Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1908 — Salvage Wheat Brought Here. [ARTICLE]

Salvage Wheat Brought Here.

Persons residing near the depot or -having occasion to visit that neigh- 1 borhood, and more or less people living all over town, may have noticed a very disagreeable smell during the past few days. The odor arises from a box car, which was loaded with soured wheat, which was bought as salvage from the recently destroyed Armour elevatorß in Chicago. Frank Hill is the purchaser and this is the third or fourth car load he has bought. He uses it in feeding hogs and steers and it has almost as good fattening qualities as good new wheat. Some of this wheat was sunk in the Chicago river in barges that were partly consumed by the flames and it was some time .before the wheat was brought to the surface of the river. It is still damp and very musty and the odor is far from pleasant. Mr. Hill has sold some of 1 it to other feeders, getting $lO a ton for it