Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1917 — Rensselaer Doing Her Part In Raising Garden Produce. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Doing Her Part In Raising Garden Produce.

Rensselaer citizens are responding to the call of the government in the way of raising their own garden produce, in the scheme lined out for a greater acreage of foodstuffs du ring the perjod of the war. Practically every available spot in the city has been put into cultivation. Acres of potatoes and other garden truck have been planted and if every other city in the country does as well as Rensselaer there will be no cause for a food shortage this winter. Reports from other sections indicate that throughout the United States the people are responding to the call to raise their own foodstuffs and the preparedness campaign in the way of foodstuffs has been a decided success.