Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1916 — Poorer Corn Other Places Than in Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

Poorer Corn Other Places Than in Jasper County.

The writer took an automobile trip Sunday afternoon to Fiancesville, Pulaski, Buffalo and thence home via Monon, -and saw very little decent looking corn after'leaving Jasper county. Many fields of the larger corn seemed to have been damaged quite a good deal already

from the hot, dry weather, and over east of Francesville, near the big Ketman ditch, quite a number of fields of corn seemed to have been cut to pieces from hail. We saw thousands of acre 3 of corn that will never make anything. In fact, will never get big enough for it to form ears. The best corn seen any place on the trip, at least that being farthest advanced and having the largest ears, wa? immediately east of the Monon tracks at Pleasant Ridge, on the old McDonald farm. Oats and wheat in the seetion of Country we passed through were also quite poor.