Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1917 — ROTATION LEASES. [ARTICLE]

ROTATION LEASES.

[National Crop Improvement Service.] There is nothing which endangers America so much today as our very much abused farm tenant system. We ought to have something in every lease which will protect land and protect the people as well as posterity. Year to year tenants who scratch a little and move away, should be compelled to settle down and landlords should be be compelled to make a time rotation lease. It is easy to talk about compelling this and compelling that, but we mostly are a very sloppy people whose motto is “the easiest way is the best.” If we let our soil run down, our whole structure will fall. In order to obtain a larger yield of grain, this soil must be fed. The colleges and experiment stations beyoftd the Mississippi river are entire!y®4oo timid ; about preaching soil conservation. In fact, all of us are rather prone to tell our audience what we think they would rather hear,