Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1901 — Vacant Lots. [ARTICLE]

Vacant Lots.

Vacant lots have been successfully cultivated hi Philadelphia under the direction of the Philadelphia Vacant Lots Cultivation Association. During the past years gardens were provided for four hundred and eighty families, consisting of two thousand four hundred and eighty-six persons. The aggregate receipts from the various farms showed a total of nearly twentyfive thousand dollars. This is six times the amount expended by the association on the lands. Five families became so adept at gardening that their savings enabled them to hire ample farms of their own. Thirteen families were given Belgian hares for exiierimont lost year, and the successful results attained will cause the association to take up this line of Industry on the farms tills year.