Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1898 — Governor Mount’s Experiment. [ARTICLE]

Governor Mount’s Experiment.

Governor Mount is preparing to try an experiment in wheat growing. Early in June he turned up the soil of a twenty-five acre field, which he intends to plant with wheat this fall. He proposes to give the field a heavy top dressing, he says, and see if he can not produce an extraordinary yield. The rule of the Indiana farmer has always been to “break” ground for wheat in August and September, and sow the seed as early as the earth could be put in order. The governor has an impression that spring “breaking” for wheat will prove to lie preferable.