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Show mi LOWOEN REAL E SIEND OF FARMER Record in OKic:, Proves His Interest In-terest In Measures lo Benefit fjviculturc MANAGES KS OWN FARM Illinois Governor la Cotton Planter, Stock Italter and Genoral Fanner Foctera Dllla to Make Rural Life Moro Attractive. (iov. Knm's' t). Lowdeii of Illinois, one of Ihe ii ailing csndldatc.i for the Ilopubllcim nomination for president. Is, ii practical and successful farmer: Horn on n fiirm near Sunrise. Minn., of iturdy American parentage, ho moved lo Hardin county, Iowa, when he wns 7 years old, where l.e worked Ilia way through school later by teaching. When he came to Chicago, he purchased pur-chased a large farm near Oregon, III., hlcli I" now -alN his home Thh ;jrm I .uti f the tiller I 1111-i.ils. 1111-i.ils. In mid': on to this ho intus mid ipernti" two lotttm ptuiilatlotK In Ar-ltin:tr. Ar-ltin:tr. nml In, ej onslvo stock breeding breed-ing Ii .eres h T -.ns. Altlionsh he b.is In-ii mici evi'v ' ns leather, law ;, r, basinets mini nml .fctntesraan, Lnirden prefers ( bo known- as a I tmer. He has m u, vi mceevdlns In everything lie. undertakes and Ids experience as a fanner Is no excepUon to this role. The governor's Interest In farming tins nt no time been moro forcibly shown Oion during the four years he has governed Illinois. In his Inaugural address he luld out a broad policy which he has consistently followed for fostering every phase of agriculture, lie said, on taking oillcc: "Agriculture1 Is our most Important Industry. It Is tho source of our greatness. Its continued success Is the condition of any permaueut prosperity pros-perity within our borders. The conservation con-servation movement must concern Itself It-self with tho soil, for evcu our brief history 'shows that fertllo fields may become, abandoned fnnns through other causes than lack of rainfall. Tho raising of live stock seems necessary neces-sary If we are to prof-ervy tlie fertility of the soil. Wo should foster thlsln-dtistry thlsln-dtistry In every way wo can. "Wc should encourage co-opcrutle. farming. Wherever you find agriculture agricul-ture In Us highest state you flml Hint eo operation bus made its greatest ad-vniice." ad-vniice." Ono of -iho most notable, measures taken by Gov. Lowden to foster agriculture agri-culture was the civil administrative code. -This, net consolidated lu tile s'lato department of agriculture various vari-ous commissions nnd bureaus, crcnted from lime to time to aid thu fanning Interests. The efllelcney of administration adminis-tration was vastly enhanced by this centrnllutlon of resiionsllillliy, ami the benefits to thn rural population have been lnereiit.lngly evident during the two years -since thu code wns adopted. Moreover, through (lov. Lowden' active Interest, n number of bills have been put through the legislature ill "rectly bearing on Hie farmer's lot. These Include tho bill for ostnhllMilm: a tenancy commission, for rogiitiitinr commission merchants, the pure seed Inw, the "revised dog law, eompcnsn '.Ion for the slaughter of tuberculin caftle. appropriation of Slis.UOO or ti 'llnicstnno plant, appropriation for a live stock biological laboratory, establishing estab-lishing n veterinary college, nnd regulating regu-lating the npreml of plant disease. Tho governor likes not onlyfarms but farmers. In a speech 1-enlly In said: '. "In. these troublesome Hinos I often wish I were governor of a srnto whost only cltlsens were farmers. Tlr farmer Is flu greatest btnhlllzcr In tin country apd If It Wero not for our 0,000,00(1 farmers I would despair ol tho future of America." |
