Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1911 — PULASKI'S PEPPERMINT CROP. [ARTICLE]

PULASKI'S PEPPERMINT CROP.

A peppermint dealer was here Tuesday buying the oil from the crop raised in Pulaski county last season. 1 The results from the crop amounted ■; to about 1,700 pounds in the county, some 1,500 pounds of which comes ; from the Thompson and Dr. Cushing 'farms northwest of town, and about • 200 from the Bruce lake vicinity. The oil is worth $2 a pound this year, which is more than it has been for some time. Last year the price was $1.45. The dry spell last summer was hard on the peppermint, and the crop Was smaller than it would have Iteen had the season been better. A scarcity all over the country doubtless causes the goo-1 price. But this year’s results hereabout, together with the results of former years, show that it is a mighty good cop to handle. The test of hemp made in this county the last year does not seem to have been very satisfactory to the Chicago company that rented the ground for the tests, as none of It was cut at all. Peppermint raising has passed the experimental stage, however, and will doubtless become more general in a few years.—Pulaski County Democrat.