Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-26
STRONG APPEAL MADE FOR COM
MISSION 70 STUDY EUROPEAN
FARMING.
TWICE As MUCH PRODUCED
Per- ACRE As IN Y. g.
Governor Dsclsrss Study at First Hand
Would Result in Great Good to Iowa
-commiss,oners to Serve Without
Expense to commonweaIth-Nsw Of
tho Legislature.
special to Times Republican.


of Governor Clarke for a commission
to visit Europe for the purpose of
studying farm systems follows:
To the Members of the Thirty fifth
General Assembly: Iowa has a soil
that IS not eQualled in its possibilities
by any other like area of the earth's
SUI face. Yet there are countries where
the soil. of much less natural fertility.
is made to produce, on the average, al
most, If not quite, twice as much per
acre of crops common to both cOun-
tries. This must necessarily be due to
better methods of soil conservation,
closer study of seed selection. better
methods of tillage and generally to
more profound study of soil production
as it is related to human needs and
welfare. The soil of England, Ger
many, France, after centuries of cul-
tivation, is made to produce on the
average twice as much wheat per acre
as is produced in this country. Hol-
land and Denmark do likewise and also
double the production per acre of oats.
potatoes and other crops produced
here. 1t is said of Denmark that no
other country In the world is to be
with which she treats her soil and in
results produced. To express it in an
other way il has been said that all the
rest of the world can go to Denmark to
learn how to farm. Her agricultural
schools, planted thickly over the coun-
try, superintended and taught by men
of very, highto OF scholarship are
said toas be 4 unsurpassed. Home
most careful attention with most ex-
cellent results. In some of the coun-
tries mentioned dairying has also been
brought to state of perfection and
profit not equalled elsewhere. The
utilization of the entire products OF
the field for feed and the study OF
food values has brought about great
economies. The great benefit or CO.
operation among agricultural indus :
tries has been conclusively demon :
strated. Thru coqoperation agriculture,
dairying and all allied Industries nave
been made much more profitable. Lana
tenancy in some of these countries has
been put upon a sound basis, just and
profitable alike to both landlord and
tenant, and at the same time COM
pelling the preservation and fertility OF
the soil. ~
1.-THE possibilities of Iowa wait upon
scientific STUDY Of ways and means.
She is crying butp so to speak, TO DC
given q chance to demonstrate to the
world the wondrous land she really Is.
She is impatient of this delay. she IS
tired Of being shorn OF her strength
when she should and could. If given
chance, bring forth in multiplied
abundance. Her wisest and most far-
seeing men want to lend hand 10
bring about this most desirable con-
summation.
believing that 1t would result IN
great benefit to our agricultural inter-
ests and thus also promotive of the
general good if study at first hand
by competent and we'll known citizens
of the state could be made in some Of
the countries mentioned, at least. OF
AGRICULTURAL conditions and methods
and dairying and schools and coop
GRAFTON and land tenantry and kindred
subjects with special reference to Iowa
conditions and needs and report
made of results, facts and conditions,
and believing that you will be glad to
co-operate with me in whatever will
prove helpful of our people in connec-
ton with these great subjects. l re-
specially ask that by resolution you
and empower me to appoint
and commission as representatives OF
the state of Iowa not more than three
persons for the purpose above named,
all to be without any expense whatever
to the state.
Done at. the city of Des Moines'
Iowa, March %. 1913.
GEORGE w. CLARKE.
Governor"