Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1913 — WRITER TO FARMER IS GOING ABROAD [ARTICLE]

WRITER TO FARMER IS GOING ABROAD

George Ade Interviewed in New York 1 While, Enroute to Paris— Crops Supplant Literature. New York, June 23.—George Ade arrived here in a new role today. He plans to sail for Eufope on fchte Imperator Wednesday. This time he is not going abroad as a humorist and writer to hunt for local color for a story or a comic opera, but as an Indiana agriculturist, Whose corn and oats have done so well by him that he looks forward for a restful two months to he divided between a motor trip through the chateau district of‘France and a study of the “little horses,” menu cards and automobile tariffs that help to make a season at a Les Baines. Agriculturist Ade was discovered at the Waldorf welcoming Thomas Taggart and other Indiana statesmen. In one brief sentence Mr. Ade disposed of any suggestion that he was working. He confessed to being a trustee of PuTdue University, of which tie is alumnus, and to being tremendously interested in the establishment of an agricultural department of that institution. Questioning drew a statement from Mr. Ade that unlike many persons in New work Who have "farms” in the country hereabouts, he doesn’t have to keep writing in order to keep his farm going. He said he had one of the finest crops of corn and oats this year that he had ever seen and spoke of the tremendous advance in the price of farms in Indiana since he went back to the land fifteen years ago, though he modestly depreciated a suggestion that that venture might have had anything to do with raising the price from SSO to S2OO an acre. “What has undoubtedly put up the price of land in Indiana so enormously is that It has been decided that the com belt can not extend further,” said Mr. Ade. “Beef is high and corn is.Jiigh, and it looks as if neither was going to be any cheaper. I happen to he a trustee of Purdue and we have decided to go extensively into agricultural education. We have had two government experts out there laying out plots of ground for ex perimental purposes and there Is considerable enthusiasm over the ■work. An exodus from the city to the farm Is bound to come.”