Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1919 — INDIANA MINT CROP LARGER [ARTICLE]

INDIANA MINT CROP LARGER

St. Joseph County Shows Largest Production—Big Profits. South Bend, Sept. 19.—With the mint growers realizing $250 to S3OO an acre, reports giyen out by the county agent and J. W. Beerd, government crop estimator, show that St. . Joseph county is the largest mint production county in the United States, and Jndlana produces two-thirds of the mint of the United States. During the summer season, 3,425 acres of mint were under cultlvatlon and produced a record-breaking crop. This year the yield near Nappanee, Ind., has been .unusually large and the farmers have received as high as $6.25 a pound for their mint.