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Show THE PLANTING CAMPAIGN. The governor of Iowa has set an excellent ex-cellent example for all the governors in the United States. He addressed a joint i session of the Iowa senate and house, calling on the legislature and through them the people of the state, to co-operate in the ' ; Christ-like work of feeding feed-ing the hungry of the world." He asked that every effort be made to produce a record crop next fall, declaring that 'never before in the memory of any I living man has there been such a uui-' uui-' versal demand for food and such a uui-! uui-! versal lack of it. ' Not all the governors can ask the cooperation co-operation of the legislatures, for only a few of the lawmaking bodies are in session, but appeals should be sent out 1 to the county commissioners and to the . farmers themselves to enter energeti- cally into the work of planting wisely and abundantly. The secretary of agriculture agri-culture has ju-t added the weight of his influence to the fiht I'r preparedness . against famine and has givn ome valuable val-uable advice which the farmers would do well to heed. We have heard some disparaging things about thf American farmer from season to season, but he is among the n;o-t oner get m and most miccpsI'uI in the world, especially when far mini; on a big xale. The Kuglish. in their campaign cam-paign to prevent starvation, are anxious to import ll'hn) American farmers to show how farming on a grand seale -lmuld' be done. If the American farmer sets, uut Lo f :'.-'! th -.vorld he can do it. There i on I v one t rouble' with the Amriau iit niiHr.i. There are too few of them, b-Si'hc the iaet that G:ey are numbered ;v millions. |