The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-17

instances did not know whether Pc
tatoes grew on vines or trees.
| The agricultural extension service
at the college here has sent millions
OF copies Of food emergency leaflets
to all parts of the state since April
The literature distribution has been
SO complete that not many in Iowa
have missed receiving some sort OF
pamphlet that will enable them to aid
| in the states great production and
conservation movement. The work OF
the state boards have not been with
out praise for various bureau chiefs
at Washington have written to the ex-
tension bureau thanking it and endors.
ing the various movements Of the To-
cal body.
More than 100000. home gardening
bulletins have been sent out from
Ames. Country newspapers and those
IN the bigger cities We're supplied with
information which aided in boosting
the home production of the state. OFF,
Gals in the state house at Des Moines
are agreed that no little share of the
praise for the states increased pro-
duction goes to the state college here.
Sixty thousand volunteer food pro-
ducers We're organized under the di-
rection of the extension bureau. or
this number II 900 have volunteered
for garden work; $500 are doing farm
work; $500 home thrifts and health
preservation work; 1900 for canning
and the remainder for testing, select
ing seed and fight insects and other
destructive pests.
Twenty thousand members have
have been enrolled in the boys and
girls Club work, double the number OF
1916. The garden enrolment alone is
equal this year to the entire enroll
ment last summer. The other divis-
lens of the enrolment work include
corn, poultry, pig and beef production,
garment making, canning. food prepar-
alton and handicraft work.
The organization of farm labor
bureaus has played big part in the
campaign. The latest account shows
that more than four thousand men
have been placed for farm labor
through 1872 of the BAL bureaus in
the state. Reports from the remain-
der will probably bring this number
to six or seven thousand.
Besides these thousands placed
through the farm bureaus reports
from more than three hundred high
schools in the state. show that 11,165
boys from these schools are either
helping on Iowa farms or are ready
to answer any call for more help on
the farms.
One thousand farmers this year
are listed in the Iowa agricultural
experiment association, against 666
last year. This means that thou
sand farmers are this year trying out
new strains of various crops that
will ultimately determine the best
types to grow in Iowa and thus add
to future production.
Another feature in Iowa's produc-
tioR movement is the series of can
and are being held BY August 1, it
is thought, more than two thousand
separate demonstrations by food and
canning experts will have been con-
Quoted in sections Of the state. At
the close of these demonstrations
canning club has been organized with
the result that more than forty thou
sand Iowa women are doing their bit
by canning.
These are some of the tangible re-
suits which show that Iowa is COM
ing across in the present food crisis.
Fowans want to be the first in the
country to show that food production
and conservation will be great help
in trimming the kaiser and his auto
cratic cohort.
I'VE are going some" said r. K
Bliss today. "But we are just start
ing. The country will know Iowa is
in the fight to stay in. At present
we are busy planning big seed cam
paign this fall"