40 Years Ago
September 1978
Milo poured into waiting trailers from a combine west of Iola Thursday as Gordon Conger harvested the grain from an experimental plot. Forty-seven varieties of the feed grain from seven companies had been planted in the field in the middle of May. Only between five and seven inches of rain fell on the field between then and this weeks cutting. Considering the desert-like weather, it was a good crop. Conger and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Conger, operators of Triple C Farms, produce grain on over 1,000 acres. In a normal year they raise all they need to feed their large herd of Holstein dairy cattle and sell about 50,000 bushels for cash. This years drought reduced the harvest to about half normal. Well be lucky to net enough to pay the interest on our loans, he said. Conger said he will continue to participate in experiments with new varieties. One of them could turn out to be just right for Allen County, he said.
