Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1905 — NEW OATS ARE MOVING. [ARTICLE]

NEW OATS ARE MOVING.

Both Early and Late Varieties Now x Being Hauled to Market /The first load of new oats hauled to tbe Babcock <fc Hopkins elevator were brought in Tuesday by Horatio Ropp, and were raised by Bud Lewis on the the R. B. Harris farm in Barkley tp., near Vai ma. These oats were of the early variety and were not as good as the later oats which have since been hauled to market. The price started at 27 cents per bushel, against 30 cents last year, but the market has since dropped a couple of cents and may go still lower.)/ The late oats are of the best quality this year and are testing from tbe machine at 32 to 34 pounds to tbe bushel, which is better than last year. While several of the north townships and the Gifford district will have a very light crop, yet it is thought the county over there will be double tbe oats there was last year. The price last year advanced a cent the second week and remain-* ed at 31 cents until the latter part of August, when it dropped to 29 cents, then to 28, and the middle of October dropped another cent and remained at 27 cents until early November, when it advanced to 28 cents again and remained at that figure practically until the end of the year. It is interesting to note that the first oats were marketed last year on the same day of the month as this year — July 25—and came from the Fred Waymire farm inßarkley tp. Two years ago they came in July 27. . Some of tbe individual yields that have been brought to our notice are as follows: A. Gangloff, east of town, 50 bushels. Floyd Robinson, east of town 50 bushels. Henry Kolhoff, south of town, 56 bushels. Bud Lewis, Barkley tp., (early oats) 40 bushels.