Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-08
TIME-what farm teachers say

IlME-Wnat farm teachers say VI
prepared by Arthur ]. Bid
Hog cholera costs Illinois $1,000,000
to $4,O00,000 annually in animals de.
stroyed This disease can now be
controlled through immunizing serum
discovered by the United States bur-
eau of animal husbandry, and the ILL
nois Farmers institute asked the gen.
,eral assembly to authorize the state
board of live stock commissioners to
prepare and furnish this serum free to
the stock men of the state.
In farmers institutes Illinois leads
the nation in three things: Coopera-
ton with the school teachers and SUI
perintendents, cooperation with the
normal schools, and in the number of
college and station men that appear
on the institute programs, while Hi
nois does not lead in the permanency
of its local organizations, in the for
nation of farmers clubs and young
peoples clubs, nor in agricultural
short courses" in places remote from
the college of agriculture.-Frank II.
Hall, superintendent of institutes.
The question has been raised why
S15O,000 should be asked of the
state for an armory at the Universe
ty of Illinois? The answer is easy.
The University of Illinois is getting
100000 annually from the general
government, with the specific under
standing that certain classes of stu
dents shall be given military train
ing. There are now 1.400 men al
the university who must be thus
trained and there is no building tC
accommodate them. The present build
ing cost but $4,000. Aside from
the physical benefits of the drill anG
the practical value of it in the event
of a war; this 100000 per year coult
be stopped if the university fails to
drill the students.
| say it Understandings that to ms
it would have been of far greater
value to have been taught the care
and feeding of an infant than all the
higher mathematics | ever had; ant
of what untold value ii would have
been it, instead of Analysing so man!
flowers, the names of which were sool
forgotten, some of that time had beer
spent in studying the starch cell ant
the proper application of heat to fl
those cells to be easily digested ant
assimilated by man.-Nora B. DUNLAP
The 100000 asked for investigation
in soils, crops, live stock, dairyine
horticulture and Horticulture by the Il
linoiS experiment station amount t
less than a cent an acre year TO
Illinois lands. Surely the results o
the experiments are worth many time
this amount. pThe work of this station
has already increased the earning
power of the state to equal all eS
penSes of the station, the whole uni
versity. and the five normal schools
Although Chicago pays 40 per cent o
I the tax, it never demurs at anything
that would build up the agriculture o
the state. Illinois is putting into tn
development of it's agriculture less thai
half as much as into the education an
care of its defective children. Illinoi
is giving more than Is times as niue
to care for its insane as to develop it
greatest industry, agriculture.-Dr. Ell
gene Davenport, dean of the college c
agriculture.
William c. Eckhardt, in charge {
the Illinois field experiments in diffe
ent parts of the state, reported tn
average increase in corn from the us
of rock phosphate, as 10 bushels pc
acre for 1908 in six separate compar
sons at Galesburg, Myrtle, Rockfor
and Antioch in northern Illinois, MOI
important than the increased Gro
yields, which in themselves pay ft