Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1917 — OPINION ON CORN DIFFERS [ARTICLE]

OPINION ON CORN DIFFERS

Some Farmers Think Crop Has Been Damaged Very Little. In Wednesday’s Democrat w# published the opinion of a wellknown farmer regarding the corn situation, who gave it as his belief that the crop was materially damaged. This view is also taken by a great many other farmers, but there are also those who thinly there is yet a good prospect for a bumper corn crop. The ideal weather the past week or ten days. Is doing wonders for the corn and if it just keeps up for a week or two, there will no doubt be a bumper yield. Many fields appear as if the frost had got in its work but some who have made a careful examination say the stalks and ears are not injured, only in the very low spots and muck lands. Most of the farmers take an optimistic view of the situation and predict a good yield. It is hard to get a line on the corn situation because of the great variance of opinion among the farmers, but we are inclined to give more weight to those who predict a good yield. For instance, just before oats cutting we were told that the yield of oats would be poor by some of our experienjM farmers, and we all know now that there was a great yield the county over, some fields averaging nearly 100 bushels to the acre and few that made less than fifty bushels. It is the earnest hope of 111 that the corn'crop will finish as abundantly as the oats crop did.