Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1911 — BANKERS AIM TO SAVE SOIL [ARTICLE]

BANKERS AIM TO SAVE SOIL

Every Farmer In Illinois to Be Reached 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 O. Hopkins, chief in agronomy, are advancing the campaign through the Bankers’ association of Illinois. There are 1,480 banks behind the movement for preservation, of the richness of the soil of Illinois. Fifty thousand farmers are to be reached in th# first move of the cam- I palgn. That is tbe number of the first edition of “Saving the Soil,” a new booklet, by l?r. 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 tople, will be 500.000 folders. ■