Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 10, 1914, Page 9

A > <o UNITE PROMINENT ’ & TO ASSIST IN THE WORK — —— \ oo, \gricuftural Extension Department to Aid Any Community Inter- ested in Conducting Campaign to Encourage the Growing of | Alfalfa—~Live Stock, Silos, More Pastures and a Better Sys- VDE; tem of Crop Rotation Will Be Urged. ; LDINg ACLors 10 for 1. e Satisfy \lfalfa Automobile Trains Important Feature of the Work—Schedules to Be Arranged and Meetings to Be Held the work, VDE; The campaign will be conducted in co-operation with farmers’ institutes, | ‘to Accompany Each Alfalfa Train—Organizations Wil Be Formed in Each Community to Promote the Work—Field Men Sxperienced in Alfalfa Growing Will Follow Up Preliminary Work Wherever Possible and Give Ald In Getting a Start—Prof. P. G. Holden, Director Extension Department, ‘International Harvester Company of New Jersey, Chicago, Will direct EN PLANS CAMPAIGN | ~~FOR DIVERSIFIEL AGRICULTURE INTERESTS IN SOUTH at Farm Homes—Prominent Speakers sankers, buginess men, farmers, commercial clubs, granges, live stock and | ” alry associations and other organizations in any community where the peo- | sle are anxious to improve their agricultural conditions and are willing to] —3ive time'and money to carry on the work. Bmmm County and city superintendents of schools, colleges, institute workers, Shautapqua lecturers, and others interested in the work will be assisted in btaining alfalfa charts and lantern slides. ziven wide distribution throughout the country. Literature and booklets will be Special alfalfa articles will e ‘sent to farm journals and magazines, and plate and matrix pages to news- sapers. Special ecitions of newspapers will be published where campaigns we conducted. Dates will be arranged for “Alfalfa Day” in the schools. To VBegIn Campaign Work In Cotton Belt Immediately. Work to be started immesiately in the cotton belt states and in the 2ast and west. aral use. Professor Holden proposes to carry these principles further even than :he very effective work done on the agricultural trains, by using that most ( modern vehicle—the automobile—going directly to the people on their own tarms where the meetings are to be held. Alfalfa Greatest Soil-Enriching Crop. Agricultural development needs in addition to the work of our publie | institutions, the individual efforts of every merchant, banker, corporation, or nd this plan calls for their heartiest co-operation. This plan for increasing the yields of our crops by the more extensive | growing of that wouderful soil improver, ALFALFA, is meeting the approval | any knowledge of the beneficial results of its introduction D WANI laboring man, a , wasn:1 all men who b 18 .a general crop. nareuL Campaigns arc now tates, and Prof he Cu) organizing other iccalitics, i amunity interestcd and §l; Where camjui m———made to the Ag a Ba‘ the campaign. o Itu (1) Expen:: 0 Fayapon thefr ‘arrival and du i (2) Where the campa and invited guests; onc auto truck to sther equipment. he Lar es int! & PH( (6) Local advertising. (6) Photographer, if possible. (2) Lecturers. (8) Literature. - being conducted in many of the central western or Holden is daily answering and invites cordial co-operation with every com- ro contemplated it is required, first, that a request be P Extension Dej What the loca! people will provide: and lodging) for the alialfa speakers and stafl | the campaign. . s are conducted by automobiles alone, from ten )C. Lto twenty automobiles for each day of the campaign to carry the alfalfa crew (3) Where the campaigns are carried on in co-operation with the rnfl-I ,,roads, aufomobiles and railroad equipment must be furnished. (4) Arrange for meeting places and publish schedule of same. Thirty to forty meetings will be held in cach county, the Number dependin, on local conditions. To accomplish the most in agricultural development, we must begin i with the man behind the crop. Upon him depends the final working out of | 'A the principles of agriculture—the simple and practical things—which our 5 u:hooll,' colleges and experiment stations are endeavoring to bring into gen- | cquests for his assistance in vartment for assistance in carrying on | carry literature, baggage, charts, and | The Agricultural Extension Department will provide: (1) Advance men to assist in organization work. (4) Special educational articles for newspapers and farm journals pertl- nent to alfalfa culture, object of campalgn, etc. (5) Field men to follow up the preliminary work and aid the people in _any community where sufficient interest is shown to warrant it. s will i lr s"ml‘oflln' Literaturg to Be Sent Out Phases .of Agriculture and Other sle at large than all other things. It cultural and industrial education is d may ‘partment of the International Harvest- _efficiency of the peopte, who are till- The work of the department is car- 56-47¢ ple, 'and @BSisting (i o their homes NICL DISTRIBUTE EDUCATIONAL BOOKLETS By the I. H. C. Extension Depart- bri ment—Books Dealing With Many ) " Subjects. ncrt Agriculture means more to the peo- s the most vital subject now holding the public mind. The work of agri- plays 278 very large and a very important pigys work. The Agricultural Extension De- | moneer company of New Jersey was or- ganized to develop the agricultural atird ypg the goll and producing the crops upon which we live. rled®n in many ways. First, by go- ing direet to the lomes of the peo-| with their problems. Another method is the dissemina- "torfln of educational literature. The v U department has o jreent for dis ‘fof.t“l'm"'l numlor of interesting booklets covering many phases of ag- . .riculture @nd other subje all of o which: are of special ii on ac- )Is W € count of their educaticnal value, They o, sid «/are not for sale, hut will be sent any- kge.\b «where at the cost of postage or ex- the st press gnd may be obtained by writing the Extension D 1t, Harvester w: building, Chicaco. = No. 1=Thc Story of Bread—An in- teresting story ol the v 1d strug- ywn — . gle for cheap brend e copy cents; In quantitics, 2 cents per copy lw? No. 2=Creeds cf Creat Business Men—A serics of sket of men : who have helped to make business ) -+- what ft 48 today. Single copy, 5 cents; | in quantities, © cents No. 3=The Go' ‘en Stream—A pl ‘ everyday textbork on the phases of dzirving. Sinzle copy, cents; in guantities, 2 ¢ ‘LA' No. 4=For Cctter Crops—A collec- tion of valuable sles on farm sub- jects. Sinele copy. 6 cents; in quan- ——= tities, 3 cent:. — No, 5—The Story of Twine traces briefly ain. | This the manufacture of | IS | Single copy, 50 cents; in quantities, cents | No. 177—The I. H. C. Demonstration , Farms—Giving the ) eri ments the south Twen copy 2 cents in quan Beside s named above, | from ere will be d| other gricu'tural booklets | pertinent t I varts of the United St ues will treat twine. Single copy, 3 cents; in quan- tities, 2 cents. No. 6—Engine Operator's Guide— Tells all about how to operate, re- pair and keep in good condition a gasoline engine. Single copy, 3 cents; in quantities, 2 cents. No. 7—The Cattle Tick—The best way for getting rid of it. Single copy, 2 cents; in quantities, 1 cent. No. 8—For Better Crops in the South—Deals with crops and condi- tions in the south. Single copy, 4 cents; in quantities, 3 cents. No. 2—The Disk Harrow—Shows the part disking plays in crop pro- duction. Single copy, 4 cents; in quantities, 2 cents. No. 10—The Binder Twine Industry —A story of the process used in mak- ing binder twine. Single copy, 20 cents; in quantities, 15 cents. No. 11—Harvest 8cenes of the World—A 150-page book, handsomely bound, and printed in two oolors, showing harvesting in many cowntries. 35 cents. No. 12—Alfalfa in the Cotton Belt— How to get a stand of Alfalfa in the south. Single copy 2 cents; in quan- tities 1 cent No. 13—Diversified Farming in the Cotton - Belt—A fifty page booklet. Single copy 4 cents; in qua:tities 2 cents. No. 14—For Better Corn in the Cot- ton Belt—Single copy 2 ceuts; in| quantities 1 cent ’ No. 15—The Boll Weevil—A thirty- | six page booklet. Single copy t cents; , in quantities 2 cents | | No. 16—Sweet Clover—Its agricul- tural value. Thirty-two pag book. » copy 4 cents; in quantities 2 | | such subjec oy beans, | peanuts, velvet be , Sugar cane, } silos, feeds and feeding, weeds and | insects, etc. i to New EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., MARCH 10, 1914. 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