Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1909 — SQUIRE DINGEE COMPANY BUYS SALTING STATIONS. [ARTICLE]

SQUIRE DINGEE COMPANY BUYS SALTING STATIONS.

Illinois Pickle Company Sells to Com* petltor Its Yats In Rensselaer, Parr and Gifford. The pickle salting stations which were established in Jasper county by the Bloomington and Illinois Pickle Companies have been sold to the Squire Dingee Co., of Chicago. The president of the company, Frank A. Brown, and one of his inspectors, Henry Makeben, were in Rensselaer Tuesday and closed a deal with the representatives of the Illinois Pickle Co., and they are now in possession of the plants at Rensselaer, Gifford and Parr. The buying company has ah established business and proposes to run the business in this county on as large a basis as possible, contracting next spring for as great an acreage as they can procure adjacent to the three stations and also to establish a station at Monon. President Brown, of the Squire Dingee Co. states that his concern has plenty of capital on which to do business and that they will treat their pickle growers right in every respect and that they will make payment every day for the purchases of that day. They may decide to install a cabbage and kraut plant also. They will select a local representative who will make the contracts and the contract books will be left here shortly. Mr. Makenben, who has been with the Squire Dingee Co. for the 'past eight or nine years, was formerly a grower of pickles and believes that every farmer about can arrange to grow an acre of pickles and give them proper attention. He says that he has made as high as $204 an acre from his cucumbers, and that last year one man made $248 off an acre and a quarter. “It brings in ready money just when it is needed,” said Mr. Makenben, “and where there is a family with two or three children a mighty good thing can be realized from an acre §r two or three of pickles. Old people who are unable to do hard work and people in town who can rent small tracts can also make good money.” The purchasing company is a large and successful concern and it is probably. quite fortunate that the business in the future is to be handled by them.