Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1908 — THIS IN “YORK STATE,” TOO [ARTICLE]

THIS IN “YORK STATE,” TOO

M. A. Case, an Ontario, (N. Y.) county farmer, attributes his large yield of corn this fall to the fact that a flock of twenty pheasants were kept busy devouring wire worms and cut worms. His harvest was 545 bushels from four acres. He thinks the birds ought to be protected from hunters.—New York State Paper. This yield beats anything heard of in the great corn belt of Indiana or Illinois, where farm land is valued as high as S2OO per acre in some localities. When one takes into consideration the fact that farm lands in New York state can be bought at from $5 to S4O per acre, with good improvements in many instances, owing to the yonger generation having emigrated to the great west, and the further fact that a small grained variety of corn is grown there, this yield is something wonderful, if correctly reported.