Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1906 — Jasper County Not In It For Onions. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Not In It For Onions.

According to the figures of the Jerome Seed Company, of Cambridge, N. Y., Indiana will this year take first place as the greatest onion state in the nation. Ohio has heretofore had the proud distinction of producing more of the breath strengtheners than any other state but Indiana was close after it last year, and this year’s estimates gives our state the lead by nearly half a million bushels, Buttho Indiana is the big onion state, Jasper county which many people have no doubt thought was “some punkins” as an onion rais ing region, is really very small and few in the hill as compared with most other counties in the onion belt. The estimate for Jasper this year is 198 acres, with a yield of 185 bushels to the acre, and a total crop of 36,630 bushels. These figures do not cut much of a figure by the side of Noble county with 1,428 acres, Kosciusko with 967, Whitley 380, Lake 310 and DeKalb 285. Noble county by the way is the greatest onion producing county in the country with the excep tion of Orange county, N. Y., and that is credited with only 180 bushels and a few hundred thousand smells more than Noble. The latter’s total is put at 449,820 bushels. But not only in acreage but also in yield per acre many counties beat ours. Thus Jasper’s yield per acre is put at 185 bushels, while many counties make from 300 to as high as 500 bushels.