Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1916 — Sow More Wheat and Re More Prosperous. [ARTICLE]

Sow More Wheat and Re More Prosperous.

Jasper county farmers occasionally have almost a failure in their wheat crop, but as a rule we raise as good wheat and as much to the acre as almost any place in the state. And it is a good, paying crop, too. Wheat is bound to be up around the dollar mark at least next year, and every farmer in Jasper county who has ground suitable should put out good acreages of wheat this fall and not depend almost entirely on corn and oats. Oats are very seldom a moneymaking .crop in this section of the country and were it not for its benefit to the ground in rotating with com it would be better for the farmers not to attempt to raise any oats for the market at all. But wheat is a crop that pays well, can ordinarily be put in when other work is not rushing on the farm and gives the farmer more time in the spring for preparing his corn ground. If winter kills wheat the ground is not lost as it can be planted to corn. It is hoped that from five to 10 times the acreage of wheat will be put out this fall that was sown last year.