Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — An Onion Grower [ARTICLE]

An Onion Grower

Dr. Turfler was wearing an unusually broad smile yesterday while here. A Napan nee onion expert had been in the doctor’s onion patch in Jasper county a few- days before and placed an, estimate on the prospective yield. He placed the best acre at 900 bushels; the next four acres at 800 bushels each and the rest of the field of about ten acres at around 500 bushels each. Quite a crop of scents isn’t it? His popcorn is outgrowing field corn two to one, and It looks like It was going more than a record breaker. Take a strip of ground 16 rods Jong and 10 rods wide and pile 900 bushels of onions on It and you’ll think it is some crop.—Monticello Journal.