Editor Sentinel,
For the encouragement of the farmers of Clark[e] County, I would inform them, that on the 13th of December 1862, we organized a Farmers club in Washington Township. We now have about fifty working members, and will soon select a site for a fairgrounds, lots and scales.
On New years night we organized a club in Fremont Township. The preamble and constitution of that club, I will have published through the Sentinel, according to promise for a kind of guide for other clubs, yet to organize.
Farmers, organize soon in the various neighborhoods, and send the names of your President and Secretary to Hon. W. D. Wilson, Des Moines Iowa; also the name of the club. He will forward documents, reports and seeds to your address.
Mr. Wilson informs me that he can send all the tobacco and cotton seed the farmers want. I will write to the commissioner at Washington for a supply of good seeds and cuttings, for gratuitous distribution among the regular organized clubs.
W. Watts,
Sec. Clark[e] County Ag’l Society.
– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, Saturday, January 3, 1863
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