Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1906 — PEPPERMINT GROWING IN JASPER [ARTICLE]

PEPPERMINT GROWING IN JASPER

Eli Stutzman and a Mr. Miller of west of Surrey, had in about a quarter of an acre of peppermint this year as an experiment. They got the plants fro/n an Amishman up in Lagrange county, where the peppermint industry is assuming quite extensive proportions, This man came down last week and distilled the mint for them, and from their little patch they distilled 17 pounds of oil, worth at present prices $2.70 per pound. The Lagrange man is quite a largegrower of mint and said that just before coming down here he sold this year’s crop of 4000 pounds of oil, which, at $2.70 per pound, would amount to SIO,BOO. He thought the mint would do well here, we are told, and it is understood that Messrs. Stutzman and Miller will plant a larger acreage next year It would seem that some of the muck ground in this county would be well adapted to the growth of mint, and the industry is said to be a very remunerative one. It wonld pay some of our farmers to investigate the matter.