Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1911 — BANKERS AIM TO SAVE SOIL [ARTICLE]

BANKERS AIM TO SAVE SOIL

Every Farmer In Illinois to Be Readied by Copy of Dr. Hopkins' Printed Wisdom. * Chicago.—lllinois has become the center of a great movement for the advance of scientific farming. Experts of the University of Illinois, led by Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins, chief la agronomy, sow advancing the cant* paign through the Bankers’ association of Illinois. There are 1,480 banka; behind the movement for preservation of the richness of the soil of Illinois. Fifty thousand farmers are to be reached in the first move es the earn paign. That la the number of the first edition of "Saving the Soil," a new booklet, by Dr. Hopkins, issued for distribution in every city and village in the state, and sent out today through the bankers’ organization. Secretary Richard L. Crampton of the association announced the next issue, on another agricultural topic, will be 500,000 folders. V