Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1908 — NEW OATS COMING IN. [ARTICLE]

NEW OATS COMING IN.

First Field Threshed Yields 30 Bushels and Tests 29 to 30 Pounds. The first new oats marketed in Rensselaer this year werehauled to the Babcock & Hopkins elevator Thursday. They were what is called the “Fourth of July” oats and were raised Wm. Murray on the 16* acres owned by Bert Brenner, just south of the corporation pt Rensselaer. The sixteen acres averaged 30 bushels to the acre and tested 29 to 30 pounds to the bushel, against 18 to 20 pounds, the test of last year’s oats. \ There will be several at threshing next week. The quality 'of the oats is good but the yield is not likely to average over 20 to 25 bushels to the acre.