Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-27
PROF. w. J, KENNEDY, LIEUTEN-
ANT GOVERNOR CLARKE, AND
HENRY WALLACE SPEAKERS.
KENNEDY URGES GROWING
OF ALFALFA IN IOWA
Balanced Ration For Stock
Can 30 Grown Hero as We'll az Any
Place, and Predicts Will Soon BE
One Of States Leading Crops-CIarks
on Greater Iowa Movement.

Three speakers Of note claimed the
attention and received the approval OF
the crowds which gathered at the Lib
erty Township Farmers Club picnic at
Biven's Grove Friday. Lieut.. Governor
George w. Clarke, Prof. w. ]. Kennedy.
Of Ames, who succeeded Professor
Holden as head OF the extension de-
parrment of the Ames school, and
Henry Wallace, editor Of NallaceS
Farmer, Des Moines, We're the speak
erS.
The picnic was we'll attended by
farmers and business and professional
men from the various towns and cit
les within reach by automobile. Music
was furnished by a quartet from Mar
shalltown, comprising Messrs. Wallace
Arney. Henry Wilson, w. w. Fuller,
and +. Aubrey Smith. a picnic dinner
was enjoyed at noon, and succeeding
the speaking hotly-contested base
ball game between Liberty and Miner
Va township teams was fought out in
an adjacent pasture.
Kennedy Urges Alfalfa Growing.
The speakers were presented to their
fashion by ]. r. Howard, president Of
the club. Professor Kennedy spoke in
his essentially practical fashion along
lines of improvement in country condi
tons, of the need and value of better
country schools and churches. and
wider social connections. He urged
Iowa farmers to undertake the culture
of alfalfa predicting that the time is
M ia u-h a IA
of the most valuable crops of the state.
He pointed out that alfalfa made
balanced alton raised entirely on the
farm, leaving nothing to be purchased
elsewhere in order to get the best feed
ing results. His advice was to inocu
late the land. not necessarily by pur-
chased germs. but by scattering few
bushels to the acre Of dirt taken from
spots where sweet clover is growing,
by buying some alfalfa to feed the
winter previous to seeding. and hauling
the manure upon the acreage to be
seeded. His advice was to start with
not more than five acres.
His conclusions as to the value Of
alfalfa and the practicability of grow
ing it in Iowa, were endorsed by Lieu
tenant Governor Clarke, who raises
and feeds alfalfa on his farm near
Abel. and who said the horses would
leave corn, the cows timothy or clover,
to eat the alfalfa.
Henry Wallace spoke at length upon
rural conditions and improvement. He
advised the farmer to make a civiliza-
ton Of his own. to have his own good
schools, his own good minister and to
adapt opportunity to his needs and his
environment. Mr.. Wallace had had a
vision on his way by auto between
Iowa farms to attend the picnic, and
eloquently pictured the future Of the
state.
Clarke on "a Creator Iowa."
Lieutenant Governor Clarke made an
excellent and practical speech on 1.-The
Greater Iowa Movement" which was
received with every mark OF approval
by his entire audience. The major
part Of the gathering had never heard
Mr.. Clarke before, and interest was in
tensifed by the fact that he is the re-
publican candidate for the governor
ship. He spoke at length for a greater
Iowa, and insisted that the farms and
the factories are mutually to be fos-
tered and developed.
Some OF his figures on the magni-
| tude Of Iowa manufacturing were as
tonishing when compared with the vol
ume Of farm products and their prices.
He predicted that Iowa should become
a great manufacturing state as we'll as
great agricultural state and furnish
her own home market with the labor
| which should make up her own raw
material. Among other things he in
sisted that the state institutions should
pay the richest dividends possible to
all the people on the investment
which is being made by all the people,
and that correspondence courses and
extension work should bring the state
university and the agricultural school
in close touch with those who either
can not or do not avail themselves of
college residence.