The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-20

animation. before promotions or assign
ments are extended them. In this way it
strikes me only best results can be OBJ
tanned. Aspirants to office may find
place in some of these many depart
ments.
You may ask how many bureaus should
be under each agricultural head or es-
tablished by each state department of
agriculture. The answer is as many as
are necessary to do the great work of a
great state. If you object to the COM
missioner of agriculture or the board of
agriculture creating or establishing these
several bureaus then l would suggest
that these departments be created by the
legislatures of the states.
The fertilizer business, so far as l
know, is In the hands of the commission
er of agriculture. The analyses of ferti-
lizers are made by the state chemists
under the direction of the commissioner
of agriculture-this is well and good; this
may be termed your bureau of chemistry
and all chemical questions should be re-
ferred to this department.
Forestry Preservation.
The forestry preservation, sawmil and
lumber business, certainly is OF SUFFICIENT
magnitude to require for it bureau OF
forestry Other departments should be
established and in order that forces and
money could be best conserved the COM
missioner of agriculture or board of agri-
culture, as the case may be, should refer
to these departments from time to time
as they arise such subjects as pertain to
me respective departments for investi-
CATION.
The questions of immigration and public
information are closely allied to the sta
tistical question, hence should your COM
missioner of agriculture have these in
hand or under his control when an i'm
migration agent or commissioner is sent
out he could use all the information, not
only as collected by the statistical pu-
reau but all the information of all of the
departments of agriculture could be
turned into the hands OF any one man for
use in settling or carrying out any ques-
ton or problem. Then there comes up
the question involved In the cooperation
with the government at Washington, such
as the crop demonstration and soil sur
vey work, the Texas fever or tick eradi-
cation work and many other question.
We believe the best results can be OBJ
tanned and greatest good will come to the
| states by a cooperation that can be sys-
| tematically carried out by the one head
| of the state working with the one head
| of the government at Washington.
Soil Survey Work.
| The soil survey work and the crop
| demonstration work are closely inter-
| linked. It Is absolutely necessary to
know your soil, both as to its physical
and chemical conditions, before best re-
| suits can be obtained from the crop
| demonstration work and here again 10 q
! strong appeal for departmental heads CO.
| operating and using the information OBJ
| tanned from different Investigations made
by the several bureaus.
! We would not be understood as dis
| posed to infringe upon any scientific re-
search made by our colleges or schools,
| for contend that all scientific conclusions
] emanating from the schools should DO 40
| copied by the commissioners and their
bureaus as conclusive and work should
be predicated very largely, If not entire
| ly on the work of our colleges. You
will please permit me to say at this point
that the commissioner of agriculture who
refuses to cooperate and work hand In
hand with the agricultural college Of his
state will be the loser thereby, because,
after all, the success of agriculture de-
ponds upon an agricultural education and
we would suggest further that the COL
leges of our states will enhance their
cause by hearty cooperation with the ag-
ricutural departments.
Model for State Work.
Now, gentlemen. beg to say in con-
illusions that unless we in the states
model our work closely after that at
Washington we can not hope to obtain
maximum results. nor will the greatest
good come to our states and people
Again, wish 1t were possible to have the
laws pertaining to and governing our ag-
ricultural departments In the southern
states more uniform
This is day and age Of concentration
and the conservation of forces and re-
sources in the business world. This rule,
II 1t works well In promoting finance and
business should also work well In the
states and among the states. I make
no reference here to the question Of fed
eral heads and of the concentration Of
power in the federal head to the detrlment
of the states. which might also invade
the rights OF the Individual pr the masses,
but my references and DISCUSSION refer