Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1917 — $103.50 AN ACRE FOR WHEAT [ARTICLE]

$103.50 AN ACRE FOR WHEAT

Is tiie Remarkable Figure Reach by Newton Township Land. What is perhaps a new record on returns from crops in Jasper county is reported from the Everett Halstead ranch in Newton township, where a few acres of wheat raised there this year brought the gross return of $103.50 an acre. The land was farmed by William Walter, and the wheat yielded forty-six bushels to the acre. The actual market value of the land is not much more than this year’s crop sold for. The wheat from this particular tract of land was of excellent quality and was sold with 2,000 bushels more to Edwin Harris at Mt. Ayr for $2.25 per bushel. There was quite a demand in the vicinity for some of this wheat for seed and Mr. Harris sold all of it to the farmers there for that purpose for the same price he paid for it. Randolph Wright, who also farms a part of the Halstead land, had twenty-five acres of oats that yieldecj seventy-six bushels to the acre.