Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1911 — UP-TO-DATE FARMING. [ARTICLE]

UP-TO-DATE FARMING.

S. T. Comer & Son of Union tp., will have a new silo erected by the side of their cattle barn this season. By the way, the Comers have everything quite handy at their farm, and with up-to-date facilities for handling and feeding stock, a gasoline engine to pump the water, run the cream separator and washing machine, etc., they are fixed to take things quite easy. ' They are now feeding ground feed to their stock and have to haul it away to get it ground. They expect, however, to buy a grinder of, their

own and save the time and labor now necessary to haul the grain to mill. Until a few days ago they had one of the finest patches of potatoes in the county, but a swarm of those long striped bugs that halve been playing havoc swooped down on the field and now the vines look as though they had been run through a threshing machine.