The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-03-03

no ihe Rotor of tho Herall.
| have jiit road ypur article IN Tho HER-
AID Of tho 15.h, IN iho sutject Of estate
bureau Of agriculture, ard most heartily en-
dovo your positions therein taken. That
such an AGENCY Is demanded for tho benefit
and proper advancement OF our vitality Inn
porlant agricultural interests. oven among
our own home people, IL n fact proven, l
think, by oil our sitter states, old aud new,
having established md are maintaining them.
If an agricultural bureau is then shown TO
be for the interest Of our home farmers il
requires but littlo argument 10 show how
greatly it will add TO that interest TO have rs
part Of the duties Of such a bureau, the
official distribution Of the information it
would gather. While agreeing with you
that the commendsble efforts Of railroads,
associations and individuals are doing much
good, they have no authority from the state
TO act for it, and it occurs to me that 1t would
be as reasonable to expect that party could
advance with full success the interest of an
individual without any official authority
from such individual, as TO expect it for the
stste without such authority, All that could
be achieved by separate bureau of immi-
grafton could be secured by q properly or
ganized agricultural bureau, and al greatly
reduced expense, thus removing il is be-
lieved, the objections Of many to establishing
the former.
We will have two crop seasons between
now and the meeting Of the exposition in
1888. IL Fit can be made known to farmers
as we'll as those engaged in all other
pursuits among our people during the
present year that an exposition OF the pro-
ducts Of Ill kinds will be made by state au-
thority, nothing will be hazsrded in assum-
ing that every county in the state will be
represented in that exposition. Along with
our sister states and foreign countries we may
safely assume that we will then have 800 or
more. organized counties, the arranging of
which either sDgly or in groups, with speci-
mems of the products, mechanicism and re-
sources of each, will, it is confidently boz
feved, go further in making the EXTENT vari-
oty of climate and production of our empire
state known TO all the world, and will attract
to us more of the capital, energy and worth
from domestic and foreign sources than can
be done in a decade by the present policy we
are pursuing. That agriculture, which Is the
and may ADD, superstrueture of
all our permanent prosperity, is greatly de-
preseed,is well known to the mass of farmers.
The remark that "farn1ing don't pay" is get
ting to be very common, which would seem
to demand at the hands of the legislature
and people earnest and prompt efforts for lis
announcement. The distribution officially
Of information to those seeking it and making
known the same to others that they may seek
it, and the exposition of their products at
these great gatherings, having proven of very
great benefit in procuring labor and proomot-
ing successful advancement of agriculture,
and all other interests of those states that
have tried, it ought to induce us totryit. To
enable us to do that the constitution has to
be amended, and tits earnestly hoped that
the present legislature will let the people
decide by submitting it to their decision.
Respectfully, j. b. ROBERTSON.
WACO. Feb 3d. 1881.