Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Plant the strawberry, , raspberry, way places about the farm-house, blackberry, currant and gooseberry. Plant the grapevine where It will climb over your piazza,’ about the porches of your house, and over the sunny sides of your barns and sheds, adding beauty everywhere, and furnishing bushels of fruit every season. Beds of strawberries, raspberries and blackberries do much to brighten a rural home. Fresh skimmed milk, buttermilk, or separator milk la a fine feed for hena and chicks, and the amount they will get away with la astonishing. Give all they Will uee up; no harm will come providing it Is fresh.. A ton of hay requires 400 cubic feet of space, while eight tons of silage will go Into the same space. In a ton of hay thdre are 886 pounds of dry d|gestlye matter and In silage occupying equal space 2094 pounds.