Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1918 — STOCK DESTROY FOOD. [ARTICLE]

STOCK DESTROY FOOD.

Harry Parker, in response to the patriotic fever, has been doing his bit by raising a large amount of vegetables in his large truck patch. That this is done for patroitic rather than financial reasons there can be no doubt. But Mr. Parker often becomes discouraged. Not long ago while working with the sweat of honest toil running down his face, Harry was seen to straighten up and make these remarks, “Well why should I break my back this way, when my studio brings me sufficient financial . returns and when some of this labor is lost by stock running at large and destroys a large portion of my products.” It is understood that when the stock first got into Harry’s truck patch that he thought it was an accident, when they got in the second t;ime he considered it carelessness and the third time he regarded it as pure cussedness and other offenses, well they are surely aggravating. About the only way to get a wife who can cook like mother used to cook it to marry an old woman who has had mother’s experience with a cook stove. \