Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1907 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

•• ■ 4/* I THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR •«M **¥HM, Daniel Webster Flour. 1 'fT’ ' *' Read what we have to say next week. Th© “TWO BIG STORES.”

The Place to Get a Home y Hartline, Wash. August 2q, IQO7. Mr. B. F. Ferguson, y ' Rensselaer, Ind. Dear Brother:— l received your letter yesterday, was glad to you were all well and prospering as well as of old. It is discouraging in all lines of business when the farmers fail in a crop, for he is the main producer as well as the greatest consumer. I feel for my old Jasper county farmer friends in having a crop less than expenses, for have not I been through the mill back there? I should say yes, but they have the grit and get along some way, while some of them profit by it. We have nothing to complain of out here; we have a fine crop of everything that was planted. The season was fine; it rained just when the crops needed it and not a drop too much. It rained last’night all night; we did not need it in particular yet it did not hurt anything; it lays all the dust and makes the ground so we can commence fall plowing early. The harvest here is about two-thirds done, it will be pbout the first week in September before it is all finished. Tfij-eshing has commenced; the wheat is going from twenty to forty bushels to the acre, the difference is in the fall and summer plowing and the farming of the ground. We have three days heading yet, then we will be done. We have fifty-two ricks of wheat, each rick fifty feet long, so you see we have some wheat. Such ricks as ours where they are threshing are making 200 bushels to the rick. We will not have ours threshed for a couple of weeks yet. Wheat is worth 70 cents per* bushel. Harvest hands here get $3.00 a day; we begin work at five a. m. and quit at seVen p. m.; work every day, no lay off for rain. When it rains you can go to work in an hour after it quits. It seldom ever rains in harvest time. There are four or fiye combined harvesters running in sight of our place and nine header outfits, each outfit will cut about 30 acres apiece; about 400 acres are cut each day in sight of 11s. It takes seven men to run a header outfit properly. I will name them so you wiif know the places if you hear men call them when you are in a wheat country: First the header puncher, that is the man who drives the header; one stacker, three box drivers, one spike pitcher, one loader. Tell grandpa we have the finest potatoes I ever raised" and lots of them, and the least ’ work I ever put on potatoes; not a bug of any kind about them, one man near us has twenty acres of potatoes out, and they are fine. He just plowed the ground for summer fallow for oats next year in June, and just dropped the potatoes in every third furrow as he plowed, and plowed them under; when he got time he harrowed the twenty acres over and that is all, and they are as nice and fine a crop as a man would want to see. I have about one acre that I did the same way and they are splendid. I think I will treat about twenty or thirty acres that way next year. The potatoes don’t hurt the ground any, you can go right on and sow the same ground Jn winter oj* spring wheat just the same. f As to the land here I can tell a man just as much about it and what it will do under certain conditions as any man out here. I have made a thorough study of conditions, of different lands and crops, and 1 believe if this land is* properly handled it will produce forty bushels of wheat and seventy-five bushels of oats one year with another. The man across the road from our place cut and threshed with a combined harvester and thresher seventy bushels of oats per acre If anyone don’t believe this just come over and we will crawl under the wire fence and count the two-bushel sacks laying on the ground in win-rows where the machine dumped them, the owner says that if he had put the oats in the way he ought to and sowed a little more to the acre he could have had a hundred bushel to the acre as well as not. No one man ought to farm more than one section, 400 acres in spring and 200 in winter wheat. , Yours Truly v John T. Sayler. To the Public:— We desire to call your attention to thp above statements and to further state that if you have any desire or intention of making a change of your place of living, you certainly can make no mistake in going to the Great State of Washington. We would cordially invite you to come and see us; we will take pleasure in showing you our prices and explaining to you further about this wonderful country. Y ours Respectfully, Ferguson & Ferguson, Rensselaer, Indiana.