Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1916 — Pickle Crop Bringing As High As $300 Per Acre. [ARTICLE]

Pickle Crop Bringing As High As $300 Per Acre.

Some 300 acres of pickles were put out on the Springer lands in Walker tp. and it was the intention to put oat several hundred acres of other crops, but scarcity of help prevented of doing this. The pickles are doing mighty fine and representatives from the Squire Dingee Pickle Co., who saw the fields, state that they are the finest they ever saw. It is said that some of this land will bring in returns this year of $l5O per acre. Mr. Keeney, superintendent for the present owners of the .and, says that they are having difficulty in securing sufficient help to pick the crop, because everybody has a job this year who wants one, and he is advertising elsewhere in The Democrat for pickers.