Mexico weekly ledger., 1913-05-29
teal knowledge to get better results.
D. n. Doane Speaks.

tlcal knowledge to get better results.
o. n. Doane Speaks.
ID H.Doane, head of the State
Farm Adviser Department, spoke oil
the Farm Adviser plan and how the
Farmers Bureau should be organized
and conducted. He talked only &
short time, saying there were SO ma
ny no the program who had more
to say than he did that he would re
tire.
Farmer Rusk Speaks
Farmer Rusk made a short talk
telling what he hoped to accomplish
in Audrain, what he had been doing
since his arrival and answering ques
tons. He was enthusiastically re-
ceiyed.
J. Kelley Wright's Talk.
J. Kelley Wright, lecturer for the
State Farm Institutes, made one OF
his Enthusiastically interesting adj
dresses. After showing the farmer
the necessity of conserving his soil
fertility and rotating crops he asked
a number of questions of the men
present to show how few knew real
ly the interesting facts about his
county.
In speaking of Farmer Rusk, he
said:
IF you will organize your efforts,
and put your shoulders to the wheel
with Mr.. Rusk, a man born and rear
ed on the farm, growing up there
just like other farmer boys learning
through hard work and persistent eff
fort the practical side of life on
the farm,then after reaching maturity
spending four long years in study
with the best students of scientific
agriculture in the country, Audrain
county viii take on new life. For his
efforts will not be confined to indi-
vidual visits to the farm. OF course,
he will make these visits only on in
vltation. But he will hold farmers
meetings throughout the county, work
with the county superintendent OF
schools in his meetings, talk to
teachers and school children, and pos
sibly render some assistance to rur-
al pastors who are putting renewed
energy into a revival of the o
try church that it may do something
for the country community He will
assist in getting more efficient farm
labor. He will keep a record in his
office of the surplus products of
the county and will help to find a
market for them. He will do much
to keep impure seeds out of the cou1l-
ty. His efforts in this line alone
will more than compensate for his
salary, He will take the initiative
in tho control of hog cholera, and tu-
bereulosis in cattle. In fact he will
be d willing servant Of the county, al
ways mindful and safeguarding It's
best interests thereby rendering a
service that can not be paid for in
dollars and cents. If he can help the
man have a home after a while for
his family, help him to grow better
corn, better fruit, better live stock
better boys and girls, build a better
home, his labor Will not have been
in vain. He will have served the
Lord just as much as the man who
stands in the pulpit. Who Will be the
first to enlist in the cause and
say God speed?"
The farm adviser does not CLAIM
that he knows more about farming
than anybody else. He does claim
to know some of the methods as praC
, ticed by the best and most successful
men Of the farm. He does claim tina
, he may know a few things that yol
perhaps might like to have in ex
! change for some things that he does
not know. A fair exchange is NO rob
berry.
!. 1. How many of us know how
many miles of road in the county?
2. How much money have you to
build roads with in this county?
!, 3, How many farms are there in
this county?
A. How many schools are there il
this county?
: s. How many of these are rural
schools?
6. How much money do you spen
on rural schools?
Z. How much money on cit
schools?
s. Which class of schools has tn
o greater number of pupils?
o. How many churches in this coul
ty? How many are country churches
10. Who spends the most for tn
preaching he gets, the man in tow
or the man in the country?
II. How many of us present hay
been filling the soil on the same far
6 for ten years?
IL. How many of us know how
+ many different kinds of soil on on
own farm?
10. How many OF us know whetht
our soil is acid or not?
d IA. How many of us know how
v find out?
!, 10. How many of us know at least
d three conditions necessary before W
Il can get alfalfa to grow successfully
16. How many have tried to- gro
alfalfa and failed?
!, II. How many of us know the di
ference between a grass and a /
gume?
Is. How many of us can name fou
grasses and four legumes which "
grow as field crops?
10. How many of us know the chi
i ways in which the water gets out
the soil?