The courier-index., 1920-05-21
||FlRN TRIP WAS
 1 4 HUGE SUCCESS
.,,xry AGENT E. B. WHITAKER WRITES ABOUT SOME or ns HE THINGS SEEN IN ILLINOIS, IOWA AND MISSOURI.

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 = R. Whitaker, County Agent 'Dy T,a Lee county delegation who
 on the Profitable Farming ,."r s returned to Marianna Monday s,orning ."1, enthusiastic over the trip m I loud in their praise of the re anu u.ion given them at every place cepslUd| psOd The party left Little Rock vlslIeu. snecial Pullmans Saturday m ,.t s"' The first day out was spent nsSt' sSt Louis. Monday was spent at III m.,;uo Hv Ill. as guests of the John naaro mvr and Moline blow companies. ysI;ne vs1io is the largest manufacturing lu4ar Mv.a of farming machinery Tn the warld. vun The party was conducted ,S,augh the factory of the Jonn nasra n,vp' Flow company, saw blows of .n yIs, s;qes and shapes in process of sn snnstruction and wound up on the .On floor of the factory where a .opwnlete .op line of John Deere farm msehinery was exhibited. It was ,us ,us;1a m this floor sthat they were s;vsn rS lecture. by one of the best sS srnerts on the John Deere staff. Tbe John Deere Flow Company ships nractically "A carloads of farm ma rbinery every day and of course the system system that they employ in getting ti;s work done is nothing less than wonderful. From the John Deere factory they visited the tractor fac 1 tov of the Moline Flow Company. l Here they were shown every step iI the manufacture of this tractor from the pig iron to the finished tractor being loaded for shipment. In the afternoon the party visited 1 the demonstration farm of the John Deere Flow Company where all ] makes of blows, tractors and cultiva- tors were shown in operation. In 1 the evening they were the guests of ] the Moline After Dinner Club at banquet which was greatly en- EjOyed. =
 Tuesday was spent as the guests l of the Davenport Chamber of Com merce and the Scott County Farm 1 Bureau A drive of seventy-five miles was made through the coun- try and stops at twelve of the typi- cal farms along the route. Prize winning herds of Gernseys, Jerseys and Holstein cattle were seen. In practically every field were seen men blowing. For the most part they were working five horses, and in no case were they using less than three, unless they were check ing corn. In one field there was a man driving five horses to a gang blow and leading three more hitched to harrow. These farm hands are paid 5000 a month and board thus it is necessary that they util- le their time to the utmost. The farmers in this section have good fences, good homes, good outbuild. lngS they do not work hard but they do work regularly. There is no waste land, no unnecessary shade Iees and all machinery was under sheds. They all seemed happy and eontented, but it is fact that they oo not make large return on the money invested-10 per cent is an exception rather than the rule. If Oae or them would come to Lee county and work as regularly as he , mas done in Iowa he would make wv per cent and maybe more. Tn oae small town of 132 people, there ase TWO banks with total deposits " aoout million and half dol ss' From this same town the, snlp Tour thousand dozen eggs . "esA' Few farmers borrow money ana aaa every one lives well. The party aOaceo Tn particular that there was ts sv' scrub chicken in the county a. Ia, as they could see.
 me party were guests at a ban. G,es. sss tuesday night given by the t1o ,sa,er Davenport Committee ot me.. % davenport Chamber of Com. ios0S %slce' This affair was greatly en ''iru wand ana very much appreciated.
 v;.;., .;".,euhesday was spent at Anne. In I,ns sn;s 'ae state agricultural school all 'plte a Of the fact that it rainec OlsrS say, the party carried out it. terast ana G, visited all points of in
 as s This is the greatest college hsvira i"ul'ure In the United States worth of many h'i!y, millions of dollars nent 0I buildings, barns and equip hushsraw wonderful lessons in poultr, ystorsu. were impressed on the ] floeI every hen in the college mads was an individual who hae herself record of over 200 egg. had don or was out of a hen whG prOfessSon"e Sne as much or more. The by proNa, m charge explained how up lT, S;a selection, one could builC Very sbnsg. b"'gh producing flock in z done i in h tune. The work being dairy ba.l Im building up a profitable sres wsN uerd by the use of purebree party fron, very interesting to the foundat;oni Arkansas in that tho came "s,on sro stock of scrub COW, ago s tAi rom this state '1Ten Tan sao COW Y Arkansas Ames College bought sever county. co Tbosas To@s from Hampstead 70 Ames anS nsSe cows were shipped crossed on aaI t1 purebred dairy bull
 suits are ou then, them. The following re
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