Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1903 — HAS THE WESTERN FEVER. [ARTICLE]

HAS THE WESTERN FEVER.

Jasper Kenton returned Saturday from a three weeks visit with his brother William Kenton and sons near Mitchell, So. Dak. He was much taken up with the country thereabouts snd will probably dispose of his half-sec-tion farm in Marion township and purchase a large body of land there. The Kenton’s there are well pleased with the country and their investment. This year they raised 2,700 bushels of wheat, 3,200 bushels of oats, 500 bushels of speltz (a grain that makes excellent hog feed, it is said) and have 130 acres of corn that they think will yield 40 to 45 bushels per acre. Crops were good there this season. Mr. Kenton also visited Simon Rowen, Sylvester Greenfield and Geo. R. Keever, near St. Lawrence and Burdette, Hand county, some 75 miles from where his brother William resides, they making the trip there in one day by team. These people, also former Jasper county residents, were well pleased with their new home, and all are doing well, Mr. Keever is living on a rented farm this year and raised 570 bushels of wheat, also several hundred bushels of oats, barley, etc., and has some 30 or 40 acres of corn. Wheat is worth 68 cents per bushel there at this time, and oats 28 cents.