Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1904 — Crop Report From Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Crop Report From Indiana.

Today’s. Indianapolis Journal continues its county report on tbe crop prospects. The report from Japer county was published today. Its mention of the favorable prospect for oats, indicates that it wa« prepared before the late deluging rains. Tbe following is tbe report: Rensselaer, Ind,, April 25.—The fact that Jasper county is not a wheat-growing county makes tbe fact of wheal’s success or failure of comparatively little importance to the farmers. Probably not more than one farmer in twenty, take the county over, tries to raise any wheat at all James Yeoman, of Newton townsh’p, is tbe wheat king of Jasper, and he has but forty acres in the grain. What little there is promised well a month ago, but the alternate thawing and freezing and tbe very heavy. rains have caused great deterioration. It is not likely that half a crop will be raised by any grower in tbe county. Jasper ccunty gives its attention largely to oats, and all indications point to a bumper crop in this cereal, so that the loss iu wheat will not be felt.