The Huttig news., 1913-08-16
Purpose of Campaign.

 paign is to show the American farmer that alfalfa is the most profitable crop he can grow; that it can be grown proftably upon every farm; that it en- riches the soil; increases farm values; stimulates live stock growing and dai- rying; produces double that of other hay crops, and Is better feed.
 Thirteen campaigns have thus far been successfully conducted in Mich- igan, Ohio and Illinois.
 Some of the Results.
 Results of the Kent county (Mieh.) campaign are:
 their homes during a fveday
 campaign.
 (2) Thirty-two meetings held. (3l Three hundred and seventy-fve
 miles travelled by the Alfalfa Au.
 tomobile Train.
 (4) One hundred and thirty-six alfalfa
 talks made by the Holden staff
 of alfalfa lecturers.
 (5) Many applications for similar cam
 paigns from all parts of the
 United States.
 The Kent county campaign has bean followed by campaigns in Allegan, Barry, Grand Traverse and St. Clair counties, Michigan; Van Vert. Marion, Fulton, Williams and Champaign coun- ties, Ohio; and Sangamon, Outage and Kane counties, Illinois.
 Great Meeting in Ohio.
 At one meeting in Ohio upon the farm of Joseph E. Wing, near Mechan- icsburg, nearly 4,000 people gathered from all parts of Ohio and adjoining states to learn more about alfalfa At this great meeting the Ohio State Al falfa Growers association was organ ized. Over 300 automobiles made up the alfalfa train. It is recorded as the greatest agricultural assemblage in the history of Ohio. Other Ohio counties where the work has been taken up report success on every hand.
 Sangamon and Kane counties, Illi- nois, have both conducted great cam paigns. At one meeting in Williams vile, H., over 1,200 farmers came to hear the alfalfa lecturers.
 In all of these campaigns which were conducted within period of about two months nearly 50,000 farm CTS have been reached With the gos- pei of alfalfa.
 AS result also of the campaign work it is conservatively estimated that 100000 acres of alfalfa will be seeded during this and the coming season.
 Such is the result of the initial work of campaigning for alfalfa. but vastly more than this tangible result has been accomplished. Every farmer throughout the region where the work was conducted is talking about al falfa. The cooperation of the schools n the territory is very important md effective feature School officials, rom the highest to the lowest, have never failed to appreciate the oppor. unity.
 Professor Holden has expressed himself as considering it the most
 
 wonderful experience and the most beneficial trip from the farm stand point that he has ever taken.
 But this is not all--wherever the farmers of any community are inter- ested in the growing of alfalfa, when possible follow-up man, thorough. in his knowledge of alfalfa culture, will be sent out to assist them in getting Q start. He will live with the farmers and aid them in solving the problems at home. He will 50 from farm to farm upon re- quest and study success and failure. Before the coming of 1914 cam i,aigns will have been conducted in every part of the United States and Canada Interest is growing so rap- Idly that many counties have organized campaigns and undertaken the work itaout assistance from the outside.