Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1918 — COMES HERE WEDNESDAY TO FIGHT THE BARBERRY BUSH [ARTICLE]

COMES HERE WEDNESDAY TO FIGHT THE BARBERRY BUSH

J. F. Holmes, a special representative of the United States Department of Argiculture, will spend the latter part, of this week in Rensselaer and through Jasper county, in the interests of the campaign against the common barberry bush which is regarded as a big detriment to the wheat crop because it harbors stem rust spores. Mr. Holmes, working witfy school authorities, mayors of the cities, county council of defense, County Agent Stewart Learning and other officials will try to find all the common barberry bushes, not the Japanese variety, in the city and county and have it removed as part of the war time food production program. The government asks that this be done by May 15, so as to benefit this year’s crops. Every person who has a common barberry bush in his or her yard will be asked to remove it as quickly as possible to give the wheat. crop a better chance of feeding America and her allies. Mr. Holmes, who will come here Wednesday afternoon, is spending the first half of the week in Tippecanoe county.