Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — WHAT ABOUT THE MUCK LAND? [ARTICLE]

WHAT ABOUT THE MUCK LAND?

Early Frosts Demonstrate the Impractability of Planting Corn. Frost on September 12, 1916, and again on September 11, 1917. demonstrate beyond peradventure the impractability of planting corn on the low, jnuck land in Jasper county. For two consecutive years now the farmers have lost irreparably through damage to their corn on muck land by early frosts, and the situation is indeed discouraging to them. The present year has perhaps broken all recent records in the matter of frosts. On Friday night, June 15, a frost visited this county that was hard enough to kill large quantities of corn in the low lands, and in less than ninety days the first freeze of autumn came. This leads one to wonder just what is the best crop to plant on this kind of land, and experiences of the past few years demonstrate that wheat and oats are perhaps the most practical, with less danger from frosts. Wheat planted on muck land has yielded abundantly and one is free from the uncertainty of losing the crop.