Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1918 — ASKS MORE FOOD PRODUCTION [ARTICLE]

ASKS MORE FOOD PRODUCTION

Governor Wants County Farms to Increase Cultivated Acreage. Governor Goodrich has issued an appeal to county boards of commissioners asking that steps be taken to cultivate and plant every | available acre of grcyind at all county infirmaries to aid war production. irihis appeal the governor said: •'The poor asylums off this state have in farms an aggregate of 19,322 acres. The greater part of this can be cultivated. The need is for both farm and garden crops. Some poor asylums which formerly bought much fruit and vegetables now grow an abundance for their own use. Some have increased their dairy herds and poultry flocks. Many of them use the labor of inmates in one or more of these industries, according to their ability, to their benefit and happiness.” Try The Democrat’s Want Ad column. Yon will be most agreeubly surprised by the results.