Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-13

I IS surely an amazing fact that the
 corn crop of the states should av-
 craze year after year only about 30 bushels to the acre. The acreage planted is increased by millions from year to year. Vast areas of virgin territory are constantly being brought under cultivation It is a matter of record that many farmers raise 100, 200, some as high as 300 bushels to the acre, yet the average for the en- tire crop is never increased.
 Is 1t likely that there is anything wrong with the government figures? do not think so. There is as much care given as is possible to insure ac- curacy, and I daresay that many
 farmers, even if they raise more than
 30 bushels to the acre, will feel satis-
 fled that the figures are correct fsaKn
 his knowledge of what the aver ee
 yield is in his district
 The farms are titled by a pr Bfty
 good type of farmer, on the whV lie,
 hard working. and fairly sntelligknt.
 The best that we have been able1 to produce of the true American, and for the most part the best of the sturdy sons of the soil from many foreign lands. We have national depalt- ment of agriculture that has been the envy and the copy of the world, which is in sense. farmers university, and the sole aim and purpose of which has been and Is, to make bet ter farmers. For generation or more, it has striven by study, expert ment and printers ink lavishly dis seminated, to educate the farmer and bring him to a higher level as an eff cient tiller of the soil. Through the work of it's many professors it has presumably told the farmer much about seeds. and soils, and methods of cultivation, and of protection from insect pests, an infinite variety of de- tails about the vital facts concerning his business, yet the result remains the same, so far as corn is concerned, year after year-thirty bushels to the acre.
 In almost every state in the Union there is now, and has long been, an agricultural experiment station, work ing in cooperation with the federal de- partment of agriculture and hand and hand with the farmers of the state to educate him. The stations are equipped with professors, and ex- perts many of them of the highest authority in the land, vast tracts are under experin antal cultivation, they have been planning. working, testing soils and seeds, and fertilizers, to aid the farmer in the exercise of economy and the growing of better crops. The net results of their labors they are disseminating by means of lectures, and correspondence, and bulletins, free, for all who would avail of such-yet the net result after all these years is an average of 30 bush els to the acre for corn
 The agriculMrale colleges have gone even further than this. They have in many instances not been con tent to work and lecture and print the results of their labors for the benefit of progressive farmers. they have been militant in their work, nave lHSututeu cdIHpdlSHS Ol euuCd- tion by sending out some of the pro fessors on special trains, right in the heart of farming districts, and giving the farmer heart-to-heart talks. and object lessons in better farming methods; telling him about soils, methods of cultivation, seed selec- tion, inviting them freely to ask questions. to the end that he may be- come more enthusiastic worker and raise better crops. Although this has question many have profited by it, yet the average yield for corn the past year was just the same-30 busAsls.