Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1901 — Oats a Good Crop. [ARTICLE]

Oats a Good Crop.

Jasper county has a mighty good oats crop for this year of drouth. No one estimates the average crop at less than 30 bushels to the acre, and many would put it consider, ably higher than that. The largest yield we have heard of, so far, was raised by Brook Baedeker, on the James Randle farm, in Barkley. That was a 10 acre field, that went 60 bushels to the acre. In Newton tp., John Martindale’s whole crop went near 53 bushels to the acre. James Yeomau’s was right along there also, and some of the Halstead’s, also. But good oats are the rule in Newton tp., and Zimmer & Pray who did the thrashing out that way, say they only thrashed one f|eld that went as low as 31 bushels. And oats seem a good crop anywhere iu this vioinity. As for instance ip Jordan tp., where, as one inetanoe, on Uncle George Keesinger’s farm, 50 acres produced 1000 bushels, or 40 to the acres. But when it comee to large acreage aud big yield combined, McCoy & Porter are the big oats raisers this year as every year, and not only of Jordan township but of Jasper county; yea, even of all Indiana. They raised 600 acres this year, and the thrashing thereof has just been finished. The yield will be from 45 to 50 bushels per see, and the entire orop from 27,000 to 30,000 bushels.