Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-08

we're plowed out and the late crop
came on without molestation.
"Thoroughness is what pays" said
". H. Rowe, and this is what he has
preached and illustrated most forcibly
,or many years to the young men of
he community. But one needs to see
the farm and hear his explanations to
understand half what that means to
Mr.. Rowe, who has made it a lifetime
labit to do keen, practical thinking
about every feature and step of his
work and to know by definite weights
and figures what he is accomplishing
in each line
The Rowes have mastered the grow
ing of soy beans, and this year they
have 10 acres of the finest crop the
writer ever saw. 1t will easily yield a
feeding value of this rich heterogeneous
product equal to IS bushels of corn per
acre. They have three little farms con
Quoted on much the same plan and
have sold more than $4,000 worth of
hogs this year at S7.35 and $3.50, and
nave 354 spring pigs which will go to
market next summer. They have prov
en- the benefits of rock phosphate and
have a carload ordered to apply this
fall
Blair Tells school Needs.
We shall always want the multiple
cation table and spelling wurn. The
boy has & right to accuse his teacher
if he finds that he cannot spell. can
not read. and doesn't understand word
relations. Not one moment must VIC
let up in getting agriculture in IT,.
school but we must be careful not to
get out OF the proper place the ZEN
thousand mechanical things that must
be put down III the child'S nervous
system, so the children will not have
to chew their tongues and change their
feet when asked simple questions
When the clerks reports come IN from
1910 townships, from 500 to 600 of
these clerks have to call in the super
intendent to make out their accounts
right. We must not cease to teach the
simple principles of arithmetic
| do believe the public school has
got to be adjusted to the boys and
girls AMI that more attention must be
given to the problem of making a liv.
ing. The schools are sending out too
many with no ability to do the work.
One of the things is to teach this
great subject of agriculture. There
are certain things about agriculture
that are Just as interesting as any
thing we have taught | do not see
why these farms cannot be. made to
produce a hundred fold. Every far
mer ought to know that he has no
right to rob the soil of its fertility
He ought to know how to preserve the
soil and make it yield greater crops
State Superintendent F. G. Blur at
Greenfield farm encampmeEt.
Great Corn and Poor Corn
Another fine object lesson is to be
seen on the farm of J. T. W:'Son On
the second bottom land near Winch s.
ter, Scott county. He has 400 acres
of corn in one great rectangle besides
other corn. The poorest Of it. as seen
Aug. 2S by Professor o. D. g 4ute- of
the university, promised so bushels per
acre, and other fields 20. 70 and 40
bushels. Right across from one Of
these fine fields was seen corn that
would make hardly half as much The
latter field was planted with the same
kind of seed. the difference being one
10 the care of the soil and cultivation
of the crop. No other corn rs good
was seen in the neighborhooi with one
exception. Mr.. Wilson has applied