Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1912 — Sand Knobs Yielding $8O Per Acre Crop About Fair Oaks. [ARTICLE]

Sand Knobs Yielding $8O Per Acre Crop About Fair Oaks.

Claude Keller of Fair Oaks and Mliss Fay MichaeUs of Kankakee, 111., were married at St. Joe, Mich., on Monday of last week. The groom is an employe of the Michigan Central road, and the bride is the laughter of a restaurant keeper ini Kankakee. On account of the youth’fulnese of the bride they were refused a license in Hammond, so they went on to St. Joe. F. E. Husted and Daniel Wood of Fair Oaks were in the city Saturday. Mr. Mood used to be quite a melon grower, but did not market any this year, although he raised several wagon loads. Mr. Bozell, who had out fifteen acres on some land of A. D. Washburn’s near Fair Oaks, has sold about $1,200 worth of melons this year. As Mr. Washburn gave him the use of the land free if he would clear the brush off it, he was at very little expense and the SBO per acre, which this crop brought him, was practically all net. He has shipped twelve carloads, eight of which he sold to Indianapolis buyers on track at Fair Oaks at SIOO per car. One car load was also sold at Goodland which netted him S9O. The size and quality of the melons grown by Mr. Bozell were extra good, and the Indianapolis parties who bought eight carloads of them, it is said, have offered him special inducements to put out forty acres next year. Mr. Bozell is and old melon grower and thoroughly understands the business. The land on . which these melons were grown is sand knobs and is good for nothing else. It would not sell for $5 per acre.