Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1916 — Fertile Acre in City Limits. [ARTICLE]

Fertile Acre in City Limits.

John S. Ware, secretary and treasurer of the Cumberland Trust company and until recently deputy state treasurer, is an enthusiast in truck raising, and has a most productive acre of land connected with his residence directly in Bridgeton. This year Mr. Ware has taken from this single acre over SI,OOO worth of produce, and with the fall and winter crops expects to make the yield run up to $1,500. A quarter-acre has yielded S2OO worth of onions, one-third of an acre S6OO worth of lettuce, and from another quarter-acre $l5O worth of tomatoes have already been sold. Mr. Ware will easily pick SSOO worth of fall lettuce and celery. The land is Irrigated from the city water plant.— Bridgeton Dispatch Philadelphia Record. r