Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1905 — SHRUNK TWENTX-SIX BUSHELS. [ARTICLE]

SHRUNK TWENTX-SIX BUSHELS.

One of the most resourceful telegraph liars we have heard of lately has for some time been burdening the columns of an Indianapolis paper, under a Morocco date line. Here is one of his late effusions and we give it for what it is worth: William Smith, a farmer of this vicinity, made a test of the shrinkage of corn with the following result: He put 130 bushels, by weight, of corn of good quality in a crib eight feet above the ground, well protected against the ravages of rats and other harm. On July 1, nine months from the time he weighed it in, he weighed it out again and had 104 bushels, a loss of twenty.six bushels. The The corn, when put in the crib, was dry enough to shell readily.