Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1915 — Bounteous Harvest Prospects Ruined. [ARTICLE]

Bounteous Harvest Prospects Ruined.

John P. Ryan and daughters, Alice and Frances, and son, Edward, were down from Gillam tp., Thursday forenoon in their auto. Misses Catherine and Rose Liters accompanied them home for a week’s visit. Mr. Ryan stated that he had never seen such crops in Jasper county in his forty years' experience in farming here, as this year but the continued rains has done so much damage that it is pronab e we will not save as much as weraised last year. He said that on Lit way down Thursday he saw wheat shocks sta* ding in water a foot or more in depth and bundles of wheat that had not yet been shocked, lying in water, while the wheat that had not been cut was almost as flat as though it had been run over by a land roller. Oats were also down badly in many places and ponds of water covered parts of many fields of corn. Mr. Ryan said that he believed that the wheat would have averaged 40 bushels to the acre in Jasper county this year and the oats nearly 75 bushels, could it all have been saved. It is indeed too bad after raising such splendid crops to have them nearly ruined in one short week’s time.

The weather has been such, too, that the farmers could not put up their hay, and a great deal of it has been ruined, also.