Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1898 — Plies in The Wheat. [ARTICLE]

Plies in The Wheat.

Rye cutting was nearly or quite all done last week, and in so in e townships wheat harvest was begun. This week it is in full progress. Bad news regarding the wheat was brought in by a prominent Union township fanner Saturday. He said that the tlies were m it bad, and was confident they had reduced the crop fully one fourth, in this county. Ho said that in many cases the farmers did not know the flies were in their wheat at all, but when they examined it closely they found the heads were very light.