Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1894 — A SUGGESTION. [ARTICLE]

A SUGGESTION.

We have too much brush land in portions of Jasper county, the returns of which do not equal the taxes. Trim out the underbrush, let the sunshine in and sprinkle blue grass and timothy seed. In this way you can keep a piece of timbered land profitably, the sapplings growing more rapidly than when choked by undergrowth, and at the same time make very fair pasture. This requires but little extra labor and there is no better milk producer than a luxurant growth of blue grass. The great advantage of this over other grasses grown in this locality, is the fact that it is the first green carpet seen in the spring, and the last to leave us in the autumn.