Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-11-30
CORN CROP IN IOWA.
Business Interests Giving Matter
Consideration.
A GRAIN IMPROVEMENT DAY.
Experts From Throughout Middle
West Will Participate i'm Day
of Discussion at Des MOines,
December 10th.

NSlOpiHS luIOuSuOuI loWd III tuC LudI-
ter of improvement of the grain
crops. Increased local consumption
in this country is absorbing the total
production, and the high prices OF
farm lands, if maintained, makes ii
absolutely necessary to increase the
yield and improve the quality OF
the grain crops in order to give suf-
ficient revenue to justify the invest
ment.
The business interests of the
country are giving this matter more
serious consideration than ever be-
fore. The export grain trade and
the financial interests of the East
and along the Atlantic sea-board
are anxious to maintain the export
grain trade, and the grain exchanges
and boards of trade are now giving
serious consideration to the ques-
tion of improvement of the grain
crops.
At the last annual meeting of the
Council of North American Grain
Exchanges, held in New York City,
a grain improvement committee was
appointed, and this committee will
undertake to exercise every influence
possible among the different agri-
cultural and commercial organiza-
tions to promote an interest and or
ganize united efforts to accomplish
the most effective results.
The program of grain improve
ment day, December 10th, at the
Iowa Corn Growers Exposition to be
held in Des Moines, December to
Is, will be under the auspices of the
Grain Improvement committees of
the Council of North American
Grain Exchanges and the Western
Grain Dealers Association. There
viii be a large attendance of the
members of the terminal market
grain exchanges ges-Minneapolis, Mil
waukee, Chicago, Peoria, st. Louis,
Kansas City and Omaha. There will
also be large representation of the
executive officials of the different
railroad lines operating in this ter
ritory, who have, during the past
few years, become exceedingly in
terested in the idea of improvement
of the grain crops, which is demon
strated by the large work that has
been done in providing gratuitously,
without cost to the state or govern
ment, the use of special trains for
the purpose of giving an opportun-
ity for the representatives of the
agricultural colleges to give lectures
to the farmers on different subjects
pertaining to the improvement of the
crops, and many of these railroad
companies employ agricultural ex-
perts who are continually working
along this line. The interest of the
railroads in crop development is
further and more recently evidenced
by the fact that six roads each
bought 500 one dollar memberships
to the Corn Growers Exposition
and distributed them free to farmers
living along their lines. The roads
that did this are the C. B. & Q. r.
R. Co; the c. r. l. G. p. R. R. Co.;
the c. NJ. G st. P. R. R. Co.; the
c. & n. w. R. r. Co.: the C. G. W.
X. r. Co.; and the Illinois Central.
AT the corn show, which promises
to be the largest grain exposition
ever shown in the state a novelty
will be introduced in the way O..
daily steroptican lectures on grain
improvement by Prof. p. C. Holden
of the State Agricultural college. In
arranging the program for grain
improvement day ii is intended, so
far as possible. to discuss the work
that is being done along the line of
improvement of the grain crops by
the different interests including the
questions of conservation of the fer
,tility Of the soil, farm crop expert
mentation, college extension work
as conducted at short courses, coun-
ty Institutes, county fairs, local exhi-
bits and on special trains. 1t is the
idea of the Iowa Corn Growers Ex-
position to give the farmer who pro-
duces the good seed an opportunity
to become prominent, and thus at
tain the attention of his neighbors
to whom he may sell his good seed
and thus extend the acreage planted
to good seed. Farmers and Others
who are interested should write M.
l.. Bowman, secretary Iowa Corn
Growers Association. Fleming Bldg.
Des Moines, Iowa, for a copy of the
premium list offering over $4,000
in premiums for the best rain ex-
hibited at the exposition.