The log cabin Democrat., 1913-09-04
Thirteen Campaigns Have Been Car ried on in Michigan, Ohio ano ''''- nois-HoIden's Plan Meets warm
 Reception With the Farmers'

The latest plan or Holuon place alfalfa upon every farm. Inefs are three prominent features Tn ne plan
 (1) The introduction of . comparsr
 lively new crop into the Corn
 Belt. Southern and Eastern
 states.
 (2) Going direct to the homes or tho
 farmers, where meetings are
 held in the fields. and success
 and failure discussed according
 to local conditions. (3) The use of that most modern Ve
 hicle-the automobile.
 Purposs of Campaign.
 The primary purpose of tho cam paign Is to show the American rarmes that alfalfa is the most profitable crop he can grow; that it can be grown profitably upon every farm; that 1t en-- riches the soil; increases farm valuss;' stimulates live stock growing and daa-- rying; produces double that of other- hay crops. and Is better feed.
 Thirteen campaigns have thus faf' O0cu SuCCCO6kuAly SOAooS~S - igan. Ohio and Illinois.
 Some of the Rssutts.
 Results of tbe Kent county (Hachf campaign are:
 CD Six thousand farmers visited ee
 their homes during . NverdAy
 campaign. (1) Thirty-two meetings held. (9) Three hundred and Seventy-nve
 miles travelled by the Alfalfa Au-
 tomobile Train.
 (l) One hundred and thirty-six alfalfa
 talks made by the Holden stan
 of alfalfa lecturers. (6) Many applications for similar cam
 paigns from all parts of the'
 United States.
 The Kent county campaign has been. 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, Outrage 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,O0O 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 hand.
 Sangamon and Kane counties, llli- nois, have both conducted great cam, paigns. At one meeting in Williams- vile, H., over 1900 farmers came to hear the alfalfa lecturers. In all of these campaigns which were conducted within period of | about two months nearly 50.O00 farm CTS have been reached with the gos- pei of alfalfa
 | AS result also of the campaign l 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 1 falfa. The cooperation of the schools | in the territory is very important ! and effective feature. School officials. 1 from the highest to the lowest, have never failed to appreciate the oppor. tunity.
 Professor Holden has expressed himself as considering it the most wonderful experience and the most beneficial trip from the farm stand p 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 inE his knowledge of alfalfa culture, will be sent out to assist them in getting start. He will live with the farmers and aid them in solving the problems at home. He will go from farm to farm upon re- quest and study success and failure.
 Before the coming of 1914 cam paigns will have been conducted in every part of the United States and canada. Interest is growing so rap ldly that many counties have organized