Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1919 — Another Way to Help. [ARTICLE]

Another Way to Help.

. Every farmer will be asked how many acres of drained land he has and how many other acres of land there are on his farm thati could be made suitable for cultivation if they were tile-drained or ditch-drained. When these questions are asked you, remember that they are asked every one of your neighbors. Possibly you have a tract of land that' would- be the most productlvlTTleld on your farm if you could get the surplus water out of it, but you can not doit because, to be effective, the drainage ditch would have to go far beyond the. borders of your own farm, would have to be a county enterprise, and the county has not seen fit to do anything about it. If that be true, several of your neighbors have' land that should be drained. If all of* you tell the census enumerator how many acres you have that need drainage, the department of agriculture will have the facts to show what is needed in your community. When the opportunity offers, 4t wiU be -ta position to do what it may to secure for you what you need. Those things are fairly typical of the questions that will be asked in taking the agricultural census. In order to answer all of the questions intelligently, the farmer will have to think about the matter a little before the enumerator calls on him. He ought to give the enumerator the most accurate information he can. What the individual farmer tells the enumerator is likely to benefit any number of other farthers. It is not too early now to get the facts- straight In your mind.