Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1908 — CLOVER A GOOD CROP. [ARTICLE]

CLOVER A GOOD CROP.

The clover crop has been harvested and the threshing is about completed. The fields north of town have yielded much more seed than those on the south. For Instance, James Walter threshed 45 bushels oil of 18' acres. Jim lives north of town. O. K. Ritchey threshed 105% bushels off of 70 acres, while Frank Welsh thrashed 24 bushels off of 18 acres. They both live south of town. As these men are all pretty democratically Inclined, we do not think Nature favored any of them on the score of politics, but there is another element to be consindered here, and that is Mr. Bumblebee. It is just possible that he has had a better chance to multiply and replenish the earth on the high rolling l ground to the north, than on the level ground to the south, and as Nature has so constructed clover that It cannot produce after its kind without the assistance of Mr. Bumblebee, this may account for the great discrepancy in the yield of these localities.