Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1917 — NEXT YEAR’S CROP [ARTICLE]

NEXT YEAR’S CROP

Let Us Begin Now to Organize for More Prosperity! [National Crop Improvement Service.] It is one of our American traits to speed up to high tension for a few days and then to relapse into our old "easy-going” habits. If we can only learn by experience that we must organize against emergencies of all kinds for peace and war. this excitement will not have been in vain. It will do little good to shout at the farmer through a megaphone. He knows his business and is doing just as good as he can under the circumstances. If there is any improvement to be made, it is to improve circumstances. Our prosperity-depends upon the prosperity of the- farmers and it is our duty to get him the best price possible consistent with quality. If we want the farmer to do better, we must do better by him. However, he can find no complaint about the present prices nor for several years to come. We may be too late to do very much more this spring, although we still have barley, corn and potatoes to put into the ground. We should organize for service in this county and get ready for early fall plowing after harvest