Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1910 — HEMP GROWING IN PORTER. [ARTICLE]

HEMP GROWING IN PORTER.

P. H. Halligan was in Kouts Sunday, and while there he, with his brother-in-law, J. J. Overmeyer, drove out south of the city some distance and inspected a crop of harvested hemp that had been grown there last summer. Mr. Halligan states , that the manner of curling the stuff is rather unique. The grain is cut and is left to rot. This releases the fiber, which is the part wanted. A number of railroad officials intend to visit the place soon, when the hemp is threshed. If this venture proves a success, nd doubt it will be extensively grown in this part of Indiana.—Hebron News.