Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1903 — Oats Crop Will Be Short. [ARTICLE]

Oats Crop Will Be Short.

A shortage in the oats crop is now considered a certainty by those who have traveled over any considerable part of Indiana and they say that many fields will not be out at all. The oats are too short for the binder and all that are not out with a mowing machine wilt be pastured probably by those farmers who have stock to turn on. If the shortage in the crop is as general over the country as in this part of the state, the price may have an upward tendency. In Jasper county, one of the banner oats counties of the state, estimates differ as to the probable harvest ranging from one third to two thirds of an average crop. If, however, when the final clean-up is made, if there are thrashed out half as miny bushels by weight of oats as there were last year, it will be better than many expeot.