| Show GOV cov LOWDEN REAL FRIEND OF FARMER Record In Offices Proves His Interest In Interest Interest In- In terest in Measures to Benefit Agriculture MANAGES HIS OWN YN FARM Illinois Governor Is Cotton Planter Stock Raiser and General Farmer Fosters Bills Billa to Make Rural Life More Attractive Gov Frank Fronk O. O Lowden of ot Illinois one of ot the loading leading candidates for th the Republican nomination for tor president In le a practical and successful farmer Born Burn on a farm near Sunrise Minn of ot sturdy American parentage ho he h moved mond to Hardin count county Iowa when ho he was 7 years cars old where he worked his way war through school later Inter b by teaching teaching When he came to Chicago ha h h purchased purchased pur pur- cht chased ll a large lar-e farm tarm m near ar Or Oregon gon which he now calls his home homp This farm furm is une of ot the finest in 1111 Illi outs nois In III addition to this he owns an and operates two cotton plantations In Arkansas Arkansas Ar Are kansas and has extensive stock breed breed- lug Int Interests In Texas Although he h. h hhas has been successful as a teacher r lawyer lawyer law law- l yer r business man and tu statesman Lowden prefers to be known kno as u a farmer He has a wa way of ot succeeding In everything he undertakes and his bla experience as u a farmer Is no exception to this rule The governors governor's Interest In farming has liltS at no time been more forcibly shown than during the four tour years he ho hohas has bas governed Illinois In his Inaugural address he laid out a broad policy which he has consistently followed for tor fostering er e every phase of ot agriculture H He said on taking office Agriculture Is our most Important Industry It is the source of ot our greatness Its continued success is II e ethe the condition of at an any permanent prosperity pros pros- within our borders The conservation conservation conservation con con- movement must concern It Itself itself It it- self elt with the soil for tor even our brier brief history shows that fertile fields may become abandoned farms through other causes than lack of ot rainfall The raising of ot live stock seems necea- necea JUT ury ry If It we are to preserve tho the fertility of the soil foster taster this in IA In every way we can We should encourage cooperative co farming Wherever you find cad agriculture agriculture agriculture ture In its highest state you find that operation co-operation has made Its greatest advance ad vance One of at the most notable measures measure taken by Gov Lowden to foster agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture was the tile civil administrative code This act consolidated in the tate state department of ot agriculture various various various vari vari- ous commissions and bureaus created from tram time to time to aid the farming Interests The efficiency of ot adminis administration tru was vastly enhanced by this centralization of ot responsibility and the benefits to the rural ruml population have been Increasingly evident e during the two years ears since the code was Will adopted Moreover through Gov Lowden's Lowden active Interest a number of ot bills have bave been put through the legislature directly dl di bearing on the thc farmers farmer's lot These Thes Include the bill for tor establishing a tenancy commission for tor regulating commission merchants the pure seed law the revised dog law compensation tion for tor the slaughter of ot tubercular cattle appropriation of ot for tor a limestone plant appropriation for tor a alive alive alive live stock biological laboratory establishing establishing establishing lishing a veterinary college and regulating regu lating the spread of plant disease The governor likes not only farms farm but farmers In a speech recently ht he said In these troublesome times Umes I often wish I were governor of ot a state whose only citizens were farmers The farmer is th the greatest stabilizer In the country and if it were not for our farmers I would despair of the future of ot America |
