Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1911 — BARNARD WILL TALK ABOUT CONSERVATION. [ARTICLE]

BARNARD WILL TALK ABOUT CONSERVATION.

was usually some place out in bleak and impossible Alaska or on the barwhere the plots' were laid about which has been done. For these reasons the average Hoosier-has been mighty little concerned in this great but newborn issue.-However, comes now an Indiana man himself and mentions conservation in a way which means something real to the folks here a* home. The man who has put some local interest into conservation is H. E. Barnard, the state chemist. A dispatch from Indianapolis says that the owners of farm lands in Indiana will have an opportunity to hear some talks c.n practical conservation of resources on October 29, if Harry.E. Barnard, who recently represented the state in the national conservation convention, at Kansas City is able to put through a plan which he has laid before Governor Marshall. Mr. Barnaqi, who has made a reputation throughout the state as state food and drug commissioner, has little patience with the conservationists who give all their attention to trying to replace the forests of the state. ( “What is needed,” said Mr. Barpard, “is a rejuvenation of the soil in order that the farmer may get from his land What he realy ought toriiave. We are rapidly,’'in Indiana, solving the question of the middleman and his effect on high prices. Now it is up to somebody to lead the farmer to make the most of his land.” It is Mr. Barnard’s plan to have Oct. 29 observed in Indianapolis as a conservation day, and to have as many land owners as possible attend. He would prepare a program of four parts —soil fertility, soil erosion and soil waste, rotation of crops, and the proper, use of sewage and other wasts as fertilizer. “If the farmer could be awakened to a realization of what can be. accomplished by a study of these four subjects,” said Mr. Barnard, “the annual crop of grains and food stuffs in the crop of grain and food stuffs in Indiana would be doubled. Teach the farmer |o doctor his soil so it will raise, more food stuffs, then arrange things no he can get it to the consumer, and the high cost of living problem will be solved. We are raising twenty bushels of wheat now where we ought to be raising forty, and twenty bushels of potatoes where we ought to be raising fifty.” Governor Marshall has given the project some thought, and it is believed he will put his shottlder to the movement.