Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1914 — HEMP ON MUCK LAND. [ARTICLE]

HEMP ON MUCK LAND.

New Industry Growing in Kosciusko County Marshes. Warsaw, Ind., April 24.—Hemp growing is becoming one of the leading industries in Kosciusko county. Muck land, originally almost worthless, is now being used for hemp. J. B. Abbott, head of the department of soils and crops of Purdue university, is now hero studying the muck soil for the purpose of finding a fertilizer that will improv? the quality of the hemp. The Purdue experiment station is co-operating with the bureau of plant industry at Washington. A representative of' the bureau will come to the county this week to make further investigation.