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

If you would make your home attractive have an orchard or fruit garden. The man who plants trees gets his pay day .by day and at tbe same time builds a monument which will stand loop after he Is dead. A report is oat of a French garden es 2% acres that produced last year 225,000 pounds of fruits, roots and other vegetables. At 60 pounds to tha bushel, this if 4106 bushels. 1618 bushels to the acre. How the thing was done Is described, and the figures seem to be authentic. If true, ft is an indication of the possibilities of soil ss s producing agent