Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1911 — THE BEST FIELD OF CORN. [ARTICLE]

THE BEST FIELD OF CORN.

The best field of corn we have seen this season—or it was the best, rather, until the hail cut it up badly last Tuesday—is that of Sam Lowery’s, on the Wm. P. Baker farm north of Rensselaer. It is very even and is the farthest advanced of any corn we have seen any place, the stalks having large heavy ears already formed on them. A Benton county gentleman whom we were with when passing this field a few days ago, said he had seen nothing so far advanced in his own county, always noted for its fine corn. Before the hail cut the leaves up so badly Mr. Lowery estimated it would better than 75 bushels to the acre. The. hail made ribbons of the leaves and the yield will no doubt be cut down from onethird to one-half by reason thereof.