Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — ONION GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION [ARTICLE]

ONION GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION

Jasper County Growers Organize for Mutual Benefit, Jasper county onion growers have just formed an organization patterned after the Pleasant Valley, lowa, Onion Growers’ association, to be known as the Jasper County Onion Growers’ association. T. M. Callahan is president; Dr. F. A. Turfler, vice president; S. C. Irwin, secretary and treasurer, and B. Forsythe and F. H. Henly directors. The sales manager is Charles (Hianna of Pleasant Valley, lowa, who has had a great deal of experience in the Pleasant Valley association, and an office will be opened up in Rensselaer and Mr. Hanna will remain here during the season to handle and dispose of the Jasper county crop. There were between 300 to 500 acres of onions raised in the county this year, but because of inferior seed, Mr. Hanna thinks, the per cent, of marketable onions is not nearly so large as it should be. He estimates the marketable onions at from 250 to 300 bushels per acre, - but at present prices, $2.12 to $2,37 per bushel, the growers will reap big returns from this year’s crop. A car was loaded yesterday at i Surrey from Dr. Turfler’s field, and shipments will probably t be quite numerous from now on. Very litI tie screening and crating has been done as yet, therefore it is a little difficult to estimate with any de- . gree of accuracy the marketable ' yield. .