Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1916 — Some Good Wheat This Year In Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

Some Good Wheat This Year In Jasper County.

There are several fields of very good wheat in Jasper county this year, but about the best we have seen any place and in several hundred miles travel through differerj sections of the state is on the J. M. Wasson farm southeast of Rensselaer. There is 70 acres of this wheat and it is very fine indeed. They also have 25 acres of splendid rye on this farm. In Barkley tp, there is some good wheat. On the John English farm and on the J. T. Culp farm are two excellent fields. Out just southwest of town on the J. J. Lawler land, Joe Nagel has a fine large field of wheat, and right across the road south of this field is the best looking oats we have seen any" place this year. They are of good height and quite free of weeds. Most of the oats fields are terribly weedy, and dock, mustard and other noxious weeds are more in evidence icf some cases than the oats themselves. But most of the wheat in the county this yeas looks much better than anticipated, and it is probable that the yiqld will also be quite good. It is to be regretted that more attention is not given to the growing of wheat in Jasper county as it is a much better paying crop than oats and requires little or no more labor than the latter. It is about as sure a crop, too, as oats and with an average season will pay almost twice as large returns. Of course, the weather conditions i last fall, when it was too wet, and j the year before when it was too dry

at wheat Sowing time, resulted in a much smaller acreage being put out than usual perhaps. Especially was this true of last year, but those who are fortunate enough to have put in a field of wheat last fall will get much better returns from it than they will from their oats. The Democrat believes that the farmers of Jasper county should give more attention to wheat growing and thus have a more diversified line of crops. It is not probable that all will fail, and if one has out a good sized acreage of wheat, and it does well, he need not worry so much as the farmer who depends on corn or oats, or both.