Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1918 — SHEEP AS BENEFACTORS [ARTICLE]

SHEEP AS BENEFACTORS

A hundred times you have noticed and been annoyed by the man, horse and little moving machine going about clipping the grass on the golf course. Sometimes you have noticed another fellow, or a group of fellows," going over the course, bending, prodding In the grass with little trowel-llke tools. Annoying? Yes; but, In the ordinary course of things, necessary. The grass has to be kept short and smooth for your comfort and convenience. And the ugly weeds have to be rooted out. Still all of that work has to be paid for out of the dues of the members. And, after all, the whole business—annoyance and expense—might be avoided. A flock of sheep would keep the grass clipped as closely and as neatly as the mower does —and the sheep would eradicate the weeds much more certainly than the prodding fellows ppssibly can. Besides, they would convert thegrass and weeds into meat and’ wool to help the nation through an emergency In which It badly needs both meat and W’OOl. •_