Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1909 — THE HUNGER FOR LAND [ARTICLE]

THE HUNGER FOR LAND

Measures of the Government * to Appease the Appetites for Farms. A Wonderful Exhibit by the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture at the United States Land and Irrigation Exposition at Chicago from Nov. 20th to Dec. 4th. A debt of gratitude and a vote of thanks will be due the Chicago Tribune from the American people when the United States Land and Irrigation Exposition is over. The inception of this great undertaking was entirely dre to the Tribune. The idea origJnf.ted with the Tribune, and the entire responsibility, financial and otherwise, was assumed by the Tribune. So timely did this enterprise seem to be that all the great irrigation and other land interests were quickly won and promised their participation and support. The United States government has thought so well of the Tribune’s idea that it will be the largest exhibitor. All the exhibits of the exposition will deal with Jhe idea of establishing American hpmes upon small farms. All the features of this unique and wonderful show will be pivoted around the idea that the best place for an American family is in a home of its own, and that home a tract of land large .enough to maintain the family in any emergency. With our better knowledge of plants and soils and cultural practices a few acres have an astonishing capacity for production. Valuable instruction along these lines will be found by the visitor at the coming exposition, Nov. 20 to Dec. 4. at Chicago’s great Coliseum. Besides the features specially prepared and brought from Washington, the best features of the government’s exhibit at Seattle will be in stalled at Chicago. The reclamation service, the geological survey, the land office, the forestry service, the patent office, the bureau of animal industry, the bureau of plant industry, the weather bureau, the office of experiment stations and the bureau of entomology will all participate in a manner worthy of the govenment of eighty million people. The value of the government exhibits to the visitor will lie in the fact that they are new and represent the latest thought and development in the various lines which they represent. All will relate to Irrigation! drainage, dry farming and to the Industries of the farm, especially of the new farms which are being reclaimed from what has long been regarded as waste land.