Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — Vegetarian Colony. [ARTICLE]

Vegetarian Colony.

At Oniuienburg, near Berlin, a colony of vegetarians was started seme years ago. and is growing slowly but steadily. Founded in 1893 by seven enthusiasts on the subject, there are at present forty->seven homesteads, the abodes of thirty-seven families and ten single men. In addition to the vegetables necessary for their own food they have planted 35,000 fruit trees and 15,000 berry bushes, and fenced In the entire property With a hedge of hazel nuts.