Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1911 — BIG KRAUT PACK. [ARTICLE]

BIG KRAUT PACK.

Demotte Factory Closed With 1,500 Ton Run. The Demotte Kraut factory closed the seasons run Wednesday with a pack of almost 1,500 tons, and the work of barreling and shipping out the 38 tanks of about 5,000 pounds each of the sliced cabbage will continue for several weeks. While 1-4 of a cent a pound — the factory paid $4.50 per ton to the growers—may seem an awful low price to town people, who have to pay two to three cents per pound for head cabbage, it is said the business is generally quite profitable for the grower, and as that section of the county is well adapted to the growing of vegetables and garden truck of all kinds, it is to hoped the business will increase until northern Jasper is as well known over the country as a truck farming section as is Kalmazoo for its great celer yindustry.