes and he has by careful tilling gotten his land in excellent condition. , As is usually the case with those who succeed, Mr. and Mrs. Henley are people of excellent character. Several of their children are college graduates and they have a son just completing a course at Purdue university. Mr. and Mrs. Henley are anxious to assist Mr. Kuppers in making that community the very best possible. They, like him/are working to better the community in every way. ' The Farms Company are standing back of Mr. Kuppers and ire furnishing everything necessary. Buildings are being improved. Farm machinery in the way of tractors and other implements are provided arid the help is flven good wages in cash each week. _ •/ | The whole proposition is a Very interesting one and will in the end be a very successful one. The efforts there if continued will result in making some of the best producing land to be found any where. Some of the experienced onion men now upon this land say it is the best onion land to be found in the country. With the improvements of the land will come, as always does, better citizenship. Mr. Kuppers has the firm support of his company as well aa the assistance of the good citizens of that community. His is a task worthy of the ambition of a real young American and is sure to result as all effort of earnest Americans result, in success. MONDAY LOCAL GRAIN MARKET Oats -- $1.04 Corn - Rye ,2 - SL#P jAmat —L $2.80