Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1907 — CROP CONDITIONS ELSEWHERE. [ARTICLE]

CROP CONDITIONS ELSEWHERE.

The writer was in Frankfort and Lafayette on business Tuesday afternoon, and all down through that section, it would appear, more rain has fallen than with ns, while crops are about as bsckward. Corn does not look as well as many fields we have seen sbont here. Wheat seems to have come ont considerably in the past few Weeks and is generally looking quite well in that seotion. A. J. Harmon returned Wednesday evening from a two weeks business trip through Illinois and lowa. He reports crop conditions through the sections whioh he passed about the same as here Oats are looking well everywhere; corn is generally a good stand bnt it is small for this time of ye#r; wheat is looking better than it did and a better crop will be harvested than was thought would be a month ago. Farm lands are advancing in price everywhere, he says, and at Gridley, 111., the other day ha saw a contraot closed for 160 acres near Gridley at $225 per acre, not an extra well improved faim either.