Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1918 — SET AFTER NEGLECTED LAND [ARTICLE]

SET AFTER NEGLECTED LAND

Every Citizen Should Recognize a Duty In Seeing That It I* Kept Cleaned Up. ■ o . 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 ari 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 as war gardens last year in order that the insects that had been harbored in a dormant state in the underbrush and rubbish might be exterminated and not permitted to multiply and increase. Ideally, entomologists tell us, as soon as the crop has been harvested, the remnants should berpromptly 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.