Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1917 — CORN IS LOOKING PROMISING [ARTICLE]

CORN IS LOOKING PROMISING

With Favorable Weather Crop Will Yet Turn Out Good, In a sixty-mile drive Sunday afternoon up through Barkley township, Newland; Gifford, Wheatfield, Kersey, . Demotte and Kniman, we saw only occasional small fields of corn on muck ground that was damaged by Friday night’s freeze. Taken as a whole, on the entire trip, we do not believe that we ever saw corn as good a “stand” and as clean as it now is. ' We were surprised to see that practically every corn field had been plowed over,»- and only once in a great while did we see one that had been too wet to plow. • Corn is looking much better down through the central part of the county than up about Wheatfield and through the northern section. Oats and rye are- also considerably better down this way than . in. the northern part of the county, while wheat is equally as good. We are told that the wheat in the north part of the county which wintered well and came out looking fine in the spring, was badly damaged by the dry weather. Evidently the recent cold, wet weather has affected crops more up that way than down here, as they are not looking nearly so well as with us. The large onion fields in about Newland are looking quite well, except that some of them are weedy. They have not had enough rain there as yet to do any damage, however, and with a continued favorable season an enormous crop will be raised. Over in south and southwest of Rensselaer -fc-here the land is not very well drained some of the fields have been too wet to get into with teams until this week, and corn in that vicinity is not looking so well, many of the fields being quite weedy.