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 O country can become richer than 
 its lands. From the soil comes 
 our food and clothing, ; all other 
 human needs are subordinate 
 to these. Food is the chief material con- 
 cern of life — its production the most 
 important occupation. In the hard school 
 of experience we are slowly learning the 
 lesson of real business economy — the 
 g,reatest lesson of all time — that of feeding 
 ourselves. Let us learn that lesson Nvell. 
 
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 I 389885 EVERY FARM A FACTORY \ 
 
 HE opportunity of the town lies in the country. The country can | 
 
 get along without the town, but no town ever has or ever will be | 
 
 permanently prosperous where the land is poor. The town is built | 
 
 on farm profits; on what farmers produce in excess of their home | 
 
 needs. In fact, towns are liabilities, not assets — consumers, not | 
 
 legitimate producers. Towns are the natural evolution and out- | 
 
 growth of necessity — places' to store and distribute the world's sur- | 
 
 plus products through the channels of commerce. There is but | 
 
 I one road to permanent city building — that road leads to the farm. Business is | 
 
 i so sympathetic, so sensitive to crop production, that the forecast of a poor wheat | 
 
 I or corn crop affects the markets of the world. When the harvest fields smile, | 
 
 I towns wax fat, and factories increase the pay roll. Com, wheat, and hay, beef, | 
 
 I pork, and poultry — these are the soil builders, the home builders, the builders | 
 
 I of great cities. | 
 
 I The old fashioned Chamber of Corrmerce, with its cash bonuses and free | 
 
 I factory sites, is rapidly passing away. Instead of grabbing business from each | 
 
 I other, towns are beginning to look to the country, out in the fields of growing com | 
 
 I and wheat and hay. Here lies the opportunity ; — for the great city, strange as it j 
 
 I may seem, is out in the country, hidden in the fertility of the soil. A successful | 
 
 I hay campaign will bring factories to the town. Hay means beef and pork, which | 
 
 I beckon the packing house and storage plant. More corn means cereal mills, | 
 
 I glucose factories, starch factories. Flour mills locate in wheat producing sec- | 
 
 I tions. Creameries follow the dairy cow, and the truck patch calls for the | 
 
 I canning factory. ^ | 
 
 I Let us have more Chambers of Agriculture and Commerce and fewer "Com- | 
 
 I mercial Clubs." Let us create wealth from the opportunities at home, and not | 
 
 I subtract it from other communities. 1 
 
 I We must not forget that every farm is a factory, and that in every state | 
 
 I there are thousands of these factories which need our best thought and effort | 
 
 I to make them productive. | 
 
 I The purpose of this publication is to create a deeper interest among the | 
 
 I members of Chambers of Commerce and other organizations in their agricultural | 
 
 I and commercial problems. The attention of the reader is called to what Ala- | 
 
 I bama, Arkansas, Texas and other states are doing in this direction. What j 
 
 I these states have done, your state can do. | 
 
 I We will furnish speakers and competent men to assist you in organ- | 
 
 I izing and conducting agricultural campaigns. We will plan and work | 
 
 I with you in whatever stands for the development of your community, | 
 
 I county, or state. „ , = 
 
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 AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION TO THE FARM HOME 
 
 NITED STATES MAP showing co-operative field work of the Ajfricultural Extension Department of the Inter- 
 national Harvester Company from January, 1913, to April, 1915. 
 
 Each dot indicates a meeting. Two-thirds of the meetings shown on the map were held at farm homes — a 
 greater portion of them out in the fields. 
 
 BLACK DOTS indicate meetings held during agricultural campaigns ; RED DOTS, meetings held by school superin- 
 tendents, teachers, farm demonstrators and others using I H C lecture charts and lantern slides furnished by the 
 Agricultural Extension Department. 
 
 SUMMARY 
 
 Campaign meetings (black dots) 6,760 
 
 Chart and lantern slide meetings (red dots) 4,000 
 
 Total number of meetings held 10,760 
 
 Attendance 1,687,000 
 
 Miles traveled on railroads 669,000 
 
 Miles traveled by automobiles and buggies over country roads 158,000 
 
 Chart and Lantern Slide Lectures 4,000 
 
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THE ARKANSAS PROFITABLE FARMING CAMPAIGN 
 
 FORCES CO-OPERATING 
 
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 Agricultural and Mechanical College. District Agricultural 
 High Schools, U.S. Farm Demonstrators, Fanners' Union.Cham- 
 bers of Commerce in 49 Counties, Young Men's Business As- 
 sociations, State Bankers" Association, State Press Association, 
 State Superintendent of Education, Southwestern Telephone 
 Company, "Western Newspaper Union; All the Railroads of 
 the State, — conducted under the auspices of the Little Rock 
 Chamber of Commerce, directed by the Agricultural Extcnsipn 
 Department of the International Harvester Company of New 
 Jersey, Chicago, U. S. A. 
 
 Nov. 10 to Dec. 12 
 1914 
 
 SUMMARY 
 
 Number of counties in which meetings were held 49 
 
 Total number of meetings (each star indicates a meeting) 1,324 
 
 Attendance (the greater portion of which were farmers) 130,000 
 
 Pieces of literature distributed (no advertising matter) 362,000 
 
 Railroad miles traveled 20,858 
 
 Miles traveled by auto and buggy 8,115 
 
 Speakers and organizers engaged in the work d 
 
 Four 
 
ARKANSAS TURNS HER MISTAKES TO PROFIT 
 
 Organized Effort on the Part of Agricultural, Educational, and Commercial Interests of the State 
 Aimed at the One-Crop System — 40 Years of Cotton Growing Brings Arkansas to a Realization of 
 Her Mistakes — A Great Empire, Rich in Natural Resources But People Must Take Advantage of 
 their Opportunities — Must Diversify Crops, Grow Live Stock, and Feed Herself — Business Men 
 Raise $25,000 to Finance Boys and Girls in the Purchase of Pigs and Poultry. 
 
 I HE farmers of Arkansas have been 
 growing cotton for nearly forty years — 
 growing it to sell for money to buy food 
 for man and animal. Think of forty 
 years of the one-crop system with its debts and 
 mortgages, disappointments and failures. The 
 practice of this system has placed Arkansas at 
 the mercy of the north and east, both in buying and 
 in selling. The cotton crop in 1913 was sold for 
 $63,000,000. This amount and $12,000,000 more 
 were sent out of the state to buy foodstuffs which 
 should have been produced on Arkansas farms. 
 This has been the practice of the cotton grower 
 year after year. 
 
 Under normal conditions this system of trading soil 
 fertility for food might have continued until the needs 
 of the people became more pressing, but the dis- 
 turbed cotton market caused by the war brought 
 the merchants and farmers to the realization of a 
 serious condition. 
 
 The cotton market forced the necessity for imme- 
 diate action upon farmer, merchant, and banker. 
 
 At a meeting held in Little Rock, upon the call 
 Governor Hays, the plan was suggested to reduce 
 the cotton acreage by law, provided a majority of 
 the southern governors would agree to call a con- 
 ference to discuss the enactment of remedial legis- 
 lation uniform throughout the southern states. 
 The result of this conference was a resolution recom- 
 mending the reduction of at least 50% of the cotton 
 acreage in Arkansas. The conference also favored 
 Federal aid. But United States Senator James P. 
 Clarke said: "There is no use asking Washington 
 to help you. Washington cannot help you any 
 more. This is a problem for the people of Arkan- 
 sas to handle." 
 
 Following this, early in November, 1914, the 
 Little Rock Chamber of Commerce, State Bank- 
 ers' Association, Iron Mountain Railroad, and many 
 
 other prominent interests invited Professor P. G. 
 Holden of the Agricultural Extension Department 
 of the International Harvester Company to come 
 to Arkansas and direct a state-wide agricultural 
 campaign. 
 
 The purpose of this campaign was to impress on 
 the people the necessity of making Arkansas farms 
 feed Arkansas people; to have something to sell 
 every week in the year and keep the proceeds of 
 the cotton crop at home; to get rid of the cattle 
 tick; have more pastures; grow cattle, hogs, poul- 
 try, and to have a garden for every home; to have 
 good schools; good roads; and a million new peo- 
 ple to occupy the farms and cities of Arkansas. 
 
 Professor Holden responded to the call. With a 
 staff of thirty practical men, organization work in 
 this movement was begun in November. The 
 campaign was carried on for a period of 35 days; 
 1,324 meetings were held in 49 different counties, 
 covering the entire cotton belt of the state. (See 
 Map.) The business men did not ask the farmers 
 to come to town to hear the lecturers, but in 500 
 different communities throughout the territory cov- 
 ered, campaign committees were organized and 
 automobiles and buggies were donated by the peo- 
 ple to carry the speakers into the country to 
 hold meetings on the farms. The campaign was 
 carried to the people, the people were not asked 
 to come to the campaign. 130,000 people attended 
 the meetings. 
 
 During this campaign Professor Holden said: 
 
 "I do not know of any one thing that will do 
 more to make Arkansas a greater state than for 
 the business men to finance every boy and girl in 
 the state to buy a pig and some chickens. 
 
 After the campaign was over this plan was fol- 
 lowed out; $25,000 was raised and today hundreds 
 of boys and girls have been financed by the busi- 
 ness men of Arkansas, and are purchasing pigs and 
 chickens as fast as the transactions can be made. 
 
 Five 
 
ARKANSAS TURNS HER MISTAKES TO PROFIT 
 
 Each boy or girl must give a note for one year, 
 bearing 6% interest from date, secured by a con- 
 tract to pay the obligation from the profits of the 
 investment. It is the first step for Arkansas into 
 a practical system of diversified farming and the 
 school children are leading the way. 
 
 GENERAL BUSINESS MEN'S COMMITTEE 
 
 Ex-Gov. Geo. W. Donaghey, Jno. M. Davis, Max Heiman, 
 W. E. Lenon, Bishop Jno. B. Morris, B. P. Kidd, Joe L. 
 Schaer, Guy Smith, Gordon N. Peay, T. W. Newton, W. R. 
 Beattie, H. M. Cottrell, Geo. W. Rogers, R. M. McWilliams, 
 W. S. Holt, Mark^ Valentine, Sam Henderson, Moorhead 
 Wright, C. O. Carpenter, Gov. Geo. W. Hays, H. M. Ben- 
 nett, J. S. Braddock, Jr., Fred Heiskell, J. R. Alexander, 
 
 Carl J. Baer, J. T. Jarrell, C. W. Watson, H. L. Remmel, 
 J. B. Dickinson, J. T. Beal, D. C. Welty, M. B. McNeely, 
 H. F. Auten, Martin Nelson, E. J. Bodman, E. T. Tobey, 
 Mayor Chas. E. Taylor, H. H. Tucker, J. E. Lightle, Robert 
 E. Wait, C. J. Griffith, A. C. Read, Judge Joe Asher, H. S. 
 Mobley, Jno. H. Page, J. C. Conway, W. A. Hicks. 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
 
 E. J. Bodman, Chairman, Carl J. Baer, Secretary, Geo. 
 W. Rogers, Ex-Gov. Geo. W. Donaghey, Moorhead Wright, 
 Fred Heiskell, H. M. Bennett, Max Heiman, H. H. Tucker, 
 Judge Joe Asher, H. F. Auten, C. W. Watson. 
 
 PUBLICITY COMMITTEE "1 
 
 Fred Heiskell, Chairman, Elmer E. Clarke, Geo. B. Cook, 
 John Ginocchio, A. D. Murlin, V. N. Beeson, E. N. Hop- 
 kins, Geo. R. Brown, Clio Harper, J. C. Small, E. C. John- 
 
 SOME RESULTS OF THE ARKANSAS CAMPAIGN 
 
 C. C. KIRKPATRICK 
 Arkansas Profitable Farming Campaign Committee, Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 O SHOW the benefits of the Diversified 
 Farming Campaign conducted in Arkan- 
 sas, the campaign committee points out 
 a few of the things accomplished . 
 1st. Bankers and business men have advanced 
 $25,000 through the County Profitable Fanning 
 Club for the organization of Pig and Poultry Clubs 
 throughout the state. 
 
 2nd. The Committee is directly responsible for 
 saving Arkansas' appropriation of $1 15,000 for agri- 
 cultural work under the provisions of the Smith- 
 Lever bill. This alone is worth many, many times 
 the cost of the campaign for this money is the 
 backbone of the work for agricultural development 
 in Arkansas. 
 
 3rd. Cotton acreage has been reduced about 
 15% to 20% for 1915 and food crops have been 
 planted on these acres. 
 
 4th. Out of seventy-five counties in Arkansas, 
 all except eighteen have declared for Tick Eradica- 
 tion. This means that more than two-thirds of 
 the state will be free from cattle ticks at the close 
 of this year. Before the beginning of the Profitable 
 Farming Campaign, two-thirds of the state was in 
 tick infested territory. 
 
 5th. More gardens have been planted this year 
 in Arkansas than ever before in the history of the 
 state. Some landowners forced the tenants, in 
 their leases, to raise their own meats and vegetables. 
 
 6th. Leading bankers in the larger cities of Ar- 
 kansas are using their advertising space in the 
 newspapers to encourage the growing of live stock. 
 One of the big banks says in its advertisement: 
 "This Bank believes in the Farmer. We will 
 assist you in Securing Thoroughbred Live Stock; 
 Help You Build Silos, and Better Farm Buildings. 
 Remember that cotton constitutes only a part of 
 the farmer's basis of credit." 
 
 7th. The Arkansas Press Association has a per- 
 manent committee which issued weekly and daily 
 bulletins to every newspaper in the state in behalf 
 of better farming. This committee is a part of 
 the Profitable Farming Campaign Committee, and 
 the space is donated by all of the newspapers of 
 the state for this work. 
 
 8th. The State Bankers Association is featuring 
 agricultural development work this year. Each 
 group meeting of bankers has been turned into an 
 agricultural meeting. At the state meeting in Lit- 
 tle Rock, the Profitable Farming Campaign Com- 
 mittee met representatives of banks from every 
 county in Arkansas. 
 
 The Campaign Committee for better farming in 
 each county will be headed by bankers and this 
 committee will have in its membership only farmers, 
 bankers, and merchants who agree in advance to 
 do the work assigned to them. Each county will 
 work out its own problems. 
 
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COTTON REDUCTION IN ARKANSAS ACCORDING TO 
 REPORTS WILL BE GREAT 
 
 EEKLY reports from 54 sections of the 
 state are compiled by C. W. Watson, 
 state agent for the United States De- 
 partment of Agriculture, Little Rock, 
 Arkansas. "These reports," Mr. Watson said, 
 "show an average reduction of from 10 to 15 per 
 cent in the cotton acreage." 
 
 ABANDONS COTTON 
 
 In Ashley County W. F. McCombs' 1,200 acre 
 plantation will be planted exclusively in grain and 
 feed crops. He will have 900 acres in wheat, corn 
 and oats. Also in this county John D. Pugh will 
 plant less than half of his 640 acre farm to cotton. 
 Formerly TS per cent of this farm was in cotton. 
 
 50% CUT IN COTTON ACREAGE 
 
 Many of the larger planters in Pulaski County 
 have reduced their cotton acreages at least half. 
 Perhaps the greatest cut is within the boundaries 
 of the Scott Cotton Growers' Association. There 
 are about 20 planters in this organization. 60,000 
 acres of tillable land are represented. The reduc- 
 tion throughout the association territory is 50 per 
 cent, according to Conoway Scott. 
 
 In Chicot County the Bellevue plantation, 
 managed by Wilson Brothers, will be planted 800 
 acres in cotton, 500 in corn, and 300 in hay. About 
 200 acres will be held for early fall oats, said H. S. 
 Beakes. 
 
 George B. Pugh will plant only half of his 1,000 
 acre farm in Ashley County to cotton. This is a 
 reduction of 25 per cent compared with last year's 
 crop, which was approximately 750 acres. 
 
 "Many of the other planters of this section" he 
 said, "are planting grain and it is my opinion the 
 reduction generally will be 25 per cent." 
 
 WHEAT, OATS AND POTATOES 
 
 Judge W. J. Driver, of Osceola, who is a large 
 planter, said: 
 
 "The cut will be 25 per cent on the average 
 throughout the entire northeast section of the state. 
 
 "The seven counties up here, that we call the best 
 land in Arkansas, will grow wheat, oats and potatoes 
 in many fields for the first time, and the acreage of 
 alfalfa will be increased generally. I believe 20 to 
 25 per cent is a conservative estimate of the extent 
 of the reduction of the cotton acreage." 
 
 O. N. Killough, president of the St. Francis Levee 
 Board and a large planter of eastern Arkansas, said : 
 "Already we have sown many acres in oats and 
 wheat and we are planting much corn. We also 
 will plant more cowpeas and kafir corn than ever 
 before. More than 1,700 bushels of Sudan grass 
 seed have been bought to be sown around Earle, 
 Arkansas, and many farmers who have sown oats 
 will this year sow their land in peas." 
 
 2,500 ACRES IN CORN 
 
 John M. Gracie, 503 East Sixth Street, Little 
 Rock, whose plantation in Jefferson County stretches 
 30 miles along the Arkansas river, said: "Twenty- 
 five per cent is a fair estimate for the reduction 
 throughout Jefferson County. The Richardson- 
 May Land and Planting Company of New Orleans, 
 whose farm adjoins mine, has cut 50 per cent. They 
 are planting 2,500 acres in corn, oats and forage 
 crops. My average cut is about 25 per cent, and 
 in place of cotton I have planted 1,000 acres of oats 
 and smaller tracts of corn, cowpeas " and alfalfa. 
 Several planters of the county have planted much 
 of the land in wheat. Among these are John F. 
 Sennett, L. W. Clements, E. W. Williams and Col. 
 John F. Eldridge. Markham Brothers have planted 
 100 acres in Irish potatoes. Mr. Boyce has 400 
 acres largely in alfalfa and cowpeas. Mr. Harrison 
 has half of his 700 acre farm in corn, oats and 
 alfalfa." 
 
 Lee Andrews, another of the Jefferson County 
 planters, reported that in his section the reduction 
 is about 20 per cent. 
 
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LOCAL PEOPLE BELIEVE CAMPAIGN MARKS NEW ERA 
 
 A PIG FOR EVERY BOY 
 
 " I am taking the liberty of writing you about the Arkansas 
 Profitable Farming Campaign recently carried to a successful 
 issue in our County. An organization has been formed in 
 our city, in connection with the Business Men's Club, to be 
 known as the Pig and Poultry Club, and it is the intention of 
 this organization to see that every boy in our County has a 
 pig, and every girl a flock of thoroughbred hens. CXir people 
 will finance this proposition, and furnish the money to every 
 boy and girl who will join the organization, and help them in 
 getting a start along the lines laid down by the Arkansas 
 Profitable Farming Campaign." q^ Sengel. 
 
 Secretary, Business Men's Club, Fort Smith, Ark. 
 
 MADE THE PEOPLE THINK 
 
 "We have been deeply interested in the Diversified Farm- 
 ing Campaign and have, with interest, watched every detail. 
 The campaign has caused a world of discussion and the people 
 are thinking like they have never thought before. A big 
 dent will be shown in the one-crop system in 1915. We owe 
 a debt of gratitude to all of the forces engaged in this work, 
 especially so to the International Harvester Company 
 organization." E j bodman. 
 
 Assistant Secretary, Union Trust Co., Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 THE GREATEST CAMPAIGN 
 
 "It is my wish to go on record as saying that during my 
 more than twenty-five years' residence in Arkansas, the 
 greatest one good which has come to the state was the Profit- 
 able Farming Campaign, inaugurated by the International 
 Harvester Company, and joined in by the U. S. Government, 
 State Agricultural Schools throughout the country, and local 
 Business Men's Club. The Profitable Farming Campaign 
 referred to was the greatest one ever put on in any state." 
 
 Henry C. Read, 
 Mayor, Fort Smith, Ark. 
 
 MOST EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN 
 
 "The Profitable Farming Campaign in Arkansas was one 
 of the best planned and most effective campaigns I have 
 ever seen." H. M. Cottrell, 
 
 Agricultural Commissioner, Rock Island Lines, Chicago, 111. 
 
 WORK CHARACTERIZED BY SINCERITY 
 
 "The Profitable Farming Campaign was characterized 
 
 by an earnestness and sincerity of purpose on the part of 
 
 P. G. Holden, and his assistants, which was a real inspiration 
 
 to every one identified with the work." 
 
 E. W. C. Johnston, 
 Western Newspaper Union, Little Rock, Ark 
 
 PEOPLE BELIEVE BENEFITS WILL COME 
 
 "We are hearing from people constantly throughout the 
 state who make reference in no uncertain terms as to the 
 benefits which they believe have already been received by 
 them through this campaign." V. C. Kays, 
 
 State Agricultural School, Jonesboro, Ark. 
 
 OF FAR REACHING EFFECT 
 
 "I desire to state as Secretary of the Chamber of Com- 
 merce of this city, that in my opinion, the Profitable Farm- 
 ing Campaign which has been recently carried on in Arkansas, 
 is without doubt the most profitable movement that was 
 ever undertaken in this state. Its far reaching effect upon 
 both farmer and business man, and the result accom- 
 plished in bringing these two classes of citizens together, is 
 nothing short of marvelous. The inquiries which I receive 
 daily from different parts of the state, as well as the United 
 States, are an indication of this fact. I take this opportunity 
 to thank the International Harvester Company and its forces 
 for the great work done,. and especially your P. G. Holden, 
 who has made a host of friends in our state and whom 
 thousands of our people have learned to love. The gi-eat 
 work that your corporation has done will some day build in 
 our state an everlasting monument to you." 
 
 Carl J. Baer, 
 Secretary, Chamber of Commerce, Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 WILL REDUCE COTTON ACREAGE 40% 
 
 " I feel certain that the cotton acreage will be reduced 40 
 
 per cent in Arkansas next year and this will mean hundreds 
 
 of thousands of dollars profit to Arkansas farmers. The 
 
 big feature of the work is that Arkansas will profit from the 
 
 campaign not only next year but for many years to come." 
 
 Fred Heiskell, 
 Chairman, Publicity Committee, Little Rock, Aric. 
 
 OF GREAT ECONOMIC BENEFIT 
 
 "Advantages have come and are continuing to come from 
 
 the Profitable Farming Campaign conducted under the 
 
 direction of the International Harvester Company. Suffice 
 
 it to say that there has been no movement in this state for 
 
 many years which has brought to the people so many apparent 
 
 material benefits in so short a time as this Profitable Farming 
 
 Campaign. This campaign has awakened our people along 
 
 the most practical lines of economic benefit and has brought 
 
 together on the basis of cordial sympathy and co-operation 
 
 many of the leaders in various activities, all working for the 
 
 public benefit." Geo. B. Cook, 
 
 State Supt. of Education, Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 CAMPAIGN MARKS NEW ERA IN AGRICULTURE 
 
 "I believe that this campaign marks a new era in the 
 affairs of Arkansas, and that from this on our state will grow 
 so rapidly along lines laid down that we will have a better 
 fed, better housed, better educated and better in every way 
 citizenship than our state has ever had before." 
 
 H. F. AUTEN, 
 
 Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 If you want to organize a Pig and Poultry Club, 
 write to E. N. Hopkins, Editor Arkansas Fruit and 
 Farms, Fort Smith, Arkansas. He will send you 
 plans. 
 
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THE ALABAMA CROP DIVERSIFICATION CAMPAIGN 
 
 February 3rd to 
 March 24th. 
 
 SUMMARY 
 
 Number of Counties 
 
 Covered 54 
 
 Number of Meetings 
 
 Held 1,248 
 
 Number of People at 
 
 Meetings 148,721 
 
 Number of Miles Trav- 
 eled on Railroads. . .115,000 
 
 Number of Miles Trav- 
 eled on Country- 
 Roads 30,000 
 
 CO-OPERATING FORCES 
 
 Farmers, Bankers, Merchants, Chambers of Commerce in all parts of the state. 
 Railroads and Telephone Companies, all Newspapers of the. State, Alabama Poly- 
 technic Institute, State Departments of Education and Agriculture, Farmers' Union, 
 Bankers' Association, Real Estate Exchange, U. S. Farm Demonstrators, Federation 
 of Women's Clubs, County and City Superintendents of Schools. Under direction 
 of the International Harvester Company, Agricultural Extension Department. 
 
 Nln« 
 
A HOME FOR EVERY ALABAMIAN 
 
 Thirty-Five Day Crop Diversification Campaign Closes — Permanent Organization Formed to 
 Continue Educational Work in Every Portion of the State. 
 
 jJHE advantages of Alabama are cheap 
 land; mild climate; plenty of rain; long 
 growing season; winter pastures; natural 
 adaptability to the growing of a great 
 variety of grain, legume and grass crops; ready 
 market with good prices for beef, dairy, and 
 poultry products; good transportation facilities; 
 streams and springs which are of great benefit to 
 the stockmen. Yet, with all these advantages 
 there are 14,000,000 acres of idle farm lands in 
 Alabama and the people are sending to northern 
 markets over $100,000,000 annually for food. Ala- 
 bama's prosperity lies in the eradication of the 
 cattle tick; in cattle, hogs, and poultry; in growing 
 legume crops and maintaining pastures of Ber- 
 muda and other grasses; in having a garden for 
 every home. Grass is the one great factor in the 
 development of the South. Grass not only means 
 feed for stock and crop diversification, but it solves 
 the problem of soil washing. 
 
 The Alabama Campaign brought into co-opera- 
 tion all of the agricultural and commercial forces 
 of the state. The work was conducted out of three 
 main central points — Birmingham for the northern 
 part of the state; Montgomery for the central and 
 southeastern counties; and Mobile for the counties 
 in the southwest. (See Map on Opposite Page.) 
 
 The speakers and organizers traveled in sunshine 
 and rain, over good roads and through the mud; in 
 automobiles, buggies, lumber-wagons, and on mule 
 back. 
 
 In every town and city the business men went 
 out with the speakers into the country and met the 
 farmers. The result of this intermingling of town 
 and country brought about a closer working relation 
 between all classes. Advance women representing 
 the State Federation of Women's Clubs were sent 
 out to organize auxiliary campaign committees 
 composed of women. County and city super- 
 intendents of schools arranged for special school 
 meetings. This school work proved to be one of the 
 most valuable features of the campaign. Thousands 
 
 of boys and girls heard practical talks on home 
 gardening, canning, pigs, corn, poultry, and were 
 impressed with the responsibilities which they must 
 assume in making Alabama feed herself. 
 
 FOLLOW-UP WORK IN ALABAMA 
 
 By the organization of three co-operative asso- 
 ciations, Alabama has planned effective follow-up 
 work to cover the entire state. These three organi- 
 zations are under the direction of the Alabama 
 Diversified Farming Association, Mrs. G. H. 
 Mathis, President. 
 
 1. The North Alabama Diversified Farming 
 Association to work in 35 northern counties, with 
 headquarters at the Chamber of Commerce, Bir- 
 mingham, Dr. J. T. Doster, President. 
 
 2. The Diversified Farming Association of Cen- 
 tral Alabama to take care of 16 counties in Cen- 
 
 KEEPING HIS WORD TO THE PEOPLE 
 
 A hard trip for man and beast, but Dr. F. A. Wolfe 
 did not want to disappoint a single farmer who might 
 have gone to the meeting places' advertised at Oakville 
 and Enon in Lawrence County, so he rode a mule 
 bare-back, 14 miles, and carried his lecture charts, as a 
 team could not get through w^ith a rig. 
 
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A HOME FOR EVERY ALABAMIAN 
 
 tral Alabama with headquarters at the Chamber 
 of Commerce, Montgomery; A. C. Davis, Presi- 
 dent; Mrs. Thos. M. Owen, Secretary. 
 
 3. The Diversified Farming Association of 
 Southern Alabama with headquarters at the Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, Mobile, to cover the southern 
 portion of the state. Ed. J. Buck, President. 
 
 Each of these associations has a local organiza- 
 tion in every county represented in the association. 
 
 The follow-up work is planned to meet the most 
 urgent needs of each county. Diversified farming 
 is the primary object. 
 
 The Alabama Campaign Committees were: 
 
 Birmingham — General Committee: W. P. Redd, Chair- 
 man, W. D. Nesbitt, Vice-Chairman, T. O. Smith, G. B. 
 McCormack, R. S. Munger, B. M. Allen, J. D. Moore, J. O. 
 Thompson, Murray Brown, F. M. Jackson, Samuel Rand, 
 O. L. Ayrs, P. G. Shook. Finance Committee : Hill Ferguson, 
 
 Chairman, G. B. McCormack, W. D. Nesbitt. W. P. Redd, 
 P. G. Shook, Oscar C. Turner. Publicity Committee : Joe H. 
 Simpson, Chairman, E. W. Barrett, F. P. Glass, J. H. F. 
 Mosely, Benj. L. Moss, James J. Smith. Transportation 
 Committee: E. T. Wilcox, Chairman, Lee Clary, J. H. 
 Doughty, R. Sevier, E. F. Stovall. 
 
 Montgomery — E. J. Meyer, Chairman Finance Com- 
 mittee, S. J. Cassels, Lucien Loeb, Ed. C. Taylor, Chairman 
 Entertainment Committee, Clayton TuUis, John Brame, A. 
 C. Davis, General Chairman; F. J. Cramton, Chairman Auto 
 Committee, J. F. Stukenborg, S. A. Solomon; E. B. Jones 
 Chairman, Schedule Committee, Dr. J. N. McLean, W. H. 
 Pace, T. W. Smith; W. Pierce Chilton, Chairman Publicity 
 Committee, Chas. H. Allen, Brame Hood, D. W. Mclver; 
 Mrs. Thomas M. Owen, Chairman, Woman's Committee. 
 
 Mobile — ^Jos. M. Walsh, General Chairman, J. C. Bush, 
 Jr., Chairman Finance Committee, M. J. McDermott; L. C. 
 Irvine, Chairman, Publicity Committee, B. S. Cowen, Aubrey 
 Boyles; J. C. Cochrane, Chairman School Committee, S. S 
 Murphy, C. F. Vigor; Ed. Reynolds, Chairman, Maintenance 
 Committee, C. L. Spotswood; D. R. Dunlap, Chairman, Auto 
 Committee; Elizabeth Fonde, Women's Committee. 
 
 TESTIMONY OF THE CAMERA 
 
 In the Alabama Crop Campaign 
 
 A TIN CAN CONVENTION 
 
 AN empty can convention on one of the dumps near Tus- 
 caloosa, Alabama. There are assembled at this place 
 representatives from California on the West, Maine on the 
 east, the lake states on the north and Tennessee on the south, 
 with a lot of the intervening states having large delegations. 
 The principal contents represented are sweet potatoes, 
 packed in Indiana, com syrup put up in New York, con- 
 densed milk made from Illinois grass, sugar corn grown in 
 Maine, and peaches from California. Reports from the 
 delegates show that hundreds of thousands of cans of food 
 from the same packing plants are brought into Alabama an- 
 nually for consumption, a large part of which are being 
 distributed on long credit to farmers. Cotton may be the mo- 
 ney crop of the South, but not when it is used to buy food- 
 stuff which could be raised at home. After the cotton is 
 gone and the canned goods have been eaten, all the farmer 
 has left for his year's hard work is a pile of empty tin cans 
 like this one. Is it worth while to close the year with a net 
 profit like this? 
 
 
 
 
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 GROW A LIVING ON THE FARM 
 
 Many farmers in Alabama, as in other Cotton Belt states, 
 raise nothing but cotton and buy all of their vegetables 
 and other food stuff at the store. This wagon contains 
 some' flour, and groceries, destined for a farm of 320 acres, 
 28 miles from Jasper. If a working wage were charged 
 for the two men and team for two days, the time required 
 to make the trip over bad roads, for this small load of gro- 
 ceries, the cost would be prohibitive. 
 
 Witten of Trenton, Missouri, says: "Get ac- 
 quainted with your neighbor; you might like him." 
 
 DON'T BURN THE CORN STALKS 
 
 Cornfield near Cullman, showing piles of corn stalks ready 
 for burning. The farmer not realizing that in burning the 
 stalks he is destroying good humus, the greatest need of 
 his soil. This farmer has gathered these stalks by hand 
 at the expense of considerable time and energy. He should 
 have cut them up on the ground with a disk harrow 
 and then plowed them under to hold moisture and add 
 humus for future crops. 
 
 PASTURE ROLLING LANDS 
 
 Soil washing does great damage to land and many farmers 
 do not know how to control it except by terracing which 
 is both expensive and inefficient. Proper cultivation and 
 rotation of crops will do the work in most cases, but slop- 
 ing land should be put into grass and pastured, if it con- 
 tinues to show inclination to wash badly. A little cotton 
 was raised on this land last year. There is comparatively 
 little slope to this land, yet the hard pan is exposed in 
 several places, caused from washing. 
 
 SOME TENANTS MOVE WHEN THE SOIL GETS POOR 
 
 Some tenants do not care how badly land washes, for 
 when it gets too bad, they can move. This field is owned 
 by a resident of Montgomery, Alabama, and is located 
 several miles from the city. It has been farmed by tenants 
 for years. — This field should be seeded to Bermuda grass 
 and pastured. 
 
 Make your Chamber of Commerce an Educa- 
 tional Center, not just a "social club." 
 
 Twelve 
 
A HOME FOR EVERY ALABAMIAN 
 
 THIS ALFALFA WAS GROWN IN OKLAHOMA 
 
 A Pratt City, Alabama farmer hauling home two bales 
 of alfalfa grown in Oklahoma, which cost him $1.50 a 
 hundred pounds, retail. He has 30 acres of land and 
 owns five cows and one mule, but has to buy feed. If he 
 had sown winter oats in the cotton field when laying by 
 the crop, he would have had considerable winter pasture 
 at home for his stock. 
 
 COUNTY CAMPAIGNS 
 
 ANY times a Chamber of Commerce, 
 Business Men's Organization, Superin- 
 tendent of Schools or other active forces 
 of a county or community desire to 
 carry on a campaign. 
 
 Where a movement of this kind is undertaken, a 
 general committee should be organized to plan the 
 
 
 Fig. 1. McLennan County Texas Campaign 
 
 work and appoint live committees on Schedule, 
 Finance, Transportation, Publicity, etc. General 
 interest must be shown on the part of all interests 
 of the county. Success will depend upon organiza- 
 tion and co-operation. The campaign will not run 
 itself. 
 
 The Profitable Farming Campaign in McLennan 
 County was organized in Waco, under the auspices 
 of the Waco Chamber of Commerce. (See Figure 1 .) 
 
 Farmers, bankers, and merchants were behind it. 
 One hundred and five meetings were held in two 
 days. Ten groups of speakers were taken out in 
 automobiles, buggies, and on the railroads, to all 
 
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 Fig. 2. Allegan County Michigan Campaign 
 
 parts of the county. The remote sections of the 
 county were reached by railroads. Some of the 
 results of this campaign are described in the Texas 
 Profitable Farming Campaign on page 18. 
 
 Allegan County, Michigan, is another example of 
 a county campaign. (See Figure 2.) Sixty meet- 
 ings were held in this county with Allegan as the 
 center of activity. 
 
 T hirteen 
 
THE OKLAHOMA ALFALFA CAMPAIGN 
 
 Sept. 2nd to 29th, 1914 
 
 Covering eleven counties in Eastern Oklahoma. Carried on under the Auspices of the Eastern 
 Oklahoma Agricultural Association, in Co-operation with Agricultural Extension Department of 
 the International Harvester Company. 
 
 SUMMARY 
 
 Meetings held 600 
 
 Attendance 18,564 
 
 Literature Distributed 117,300 
 
 Miles Traveled by Railroad 38,000 
 
 Miles Traveled by Autos 2,833 
 
 Speakers and Organizers 23 
 
 Purpose of Campaign: 
 
 1st. Eradication of the Cattle Tick. 
 
 2nd. More Alfalfa, Corn and Forage Crops; 
 
 3rd. More Live Stock. 
 
 4th. Prevention of Hog Cholera. 
 
 Fourteen 
 
 We will furnish you Lecture Charts or Lan- 
 tern Slides on Com, Alfalfa, Soils, Weeds, 
 Poultry, Live Stock, etc. Write for sample 
 Lecture Chartlets, free. 
 
ALFALFA, CORN AND SILO CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH DAKOTA 
 
 June 6th to 27th, 1914. 
 
 On the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul and the Chicago & Northwestern Railroads, in Co-operation 
 with the Agricultural Ejctension Department of the International Harvester Company. 
 
 PURPOSE OF CAMPAIGN 
 
 This campaign was conducted in a portion of 
 South Dakota where Diversified Farming has become, 
 general in the past few years, but where there has 
 not been sufficient attention given to legume crops. 
 
 South Dakota is well adapted to the growing of 
 corn and alfalfa. Corn, alfalfa, the silo and live stock 
 point the way to prosperity in this state. 
 
 The purpose of the campaign was to emphasize 
 the need of: 
 
 1. More legume crops, especially alfalfa. 
 
 2. More live stock. 
 
 3. More silos. 
 
 Note — ^The pit silo is found to be especially adapted 
 to Dakota conditions. (Send for our 70 page Silo 
 Book which tells how to construct a pit silo; also 
 other interesting silo facts. Price 25 cents. 
 
 SUMMARY 
 
 Number of Meetings Held 431 
 
 Attendance 23,000 
 
 Speakers 22 
 
 Miles Traveled by Railroad 51,412 
 
 Miles Traveled by Auto 6,242 
 
 Literature Distributed 309,300 
 
 One man with a team and plow on the farm 
 can do more to build up your town than 40 fat 
 men around a banquet table. 
 
 Fifteen 
 
Every Farm is a 
 Fftctory 
 
 THE FERTIUTY OF 
 ITS SOIL IS THE 
 CAPITAL STOCK 
 
 TTic farm is the greatest 
 purchasing power. 
 Develop the agricul- 
 tural and commercial 
 interests within your 
 trade territory and your 
 town will build itself. 
 The purchasing power 
 of a town depends upon 
 the productive power 
 of the farms tributary 
 
 ^eTEXAS PRPFIT4BLE 
 FARAUNG CAMPAIGN 
 
 D 
 CONDUCTED I IN CENXRAI^ 
 
 TEXAS . JAN 1 1 XH ,TO 24TH 
 
 915. 
 
 SAN ANTONIO. .^i^GALVESTON 
 
 SUMMARY 
 
 Counties in which meetings were 
 
 held 15 
 
 Total number of meetings 520 
 
 Attendance 48,700 
 
 Pieces of literature distributed 200,000 
 
 Stsirt a 
 Campaign — 
 Start it Now 
 
 EACH STAR INDICATES A MEETING 
 
 Northern group indicates meetings held in John- 
 son County, out of Cleburne under the direction of 
 the Cleburne Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 Large group in center indicates meetings held in 
 McLennan, Falls, Bell, and adjoining counties under 
 the direction of the Waco, Marlin, and Temple Cham- 
 bers of Commerce. 
 
 Two southern groups to the left indicate meet- 
 
 ings held in Hays, Bexar and adjoining counties out 
 of San Marcos and San Antonio, under the direction 
 of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and the 
 Bexar County Highway League. 
 
 Southern group on right indicates meetings held 
 in Harris and adjoining counties out of Houston 
 under the direction of the Houston Chamber of Com- 
 
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TEXAS WILL FEED HERSELF 
 
 An Impressive Lesson Carried to Nearly 50,000 People in a Two-Weeks' Campaign to Make 
 
 Texas Farms Feed Texas People. 
 
 Every Crop May Fail One Year: One Crop May Fail Every Year: 
 But Every Crop Will Not Fail Every Year 
 
 HE purpose of the Texas Profitable Farm- 
 ing Campaign was to bring about a 
 closer business relation betv/een all in- 
 terests of the state; to impress upon 
 the people of Texas the necessity of becoming 
 economically self-sufficient; to abandon the one- 
 crop system — the growing of cotton to the exclu- 
 sion of other crops; to adopt a practical system 
 of diversified farming. 
 
 A careful analysis of the statistics show that 
 Texas is sending away over $200,000,000 annually 
 to northern and eastern markets for food such as 
 meat, dairy, and poultry products, carmed fruits 
 and vegetables, and feed for live stock — all of which 
 can be produced more abundantly and at less cost 
 at home. Investigation proved that it requires 
 nearly 15 bales of cotton at 9 cents a pound to 
 purchase 100 bushels of canned sweet potatoes; and 
 the potatoes can be produced on one acre of ground 
 while it requires from 15 to 20 acres of land to 
 produce the cotton. 
 
 If every farmer in Texas would market 10 dozen 
 eggs per week, the amount of money received 
 annually from the sale, at 20 cents a dozen, would 
 amount to over $60,000,000 — nearly half as much 
 money as the whole South asked for in its appeal 
 for federal aid to finance distressed cotton growers. 
 
 These facts have had a great influence on the 
 farmers and business men of Texas in proving the 
 folly of raising nothing but cotton and buying 
 foodstuffs from outside markets. 
 
 In the Texas Campaign forty speakers were en- 
 gaged in active field work. They were divided into 
 twenty crews and in each crew was a school man 
 who gave practical lectures at the rural schools and 
 educational institutions and an experienced agri- 
 culturist who spoke to the farmers and business 
 men. More than 1,000 people laid aside all other 
 plans and took active part, serving on committees 
 and otherwise donating their time, money, and 
 energy to the work. 
 
 The Texas Profitable Farming Committee con- 
 sisted of: Hon. James E. Ferguson, Governor of 
 Texas; Ex-Gov. O. B. Colquitt; Col. P. L. Downs, 
 President, Temple Chamber of Commerce, Chair- 
 man; E. W. Kirkpatrick, President Texas Industrial 
 Congress; D. E. Colp, Secretary, Good Roads Asso- 
 ciation, San Antonio ; W. C. Barrackman, Secretary, 
 Texas Industrial Congress; A. C. Connolly, Secre- 
 tary, Marlin Chamber of Commerce; Adolph Boldt, 
 Secretary, Houston Chamber of Commerce; J. E. 
 Surratt, Secretary, Commercial Executives Associa- 
 tion; F. P. Holland, Publisher Farm & Ranch, Dallas, 
 Texas; J. W. Riggins, Mayor, Waco, Texas; E. F. 
 Drake, Secretary, Waco Chamber of Commerce; 
 W. W. Woodson, President, Young Men's Business 
 League, Waco; W. F. Doughty, State Superintend- 
 ent Public Instruction, Austin, Texas; Henry D. 
 Lindsley, Dallas; W. M. O'Dell, President, Cle- 
 burne Chamber of Commerce; J. A. Davis, State 
 Agricultural Commissioner, Austin, Texas; J. B. 
 Carrington, Secretary, San Antonio Chamber of 
 Commerce; A. C. Parker, Government Demonstra- 
 tion Agent, Waxahatchie, Texas; Dr. E. Caswell 
 Ellis, Director Agricultural Extension, University 
 of Texas; J. T. Joplin, Secretary, Cleburne Cham- 
 ber of Commerce; E. K. Williams, Temple Tele- 
 gram; Geo. B. Dealy, Dallas News; James M. 
 North, Jr., Fort Worth Star Telegram; Frank E. 
 Burkhalter, Waco Morning News; Geo. C. Robin- 
 son, Waco Times-Herald; A. B. McCoUum, Waco 
 Semi- Weekly Tribune; Lloyd P- Lockridge, Austin 
 Statesman; Hal Sevier, Austin American; A. C. 
 Baldwin, Tribune, Austin; Jos. Emerson Smith, 
 San Antonio Express; Chas. S. Diehl, San Antonio 
 Light; Harry T. Warner, Houston Post; H. E. Fos- 
 ter, Houston Chronicle; D. R. Harris, President 
 Texas Press Association, Rusk Co. News, Hender- 
 son; P. L. Dailey, Western Newspaper Union, Dal- 
 las, Texas; Col. W. A. Bowen, Farmers Fireside 
 Bulletin, Arlington. 
 
 Seventeen 
 
A PIG FOR EVERY BOY 
 
 E. F. Drake, Secretary of the Waco, Texas, Chamber of Commerce, Tells of Plan to Put Pigs on 
 
 Every Farm in McLennan County. 
 
 I rofessor Perry G. Holden, Director of the 
 Agricultural Extension Department of 
 the International Harvester Company, 
 and eighteen of his practical farm lec- 
 turers made one hundred and five lec- 
 tures in this county on "Diversified Farming." The 
 interest manifested by our people was intense, for 
 conditions had proven to them that the one-crop sys- 
 tem was all wrong. It occurred to us that to 
 obtain the best results someone must get behind 
 this campaign and follow up the recommendations 
 which the speakers had advanced. 
 
 We then selected "The Pig" as the "Vehicle" 
 to carry diversification into the minds of the farmer 
 through the small boy, who will be the future 
 farmer. After studying out the plan best to pur- 
 sue, I called upon several bankers and business 
 men and asked them to loan me money at 6 per 
 cent interest and take the notes of the boys of this 
 County for same without any security other than 
 the note, the money furnished to be used for the 
 purchase of pigs, the pigs to be furnished to the 
 boys to start hog raising in this County. The first 
 man upon whom I called became enthusiastic at 
 once and agreed to finance 20 boys. This was 
 more than I had expected, but when I saw the 
 second man he received it with like enthusiasm 
 and agreed also to finance 20 boys. I then realized 
 that I had started something. From this small 
 beginning, our jobbers and merchants began offer- 
 ing me pig money faster than I could secure the 
 boys. I then put an announcement in each of our 
 newspapers, and was deluged with letters from boys 
 who were anxious to start into the hog business. 
 
 The requirements of the boy are as follows: 
 First. Each boy must come recommended as to his 
 honesty and thrift, such recommendation to come from his 
 school teacher, superintendent, trustee, banker, business man 
 or farmer. 
 
 Second. He must give his note bearing 6% interest for 
 the cost of the pig which he will be furnished. We will 
 neither accept endorsement or take a mortgage upon the pig, 
 but make the boy feel first, the importance of his obligation 
 to the man who recommended him, and second, his financial 
 obligation. 
 
 Third. He must agree to raise not less than one-half 
 acre of feed for his pig. 
 
 Fourth. We require a waiver from his parent or guardian 
 that the boy is the sole owner, and that he, the father or 
 guardian, will neither claim the profits or increase of same. 
 
 Fifth. He will be asked (for we cannot make this com- 
 pulsory) to take his profits and convert them into a heifer 
 calf. We have not yet decided upon the breed, but think it 
 will be the "Red Polled," for we want a good milk producer 
 as well as beef producer. 
 
 Sixth. Neighborhood clubs of six, seven or eight boys 
 will draw for the male. The boy receiving the male must 
 agree to give service to the boys with females, and receive 
 payment in a pig. He will not be permitted to charge money 
 for service among his fellow club members. By this plan, 
 the boy with the male will receive his increase as well as the 
 boys with the females. 
 
 So far, the pigs which we have secured are all 
 registered stock. Each boy shall have his own 
 choice as to the sort of feed he shall plant, but we 
 require a report to be made to us on what his 
 profits and results have been, and the kind of feed 
 he grew, which information, we consider will be of 
 inestimable value toward showing what feed is best 
 in this county for the production of pork. 
 
 These boys will be invited to come into Waco 
 in the near future and have their pictures taken 
 in a group and we expect the pictures of the pigs 
 with which they are going to start business. 
 
 Some of the men who are financing the boys 
 have notified me that should a pig die from natural 
 causes, they would cancel the debt or furnish 
 another pig, for they do not want the boy to be 
 discouraged in his first venture. 
 
 Eighteen 
 
Your Chamber of Gommerce Should Put on a Series 
 Lectures with I H G Gharts and Slides 
 
 GET YOUR FARM DEMONSTRATOR OR SUPERINTENDENT OF 
 SCHOOLS TO GIVE YOU A PRACTICAL TALK ON AGRICULTURE 
 
 of 
 
 You wrHl be surprised to see how intensely in- 
 terested your bankers and merchants 'w^ill be. If 
 you want to put your organization on the map, 
 plan an agricultural campaign of education. Ar- 
 range a program. Give one lecture a week on 
 any of these subjects:— Soils, Corn, Alfalfa, Poul- 
 try, Weeds, Live Stock, Flies, etc. Follow each 
 lecture w^ith a discussion of the subject. Make 
 your Chamber of Commerce an educational cen- 
 ter, not just a "club." Your town is built on the 
 surplus earnings of the farm. Business men in 
 town should take a keen interest in the industrial 
 w^elfare of the town's "trade territory." 
 
 There is nothing constructive in grabbing 
 business from other communities— Create new^ 
 business in your ow^n community. Have a Cham- 
 ber of Agriculture and Conunerce. 
 
 If you want to make your organization a place 
 of interest, plan a three months' lecture course. 
 Use I H G lecture charts and slides. You can, no 
 doubt, find among the members of your Cham- 
 ber of Commerce men who can give interesting 
 and instructive talks on any of the subjects 
 treated in these charts. 
 
 PRACTICAL LECTURES ON AGRICULTURE 
 With Charts and Lantern Slides 
 
 Subjects: — Soils, Farm Crops, Live Stock, Poultry, Flies, Weeds, etc — Prepared by the Agricultural Extension 
 Department of the International Harvester Company of New Jersey under 
 the personal direction of P. G. Holden 
 
 Charts and slides will be furnished to individuals or to organizations, such as Chambers of Commerce, Chautauquas, 
 
 Farmers' Institutes, Clubs, and Granges; or to City and County Superintendents of Schools, 
 
 and Teachers, State Agricultural Leaders, County Agents, etc. 
 
 VERY chart and slide tells an important 
 story, the results of authentic experi- 
 ments conducted, or facts based on prac- 
 tical tests made under ordinary condi- 
 tions. These educational charts and stereopticon 
 views are of special value because they are simple. 
 The speaker is enabled to present his subject clearly 
 and logically. 
 
 The charts are the framework around which the 
 lecturer builds the complete story. They are valu- 
 
 No. 1. Corn is King. A most interesting and in- 
 structive lecture dealing with the corn crop — Essential points 
 in com improvement — Selecting and testing seed — How to 
 increase profits in growing — Designed for the use of lectures 
 in the corn-growing states. 
 
 No. 2. Alfalfa on Every Farm. Treats fully of the 
 agricultural value of alfalfa as a soil enriching crop. As a 
 
 able both to the professional lecturer and to those 
 unaccustomed to speaking in public. 
 
 Ten to fifteen charts make up a set. Stereopticori 
 sets contain from forty to sixty lantern slides, plain 
 and in colors. With each set of charts or slides 
 there is furnished for the information and direction 
 of lecturers, a booklet outlining briefly the story 
 of each chart or slide. (See subjects of Charts and 
 Slides following.) 
 
 feed for live stock in comparison with other feeds — Its in- 
 fluence toward a diversified system of farming — Effect on 
 land values — Preparation of seed bed — Rate of seeding — 
 Essential points in growing — Soil inoculation — Harvesting, 
 care of crop, etc. 
 
 No. 3. A Fertile Soil Means a Prosperous People. 
 An object lesson in the great fundamental of agriculture — 
 
 Nineteen 
 
PRACTICAL LECTURES ON AGRICULTURE 
 
 The soil — What it is — Showing the results of over fifty years 
 of experimental work in the growing of crops and their effect 
 upon the fertility of the soil — A one-crop system — What 
 It means — Crop rotation, its object and results. These 
 charts prepared from authentic sources of information ob- 
 tained from results of investigations under many conditions 
 of soil and climate. Deals with the problem of living. 
 
 No. 4. Live Stock on Every Farm. A vital problem 
 in American farm practice — The growing of live-stock, its 
 advantages over grain farming — ^Maintains soil fertility — 
 Points to diversification of crops — Conserves waste — ^Means 
 greater profits — A simple yet comprehensive treatment of 
 the importance of live stock farming — The feeding of live 
 stock — Compiled from actual experiments with crops and 
 animals under ordinary conditions. 
 
 No. 5. Dairying. Importance of the Dairy and its 
 products — ^Points in a dairy cow — The Babcock test — How 
 to improve the dairy herd — ^Profits, etc. A very interesting 
 lecture on a vital subject which concerns every farming 
 community. 
 
 No. 6. Greater Profits from the Oat Crop. The 
 
 oat crop — Acreage and distribution in the United States — 
 How to improve — Early, medium and late variety tests — 
 Fanning, grading, methods of soil preparation, harvesting 
 and care of the crop — Treatment for Smut Diseases — ^and a 
 number of other interesting facts which point to greater 
 profits from the oat crop. 
 
 No. 7. Make More from Farm Poultry. Importance 
 of the Poultry crop — Breeding, feeding and housing — 
 Handling and marketing products — ^How farmers can make 
 poultry pay. 
 
 No. 8. Weed» Mean Waste. The place of the weed 
 as an influence in reducing farm profits — Cost United States 
 
 $300,000,000 annually— Robs the soil— Reduces yield and 
 profit — ^Means wasted land and labor without return — 
 Varieties of weeds and their distribution — How to eradicate 
 — ^A lesson which carries a message to the home of every 
 American farmer. 
 
 No. 9. Home Economict. How to live, be healthy and 
 more efficient. Nothing concerns the standards of life more 
 than the science of the home. A lecture of great interest. 
 
 No. 10. Dangers of the House Fly. How the com- 
 mon house fly spreads filth and disease — Carries typhoid and 
 germs of other contagious diseases — Causes thousands of 
 deaths in the United States, annually — Its life, habits and 
 breeding places — Methods of extermination, etc. A striking 
 lesson which should be borne to every household. 
 
 No. 1 1 . The Great Forward Movement in Education or 
 Why Teach Agriculture in the Schools. This lecture is of 
 vital interest to everyone because it deals with the things 
 which concern all the people — Can such a subject be with- 
 out educational value? 
 
 Agriculture is active and constructive, scientific and in- 
 dustrial* It employs the hand as well as the head. It com- 
 bines thought with action; awakens interest, gives purpose, 
 teaches thrift and self-reliance; and these are the principles 
 which underlie character, and success in life. 
 
 If rightly taught, it will develop in early life the ability 
 to do a definite thing. It will motivize and strengthen our 
 life's work. 
 
 No. 12. Diversified Farming for the South. A set of 
 
 fourteen lectiire charts treating the problems of the South 
 — Rotation of Crops — Methods of Tick Eradication — ^Live 
 Stock — Silos. This set of charts shows the advantages of 
 the South. 
 
 CHARTS AND LANTERN SLIDES FOR SCHOOLS 
 
 Teachers in Both City and Rural Schools Can Make Their Work More Effective by the Use of 
 Charts and Slides — Plan a Definite Program — Start a School Chautauqua in Your County. 
 
 O branch of the school work is so in- 
 teresting, entertaining and instructive to 
 both teacher and pupil as the stereop- 
 ticon lecture. Many subjects can be 
 taught in this way, which are without mean- 
 ing to school children when studied from books. 
 I H C lectures in lantern slide form cover a great 
 variety of subjects. We can furnish charts and 
 slides to schools on any of the twelve subjects 
 described. 
 
 Charts are made of a good grade of sheeting, 70 
 inches long and 63 inches wide, printed in clear 
 black letters, which can easily be read at a dis- 
 tance of 100 feet or more. They are arranged to 
 be set up and taken down quickly and conveniently. 
 Each set with iron stand, pointer, and lecture book, 
 packed in canvas case — ^weight, 28 pounds. 
 
 Lantern slide sets, 40 to 60 slides, plain and in 
 colors — weight, 15 pounds. 
 
 Twen t f 
 
ALFALFA LEADS TO LIVE STOCK FARMING 
 
 Introducing Queen Alfalfa in the Great Palouse Country 
 of the Northwest Where Wheat Is King 
 
 BRITISH. 
 
 COLUMBIA 
 
 THE INLAND EMPIRE 
 ALFALFA CAMPAIGN 
 
 Twenty-one 
 
KING WHEAT MUST YIELD TO OTHER CROPS 
 
 The Inland Empire Alfalfa Campaign, Ginducted for 40 Days in Oregon, Washington, and 
 Idaho, the Great Palouse Country, Where Wheat Is King — The Growing of Legume Crops Was 
 Urged as an Important Step in the Direction of a More Permanent System of Agriculture — 
 Results of the Campaign Indicate an Increase in the Acreage of Com, Alfalfa, and Other 
 Crops— One Seed House Sells 185,000 Pounds of Grass Seed. 
 
 HIS was a railroad campaign carried on in 
 combination with automobiles. The 
 Spokane Chamber of Commerce fostered 
 the movement, but Spokane's part in 
 the work was not proportionately any greater than 
 that of the smaller towns. Because of Spokane's 
 central location and larger resources and facili- 
 ties, the business men were called upon to handle 
 the preliminary work of organization, and main- 
 tain permanent headquarters. 
 
 Six railroad systems, consisting of the Great 
 Northern, Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, O. W. 
 R. & N., and I. W. &2 N., co-operated in furnish- 
 ing a fully equipped train consisting of two stand- 
 ard Pullman coaches, dining car, day coach, and 
 baggage car. This equipment was carried over 
 4,000 miles of the lines co-operating, for 40 days, 
 making 2 hour stops at 160 towns in a section of 
 country approximately 225 miles square, in Wash- 
 ington, Oregon, and Idaho. A local campaign 
 committee was organized at each of the 160 towns. 
 These committees met the train on schedule time 
 with autos and buggies and carried ten to fifteen 
 speakers from eight to ten miles, in different direc- 
 tions to farm homes where meetings had been 
 arranged. During the campaign 960 meetings were 
 held with an attendance of nearly 90,000 people. 
 290,000 pieces of literature were distributed. "^ 
 
 The agricultural problem of the Northwest is the 
 one-crop system. Great tracts of land are seeded 
 to wheat every year. Large farms necessarily 
 mean fewer owners and smaller population. Like 
 the cotton farmers in the South, the farmers of the 
 northwest sell their wheat crop and use the money 
 to buy food stuffs. Diversification in this great 
 wheat-growing section will mean an increase in 
 rural population, smaller farms, better soil, larger 
 
 per acre yield of wheat, oats, corn, and other crops; 
 advance in farm values, better homes, and a gen- 
 eral improvement in agricultural, industrial and 
 commercial conditions. 
 
 A little more than a year has passed since the 
 inauguration of the Inland Empire Campaign. 
 R. R. Rogers, Secretary of the campaign, says: 
 " 100,000 acres of land in the Inland Empire, 
 never before in any kind of grass crops, have been 
 put to grasses in 1914, as a result of this campaign. 
 One Spokane seed house doubled its sale of alfalfa 
 seed, and another sold 185,000 pounds of grass 
 seed this season. The sales of other seed houses 
 are likewise increased. 
 
 "The demand for sweet clover seed cannot be 
 supplied. Before the campaign was put on, this 
 was an unknown crop in this section. More seed 
 corn has been sold than ever before." 
 
 ALFALFA INCREASE- 25% 
 
 "There is an increase in the acreage of com of about 
 10%, and alfalfa 25% in this section. Farmers are raising 
 more hogs and keeping more cows and we are certain that 
 the campaign has done a great deal of good here. "' 
 
 H. H. FORDYCE, 
 
 Colville. Wash. 
 
 MORE CORN, HAY AND SILOS 
 
 "We are quite positive, from information which we have 
 that there will be more than double the crop of com planted 
 this year than there was last season. We are also informed 
 by the seed men here, that previous to the campaign in 
 Lewiston territory, they had positively no call for sweet 
 clover, but have marketed several thousand pounds during 
 this season. At the present time, sales on alfalfa seed have 
 practically doubled that of last year. Another gratifying 
 indication of the good work which Mr. Holden of the Inter- 
 national Harvester Company did here, is the number of 
 inquiries regarding silos. We have information that a num- 
 ber of silos will be built this season. " 
 
 Erb Hardware Co., Ltd., 
 
 Lewiston, Idaho. 
 
 Twenty-two 
 
KING WHEAT MUST YIELD TO OTHER CROPS 
 
 10,000 POUNDS OF CLOVER SEED 
 
 "We believe that at least 10,000 pounds of clover seed 
 have been sown here and about half that amount of alfalfa. " 
 Miller Hardware 6z Implement Co., 
 
 Grangeville, Idaho. 
 
 ALFALFA ACREAGE DOUBLED 
 
 "It is our judgment that the acreage of alfalfa in this 
 section will be doubled this year. Three dealers in this 
 town who handle seed, I am surprised to learn, estimate an 
 increase in the sale of seed over last year from 50 to 75 per 
 cent, the same being in lots of 10 to 50 pounds each. " 
 
 25% INCREASE IN CORN 
 
 "We believe that the com acreage will be increased 25% 
 over last year. " 
 
 Denson & Phillips. 
 
 Davenport, Wash. 
 
 500% INCREASE IN ALFALFA ACREAGE 
 
 "Quite a large acreage is being seeded to alfalfa this 
 spring, an increase of fully five hundred per cent. " 
 
 Farmers Union Grain & Supply Co., 
 
 Latah, Wash. 
 
 50% MORE ALFALFA 
 
 "We find that there will be at least 50% increase in the 
 acreage of alfalfa this year over last year. We are positive 
 that the Holden campaign is proving very beneficial to this 
 part of the country. " 
 
 Bell 8z Turnbull Hardware Co., 
 
 Newport, Wash. 
 
 BIG INCREARE IN CORN AND ALFALFA 
 
 "There is a great increase in com and alfalfa, judging 
 from the amount of seed being sold this spring." 
 
 Larson & Kelly, 
 
 Kettle Falls, Wash. 
 
 AS TO MARKETS 
 
 Before you organize a Farm Marketing Asso- 
 ciation, produce enough to supply the needs of 
 your community. When a community produces 
 more than it can consume, and the surplus can 
 be marketed at a profit, conditions will quickly 
 adjust themselves to take care of the surplus. 
 
 Markets are the result of natural develop- 
 ment. You cannot force a market, it must come 
 of its own accord with the growth of business. 
 
 Food will find a way to the hungry. 
 
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 Seed Corn 03 .02 
 
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 Sweet Clover 04 .03 
 
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