Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1914 — LETTERS FROM OUR READERS [ARTICLE]

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

A. M. Clark Writes of the Crops in Kansas. Gardner, Kan., Aug. 23, 1914. From Windy Kansas to The Democrat and My Friends: As 1 see you have solne reports of crops in different localities and some of them are friends of mine, or were one day, will write something of our crops. We had a good wheat and oats crop. I had 75 acres of wheat and threshed 2,250 bushels, or an average of 30 bushels per acre, and 20 acres oats that made 1,507 bushels, or an average of a little over 75 bushels per acre. I helped thresh three weeks and didn’t thresh any wheat that made less than 26 bushels, and threshed one 20 acre field that made 4 6 bushels per acre, and no oats that made less than 65 bushels per acre. We had a fine prospect for a bumper corn crop up till the first of July. It has been a little too dry since that, but my corh will make 4 0 bushels or better. I am done plowing for wheat but will not sow for another month. We are well and enjoying ourselves out west. Give my regards to my old friends and neighbors.—A. M. Clark.