Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1911 — Buying Supplies. [ARTICLE]

Buying Supplies.

It’s a losing game to buy staple supplies in little dribs. The reason so many people are poor is because they buy groceries and coal In five and ten cent lots. Farm machinery comes pretty high, We sometimes think, but there is one thing in Its favor, it is not eating three meals A day when it is not working.

Fertilizer for Tomatoes. The soils and crops department has been conducting a number of fertilizer test experiments on tomatoes this year. The reports for this work are not complete as yet, but they are sufficiently advanced to indicate unmistakably that It is profitable to use commercial fertilizer when growing tomatoes in large quantities for the market.