Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1898 — Wheat Growing Too Rank. [ARTICLE]

Wheat Growing Too Rank.

The largest acreage of wheat ever sown in Jasper county was sown this fall. It. was got in, in good shape, and has grown and flourished past all previous experience, almost. In fact it has grown only too well and farmers are now greatly concerned *lest it grow so large as to put out joints this fall, in which case it will be ruined. A common expedient, when wheat or rye gets too large in the fall is to turn stock into it and pasture it down. But to many of our farmers thus expedient is not practicable. Some of them who raise grain keep but little stock; others do not have their wheatfields fenced off from other crops, and a more general difficulty still is the fact that the ground is so soft and loose that stock turned into the wheat pujl it out by the roots in trying to bite it off. It seems that the only hope of the wheat not growing too rank this fall, is an early change to colder and drier weather.