Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1912 — Continued Rains Damage Oats In Shock. [ARTICLE]

Continued Rains Damage Oats In Shock.

This season reminds one of that of about eighteen years ago, when so much rain came after oats cutting that threshing was badly interfered with and the price received for the badly colored grain was the lowest ever known, some selling as low as nine or ten cents per bushel. Then as now, we had a big oats crop, perhaps the largest of any season up to this year. Then Grover Cleveland was president, and the democrats were charged with the bad weather that ruined the oats and made the price so low. Some republican editors are still harping about the low prices of oats of that season as being wholly due to the \yicked democrats being in pow^r.