Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Corn "Exposition. :£s "head or trie extension department of lowa State College of Agriculture he did a work which, Senator Cummins says, up to the present time has increased the wealth of lowa $30,000,000. The object of the I H C Service Bureau is the promotion es agricultural education, and a co-operation which will tend to raise the whole tone of commercial, industrial and farm life. Since agriculture is the basis of prosperity and progress, naturally farm problems claim first attention. The aim is higher efficiency, both on and ofT the farm. To do a big work a big organization Is necessary. Not only the bigness, but the perfection of the International organization as well appealed to Professor Holden. The big general agencies, scattered all over the United States and Canada; the salesmen, travelers and expert machine men; the 40,W0 dealers—every one, so far as possible, is to be made an apostle of better farming. For years the International Harvester Company has realized the Importance of service. It has spent millions of dollars in the perfection of la-bor-saving machines, and now the company is going in for direct service —direct to the farmers, and direct to the farmers’ children, that the men and women of tomorrow may be more capable and so more prosperous than the men and women of today. It is no longer a theory that if we ftre to get the most out of life we must raise more per acre. “Intensive farming” is in the air. It is the battle cry of peace and plenty. But raising more is the result’ of mind, not muscle. We must know. And not only that, we must Know we know, and know why we know. We must know good seed from bad, right cultivation from wrong, and the whys and wherefors of climates, soils, fruits, cattle, horses, poultry, and so forth. ’ j, For these things the bureau was established. But the bureau i and Professor Holden see more than an average increase of a few bushels. They see a time coming when farmers will raise twice as many bushels of corn, wheat and oats to the acre, and like yields of all other kinds of farm products. They see a time when farmers and farmers’ wives and their children will think more and work less. Every bushel raised means just that much profit, and the profits of the farm promote commerce and Industry. After a period of good work in Michigan agricultural college, better work at Illinois, and n great work at lowa, Professor Holden now enters upon a world’s work. While In future Professor Holden will designate Chicago as home, he says he is not leaving lowa —he is merely carrjing lowa to the jreßt of the world. . Advertisement.