Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1899 — Salt Hay Used to Preserve Plante[?] [ARTICLE]

Salt Hay Used to Preserve Plante[?]

Salt hay is used in winter for eovew Ing various kinds of plants that groy dose to the earth. It has a long stapA and tt serves this purpose welt Strawl with long staple is still used foe dling up plants and shrubs haviS| stalks. Salt hay is used in cemeMM' to cover up ivy-clad leaves. The ivy fl| thus kept In better condition than if I|| were left exposed to the blasts and cold of winter. The brown hay la IaJM lengthwise upon the grave in a covjjMg Ing of uniform thickness all over which is held In place by bent settled down upon it at intervals, hohH| like, and with their ends in the on either side.