Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1912 — Seven Hundred Acres of Peas. [ARTICLE]

Seven Hundred Acres of Peas.

Chas. J. Fell, s.on of county treasurer, A. A. Fell, who moved 'rom Carpenter tp. recently to a big sheep ranch owned by Mrs. Fell’s father at Monte Vista, Colo., writes his father under recent date that they are putting out this year 700 acres of peas for pasture for the sheep. The peas are drilled .n, and all the plowing, drilling, etc., is done with engines for motive power. They had about 80 acres drilled in when he wrote. An entire carload of peas are being used for seed.