Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-19
The Warren Bill Will Come Up
For Consideration In Senate
This Week
THE ADULTERATED MILL BILL
Likely That Creamery Men Will Come
to Des Moines to Fight the Measure
Which Would Be Detrimental to the
Large Centralized PIants-Lesisla-
tive Work.
[By Ora Williams.l

Special to Times Republican,.
Des Moines, Feb. 19.-One of the
most remarkable bills before the leg
islature, one which has hardly attract
ed attention it has deserved and which
indicates plainly drift toward further
state aid in the development OF the
great agricultural resources of the
state, is a bill introduced some time
ago by r. w. Weeks, of Guthrie coun-
ty, and now before the committee on
agriculture. 1t is improbable the bill
will become law, because it calls for
a large appropriation and the state has
not the money to be used in that way;
but it is almost certain the agricultural
committee will report out the bill fav-
orably and let it go before the house
for consideration. The bill is entitled
one to provide for extension work
vestigations and experimental work
by the agricultural experiment station,
and in the bill the college is author
iHVu tiIlu d1ICCIEd W QliuCl tuhc anu Cal
ry on a comprehensive system of agri-
cultural extension work. This work
shall consist in part, of giving instruc-
ton in corn ard stock judging at agri-
cultural fairs, institutes and clubs;
aiding in conducting short courses of
instruction at suitable places thruout
the state; in lectures and instructions
in the growing of corn and other crops
and fruit, on stock raising, dairying,
land drainage and kindred subjects, on
special trains and otherwise. The work
shall be so Planned as to best carry
to the communities remote from the
college the benefits of the skilled In
struction given by the teachers there
and of the results reached in the work
of the experiment station. The funds
appropriated shall be expended accord
ing to plans agreed upon by the presf-
dent and dean of agriculture of the
college at Ames and an advisory COM
mittee consisting of the presidents of
the Iowa grain dealers association,
corn growers. state agricultural society,
stock breeders. dairy associa-
ton, corn belt meat producers, the nor
ticultural society and the agricultural
press. Here are some of the special
provisions of the bill showing the
scope of the work:
1t shall be the duty of the Iowa
agricultural experiment station to
conduct experiments in the several
sections of the state in order to deter
mine the best methods of producing
corn. oats, wheat barley, clover, alfal-
ia and other crops in the different To-
calities and under the various climatic
conditions of the state, and also for
the purpose of discovering those vari-
cites which are best adapted to these
conditions and to improve the varie-
ties grown for special purposes.
1t shall be, the duty of the agricul-
tural experiment station to make
an accurate survey OF the
principal types Of soil in the
state and publish maps showing
the location, extent and boundaries of
each; to conduct a comprehensive
series of experiments on each of these
types of soil in order to determine
what crops are best adapted to each
of them and what methods of blowing.
of the seed bed, manuring
and fertilizing. best tend to improve
the physical condition of the several
types of soil, SO as to not only main
tain but also to increase their fertility;
to determine by laboratory, green
house and field experiments the treat
ment best calculated to bring into sue
cessful cultivation the numerous small
areas of peat in northern Iowa. the al
kali spots of the newer drift areas, the
g,,mbo. ferretto and leached soils found
in various sections Of the state; to de-
termine the most practical system of
crop rotation for each principal soil
type and to discover adequate meth
DDS for the prevention of soil erosion
1t shall he the duty Of the Iowa
agricultural experiment station to
conduct Investigations calculated to
develop the beef. pork. mutton. horse
and poultry producing interests of the
state, and especially to devise and con-
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