Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1908 — THE OATS CROP. [ARTICLE]

THE OATS CROP.

The oats yield In Jasper county 1» variously reported from practically nothing at all to 40 bushels per acre. In the north townships there is generally very near nothing, whjle about Rensselaer and in West Jordan and Carpenter they are running from 16 to 40 bushels, fields yielding as high as the latter figure beii% most rare. Following are some reports made to us of the yields hereabquts, with newspaper clippings of yields elsewhere: Over in northwest Carpenter tp., the oats yield is averaging about 28 to 30 bushels to the acre. Some of the best yields reported there, machine measure, are Charles Welsh, 6Q acres, 36 bushels; Frank J. Babcock, 50 acres, 33 bushels," Frank Roberts, 75 acres, 25 bushels. Some run a little under this. The average in west Carpenter is probably the --best in the entire county, and appears to be better *than reported almost anywhere else. Trustee Geo. L. Parks of Milroy tp., tells us that oats'in his township are the poorest he ever saw raised there. He only cut a small part of his 40 acres —anfy he had taken particular pains in putting them in—and he did not get his seed back on those cut. Fred May threshed 30 acres that averaged 18 bushels to the acre. Sam Ravenscraft, in east Carpenter, got an average of 18 bushels off of 25 acres. Some in east Carpenter are running better than this, however, the average probably about 20 to 25 bushels. Mr. Parks had about 300 bushels of good wheat, how--ever, and says his corn is good. He thinks farmers in this section 'Should sow more wheat, and thinks one year with another it pays twice as well as oats. Many farmers over in Carpenter are making preparations to sow a patch of wheat this fall, and Mr. Parks has already sold a part of his crop for seed and thinks he w r ill have demand for all of it for seed purposes.

Dan Daley threshed his oats the first of the week. They averaged about 40 bushels to the acre.—Earl Park Gazette. New oats are coming in at the elevators this week. They are yielding from 15 to 30 bushels to the acre and test from 20 to 27 lbs. to the bushel.—Chalmers Ledger. Wheat threshing is in full blast. There is a good average crop of the cereal and the quality is fine. Oats are but a poor crop. Present indications point to a bumper corn crop. —Medaryville Advertiser. Threshing is now under way and some of the fields are turning out very fair considering the lateness of the spring season. F.’*’ A. Camblin reports one field of oats 40 acres in extent which averaged 31 bushels to the acre.—Morocco Courier. Threshing commenced in earnest this week. Some of the yields are as follows: Joe Zeigler, 35 bushels, Chris Pample, 25 bushels, Ralph

Brooks, 30 bushels, Ed Grobe, 26 bushels. It is said the oats is bushels. It is said the corn is weighing about 28 pounds to the bushel. The quality is better than it was last year and indications are that the average yield will be about thirty bushels to the acre.—Fowler Republican. • The first job of oats threshing in this vicinity was finished for W’m. McMillen, Tuesday. Contrary to predictions and expectations the oats made 31 bushels to the acre. From the looks of the field it compared favorably with the general run of oats in this section. The second field of oats threshed here was for George Allis, and they made 33 bushels to the acre. A field over near Kentland threshed out 39 bushels to the acre.—Brook Reporter. A few fields of oats have been threshed and the results have been as various as previous indications promised. From Wellington are reports of 40 bushels to the acre and over, but the general average will be much below that. In this vicinity there has been threshing on the Secrest farm, and the McCracken farm. Also at Wein rank’s and Oltmann’s. Yeild has been from eight bushels up to 26, and the Oltmann piece 40. Scattering reports from over the county Indicate about the same state of affairs with some neighborhoods far in advance of others. The quality is generally good and the weight fair, but not up to 32 pounds in this vicinity. Price is 40 cents. The hot weather is favorable to corn 'except in neighborhoods where there is a lack of rainfall. The rain this year has run much in spots and while one neighborhood may have plenty of moisture another only a mile or so away is suffering severely from drougth.—Watseka (Ill.) Republican. Oats threshing has started, but has progressed hardly sufficient to make an average estimate on the yield. Lewis Kenoyer is the only one who had finished threshing oats in this township at the time of this writing and he received 22 bushels, testing 27 pounds to the bushel.

Some farmers are still placing estimates oh the oats yield as low as 15 bushels to the acre, but very few fields will probably fall that low. Some place their estimates as high as ,35 bushels, and a few fields may possibly reach that figure. There is a unanimity of opinion that the quality is good and will grade well. A few inquiries concerning the yield of wheat, however, shows good results. William Beerling of west Jefferson reports 35 bushels to the acre. William Schaefer, On the George Brldgeman farm, had out twenty acres that yielded 30% bushels to the acre. John Sykes reports 24% bushels, Alva Montgomery 27%, George Herriman 25, William Confer 24, and there are a few remaining fields to be threshed.— Kentland Enterprise.