Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1918 — WOULD SAVE IRISH FARMS [ARTICLE]

WOULD SAVE IRISH FARMS

Reconstruction Committee Plans to Get Land Irito the Hands of Skilled Cultivators. Dublin.—lrish farmers have been startled by a proposal made by the reconstruction committee that the government purchase some of the Irish farms w’hich are not being cultivated and sell th&n to competent cultivators or employ- skillful and progressive farmers to cultivate them. Sit Horace Plunkett, a meinber of a subcommittee, has reported that some Irish farms are occupied by incompetent or Incapable men, who will not improve their methods under instructions or if punished by penalties. The land deteriorates and is wasted for several years, while the occupant grows poorer and poorer and generally is crushed by his creditors.