Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1918 — SPLENDID WHEAT PROSPECTS [ARTICLE]

SPLENDID WHEAT PROSPECTS

With Largest Acreage! in Its History Jasper County Will Have a Bumper Crop. There is certainly a remarkably large acreage of excellent wheat in Jasper county this season. In fact, it is all good and the acreage is probably the largest by-far in the history of the county. Hundreds of farmers have out from 20 to 40 acres, while many have 80 to 120 acres and more. Emmet Pullins of Barkley township has out 120 acres and there probably are some others in Barkley township having an even greater acreage out. Chamberlain & Marlatt have out 150 acres of wheat on their Barkley and Walker township lands, 90 acres-of rye and 160 acres of oats. James E. Walter, foreman of the J. J. Lawler farms, reports that on the Lawler lainds east of town and near Rensselaer, they have out 300 acres of wheat, 164. acres of rye, 500 .acres of oats, 600 acres of corn, 80 acres of cane ensilage and 18 acres of soy beans. On the J. M. Wasson farm southeast of Rensselaer there is 80 acres of wheat and 30 acres of rye. There are hundreds of other good sized fields of' wheat and rye in the county, and prospects for a bumper yield of bread-making cereals is- indeed most optomistic.