Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1908 — Congressman Has Plan to Help Fanners [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Congressman Has Plan to Help Fanners

Representative scott of Kansas, chairman of the house committee on agriculture, has conceived a novel plan which, he believes, | would enable the fanners of the country to produce better and far larger crops than heretofore. Mr. Scott's proposition involves the establishment of 100 experimental farms, of one acre each, In every county In a group of four western agricultural states for the purpose of giving the farmers a practical demonstration of the best methods growing different crops. It is proposed that the lands for this purpose shall be provided by the farmers themselves and that they shall do the work of cultivation under the direction of the experts of the department of agriculture. No additional appropriation from congress will be required to test Mr. .Scott’s plan, it is explained, as the agricultural department has the requisite number of experts to carry it out. Mr. Scott asserts that enough money fti being wasted by the department in oat farm bulletins and other

government documents to carry out his Idea. He says that much valuable information has been given by the experts in these publications, but their contents are so little understood by the farmers that they do not derive the knowledge from them which they should obtain as to the best methods of growing com, wheat, hay and other crops. '