Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1905 — WILLOWS. [ARTICLE]

WILLOWS.

The time for peeling willows is at band. Peel and let the bark hang and sure death to branch and root will follow. This is important to the owners of the right of way of all ditohes now in process of construction. The statute under which the Iroquois ditch is to be let on August 4, 1905, requires the owner of the land to remove willows from the ditch and its banks. (Sec. 21.) It is important that the owners of land through which it is to be cut kill the willows before the dredge comes along and covers the live trees in the deposits on the banks and leaves the live roots and branches in the ditch itself, xx