Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1916 — Much Ground Yet to Be Planted in Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

Much Ground Yet to Be Planted in Jasper County.

In a 90-mile automobile trip last Sunday through some of the finest farming country in the state and the banner corn section of Americd — from Rensselaer to Remington, Goodland, Kentland, Fowler and thence home via Lochiel, Wadena, Goodland and Remington—the most backward section seen any place on the entire trip was that between Rensselaer arid Remington, where the rains seem to have been more excessive than elsewhere and there were hundreds of acres of ground still to be planted in corn, and quite a little yet to be plowed. From Remington on west to Kentland, and especially in about Kentland and south to Earl Park, corn was all planted and looking quite well, most of the fields having been cultivated once over, and they were generally free from weeds. Between Earl Park and Fowler an occasional field looked very weedy, where it had been too wet to cultivate, and quite a number of such fields were also seen between Fowler and Goodland. A few days of nice drying weather like we had Sunday, Monday and yesterday, however, will enable the farmers to cultivate such fields and with a few weeks of good, warm weather corn ■will make a wonderful growth. Generally it seemed to be a very good “stand.” Oats were not looking very well. They were plenty high enough for this season of the year for most part, but there were spots in practically all of the fields that looked too yellow, caused, no doubt, by the water standing too long on the ground. In fact, we saw scarcely a field of oats that was of good color, all showing the effects of the past few weeks of excessive rains. Some of the fields yet unplanted between Rensselaer and Remington will be too wet to do anything with the remainder of this week, even though we have the best of weather, and next week will make it quite late for planting corn, although such planting might be utilized for ensilage should it not mature before frost comes. But everything depends on the season from now -on whether we get a good yield from the late planted corn. With favorable weather corn makes a wonderful growth in a very short time, and should frost hold off until late, the late planted corn ma£ prove better than that planted before the rains.