Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1912 — Fine Field of Alfalfa at College Farm. [ARTICLE]

Fine Field of Alfalfa at College Farm.

Among the few more fields put out to alfalfa in Jasper county this spring, the St. Joseph’s College farm has a 10-acre field on the east side of the range line roal that is a splendid stand and is probably the best field of alfalfa in the county. If alfalfa growing proves the success here that many think it will, it will be but a few years until the crop is grown extensively in every section of the county where there is land adapted to its growth. So far it has not been tried to any great extent, Charlie Pullins of Barkley tp., being one of the pioneers in experimenting with growing this valuable grass crop, and he has been very successful. This season he put out more of it, and several others have started fields.

The college field, lying as it does on the most traveled highway in the county, and bidding fair to rival any fields in the alfalfa growing sections of other states, is bound to attract much attention and induce many farmers to try raising the crop themselves.