Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1908 — AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT. [ARTICLE]

AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.

Henry Templeton raises some wonderful fields of corn on his Inad up in the north part of the county. Last year he had one field that harvested over one hundred bushels to the acre, .and that his a large per cent of the hundred and twentyfive dollar land in the south part of the county skinned to a frazzle. He is also quite an experimenter. This year he has just finished planting 35 acres of corn on new ground which was put in just half as wide apart as is usual in planting. When he finished planting he chained up the gate and gave instructions that not a team or cultivator go into the field until harvesting time comes when he declares that if no bad storm comes that field will easily yield over one hundred bushels of corn to the acre aid if frost should catch it before it ripens he will have a vast amount of fodder for his stock which is very near if not quite as valuabe to him as the matured corn would be. The great growth of corn he claims will keep down the weeds in good shape.— Morocco Courier.