Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-11-29

demonstration farms, and the National
Corn Exposition. AS head Of the ex.
tension department of Iowa State Col.
lege of Agriculture he did a work
which, Senator Cummins says, up to
the present time has increased the
wealth Of Iowa s30,O00,0O0.
The object of the H C Service Blu.
reau is the promotion of agricultural
education, and cooperation which
will tend to raise the whole tone of
commercial, industrial and farm life.
Since agriculture is the basis Of pros
perity and progress, naturally farm
problems claim first attention. The aim
is higher efficiency, both on and of
the farm.
To do big work big organization
is necessary. Not only the bigness.
but the perfection of the International
organization as we'll appealed to Pro.
lessor Holden. The big general agen-
cies, scattered all over the United
States and Canada: the statesmen,
travellers and expert machine men;
the 10000 dealers-every one, so far
as possible. is to be made an apostle
of better farming.
For years the International Har-
vester Company has realized the i'm
portance of service. 1t has spent mil
liens Of dollars in the perfection of Ia
bor-saving machines, and now the
company is going in for direct service
- irook N thu for,oore op1 Iiroo< IN
the farmers children, that the men
and women of tomorrow may be more
capable and so more prosperous than
the men and women of today.
1t is no longer theory that II we
are to get the most out of life we
must raise more per acre. "Inten-
sive farming" is in the air 1t is the
battle cry of peace and plenty. But
raising more is the result Of mind,
not muscle. We must know. And
not only that, we must Know we
know, and know why we know. We
must know good seed from bad, right
cultivation from wrong, and the why's
and wherefors of climates, soils,
fruits, cattle, horses, poultry, and so
forth.
For these things the bureau was
established. But the bureau aud
Professor Holden see more than an
average increase of a few bushels.
They see a time coming when farmers
will raise twice as many bushels OF
corn, wheat and oats to the acre.
and like yields Of all other kinds of
farm products They see time when
farmers and farmers wives and their
children will think more and work
less. Every bushel raised means just
that much profit and the profits of
the farm promote commerce and in
dustry.
After period of good work in Mich.
igan agricultural college. better work
at Illinois, and a great work at Iowa,
Professor Holden now enters upon a
worlds work While in future Pro.
lessor Holden will designate Chicago
Is home, he says he is not leaving Iowa
he is merely carrying Iowa to the
rest of the world.
HOW'S THIS.
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for any case Of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
f. J. CHENEY 4 CO.. Toledo. o.
We. the Undersigned. have known f:
Cheney for the last 10 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable In all business
transactions, and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his Arm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
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