Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — A "Strong” Crop Being Grown in Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

A "Strong” Crop Being Grown in Jasper County.

Newland will soon become the most noted onion and potato grow inc section in Indiana, if the present developement along these lines continues. Ed Oliver, the present I ‘Mayor of Newland,” has out 85 acres of onions and 65 acres of potatoes all of which is looking fine and gives promise of an abundant I yield. He also has out about 4 ! acres of cabbage. That section of the county is peculiarly adapted to the growing of all kinds of vegetables and, no doubt, in a few years . will be noted all over the country and an enormous influx of truck farmers will result. The new cold storage warehouse to be erected there this season will ( soon be commenced. The building i will be 56x160 feet in dimensions I with cement floor and foundations, and 14 foot pokts. It will hold 50,000 bushels of onions and potatoes, and will enable growers to hold the crops until mid-winter or early in the spring when prices are usually much better than in the fall. With the proximity of Chicago and the markets of the great manufacturing industries in the Calumet region only a short distance north, there is no reason why the garden lands in northern Jasper should not be developed and made to blossom a- the: rose as the busy gardeners till the the soil and furnish a large portion of the vegetables consumed in the Windy City and its environs. '