Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1918 — HERE ON FEW DAYS’ VISIT [ARTICLE]

HERE ON FEW DAYS’ VISIT

Charles H. Porter of Harrison, Montana, came Wednesday evening for a visit with his wife and old friends. Mr. Porter came to Chicago with three carloads of cattle from his ranch and came on down to Rensselaer for a short visit. Mr. Porter likes his new location firs’trate. He had very good crop this year, although a lheavy hail storm damaged the wheat crop considerably in his section of the state. They raise no corn there, Mr. Porter states, the seasons being too short for this cereal, and horses, cattle and hogs do not know what corn is. When he moved out there last spring Mr. Porter took a very littel corn along with him. He -shelled some of it and threw a few handfuls over to the drove of native hogs he had on his place, but they smelled of it, rooted it about a little, then walked off and left it. But later they returned to it and after getting a taste they thought it “great stuff" and wanted

more. Cattle are fattened on range and alfalfa, and hogs on oilier cereals. Mr, Porter had a big crop of potatoes this year, many of the tubers weighing from 3 to 5 pounds each. But potatoes are only about 60 cents there and he is feeding many of his to his hogs, cooking them up and mixing small grain with them. Mr. Porter will return to Montana- Monday. His wife and her mother, Mrs. Cordelia A. Williams, will leave here about January 1 to epend the winter in Florida.