Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1907 — CAN YOU BEAT THIS? [ARTICLE]

CAN YOU BEAT THIS?

According to the Wolcott Enterprise, J, B. Owen of that place kept a record last week of the growth of a stalk of corn on his place. At 7 p. m., July 5 he drove a stake in the ground the height of the stalk—exactly two feet. Sunday morning, the 7th, at 7 a. m., he fodnd that it had grown 7 inches in the 36 hours. At 7 p, m., the same evening it had grown 10 inches, and Tuesday morning at 7 a. m., 84 hours from the time he first measured the stalk, it had grown exactly 16 inches. It was growing on very rich land, but with favorable weather one can almost see corn grow at this season of the year, and the story is not unreasonable.