Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1909 — Farmers are Plowing. [ARTICLE]

Farmers are Plowing.

It is not often that fanners in this section of the country plow their fields in January, but that is what they are doing now. Several farmers who came to town today said that they saw several ploughmen in the fields The frost is almost altogether out of the ground and as the weather is ■ cool and pleasant considerable ground 1 can be broken without hardship on tha. horses. The drouth last fall prevented fall plowing to a large extent, and the industrious fanner is trying to get his corn land Into shape for discing.