Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1906 — TOO MUCH RAIN FOR HUSKING. [ARTICLE]

TOO MUCH RAIN FOR HUSKING.

Not for many years have the farmers of Jasper county had so hard work in hnsking their corn as this year. The hard winds blowed it down badly, and then came the heavy rains, making the ground very soft, and leaving ponds of water here and there in the fields. Wearing rubber boots, and in many oases having two teams to the wagon to pull it through the soft mud, the farmer has laboriously picked the stalks out of the mud and water and pulled the watersoaked husks from the ears, until now most of them have completed one of the hardest tasks they ever undertook.