Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1918 — GET AFTER NEGLECTED LAND [ARTICLE]

GET AFTER NEGLECTED LAND

Every- Citizen Should Recognize a Duty in Seeing That it la Kept Cleaned Up. Look not only to your own back yard, but take a proprietary interest In any vacant yards or neglected patches of land that are in your neighborhood. You really ought to have had them cleaned up last autumn, but If you didn’t then, in the cause of food conservation and with the hope of an increased crop from the home gardens this summer, have these patches cleared up. The department of agriculture sent a plea to the people of the land; to clean up all plots that were used a* war gardens last year in order that the insects that had been harbored in a dormant state in the underbrush and rubbish bright be exterminated arid not permitted to multiply and Increase. Ideally, entomologists tell us, as soon as the crop has been harvested, the remnants should be promptly cleared away and burned with the? insects which they harbor. Many persons apparently believe that the action of winter snows and winds would be sufficient to destroy Insect life, but such is not the case.