Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1912 — Hoosiers All Prospering About Mitchell, So. Dakota. [ARTICLE]

Hoosiers All Prospering About Mitchell, So. Dakota.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hoyes and the latter’s mother, Mrs. Mark Hemphill, returned Tuesday afternoon from a two weeks visit with the Kentons and Zards and other Hoosiers now living near Mitchell, So. Dak. Jack thinks it is a fine country there and says they have fine crops there this year, having had plenty of rain this season. He saw practicalll all the many Hoosiers there and they had a very pleasant visit. AM those who bought farms there about the time the Kentons and Zard boys went to Mitchell have seen their lands advance in value to double the price paid, and they have done well at farming and are well satisfied with the change made. Jack says that the well located land there is now up to about SIOO per acre. John Knowlton, who recently sold his 80 acre farm north of Rensselaer to Frank Alter at $l3O per acre and bought a 160 acre farm near Mitchell some two weeks ago at SB9 per acre, has been offered SIOO per acre for same. Of the crops raised by the Kentons and Zards this year Mason Kenton had 180 acres of wheat that yielded 4,040 bushels; Kenton Bros. 400 acres, 6,500 bushels; Charlie Zard, 190 acres, 3,400 bushels; Fritz Zard, 120 acres, 1,950 bushels; Walter Zard (a son of Fritz’s) 70 acres, 1,009 bushels; and Sam Parker, 200 acres, 4,449 bushels. Oats yielded from 40 to 55 busnels per acre, and they have a good corn crop. A sample of the corn on Charlie Zard’s and Sam Parker's farms was brought back by Mr. Hoyes and is now on exhibition at Long’s drug store. Sam Parker has eighty acres of wild hay that is averaging about two tons to the acre. Sam has just started fattening 46 head of cattle for the market, and the Kenton Bros, who have over 100 head, are feeding some 60 head now. They also have lots of hogs. Jasper Kenton, who sold out near Mitehell a couple of years ago and doubled his money on the large farm he had there, moved to Kansas, it wilt be remembered. He has bought 800 acres In Canada now. There was a frost Monday morning at Mitchell, but Jack says it did no damage, It was reported. He says the crops appear good all along the way there, and in coming back he saw lots of com in lowa that was dry enough to cut up. There is a great deal of wheat and oats stacked up, and some shock grain, yet to .thresh in lowa and South Dakota.