Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1914 — Sony “Ose” Didn't Begin Threshing Earlier. [ARTICLE]

Sony “Ose” Didn't Begin Threshing Earlier.

O. K. Ritchey of south of town, phoned The Democrat Monda taat he was going to begin threshing that day and that we “would know the jest.” It always rains when O. K. starts to thresh. This mle has fai’ed but three or four times in th'- past fifty years, and sure enough we got rain here and all around us Monday, quite a nice little shower falling soon after noon and another fine rain about 4:30. In fact it was showery all around us all day, and now that ♦he ice has been broken it is possible that we will be praying for it to stop ere long, for it can rai t on the slightest provocation in this section when it once gets started. Over one inch of rain fell here Mbnday afternoon. This rain and that of Sunday broke the drought of the past two months, and with the prospect of more rain to come, all nature will soon be smiling again. It came too late, however, to help some fields of corn, on the sand and clay ground, and all it is fit for is fodder, and some of it not very good for that. We saw' one field of corn Sunday over southeast of Lee that had been cut apd shocked. The rain will help the pastures, which have been barren for the past month or more and have made it necessary for the farmers to feed their stock the same-as they would in winter, it will also enable the farmers to plow’ for wheat, of which there will be a large acreage put out in Jasper county this, fall if the weather conditions are favorable. Wheat is one of the very best Paying crops we can raise, and the foreign war is sure to make it an extra good price next season.