The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-10-15
AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Government Expert Will Start Oct
26 On Preliminary Tour.

0oV0l nluSuo hApelb Will oUaTG OcG
26 On Preliminary Tour.
, Dresden, Tenn, Oct. 9.--Just before
leaving Washington, Hon. Finis ]. Gar.
rett, representatives. in Congress from the
Ninth Congressional District of Tennes-
see, completed arrangements with the
United States Department of Agriculture
to begin the organization of what is
known as the Farmers cooperative
demonstration work in his Congression-
al District, but until now Mr.. Garrett
has been unable to make announcement
of dates. Concerning the project he
writes to The Commercial this week:
! am to-day in receipt of letters and
kilograms advising me that w. W.
Campbell, who has had charge of the
work in Texas, will reach Dresden on
Oct. %, and will have eight days to
devote to the preliminary trip over this
Congressional District. There are in
the district eight counties, and by so
arranging the route he will be able to go
into each of the counties of the district
and spend one day. The places and
dates are as follows:
Dresden, Oct. 26; Union City, Oct.
q; Ripley, Oct. 2S; Tiptonville, Oct.
80; Dyersburg, Oct. 80; Trenton, Nov. 1;
Alamo, Nov. 2; Brownsville, Nov. 8.
Il cannot, " said Mr.. Garrett, go in
to the details of the work, but in a
general way the plan is this The rep
resentative of the department agrees
with the farmers who are willing to enter
into contract to cultivate a given number
of acres of a standard crop, strictly ac-
cording to the directions and instructions
OF the Department of Agriculture; that
the department will furnish free to such |
farmers signing the contract the best
quality of seeds, and representative of
the department will visit the farm on
which the crop is growing as often as
possible and will give the farmer in
structlons as to breaking and preparing
the soil and as to the cultivation of the
crop. In other words, it carries an ex-
perimental station right to the farmers
home. The farmer will not be required
to read bulletin or hear speech and
5ry to remember its details and apply
hem-he will actually have the work
lone before him-will indeed do it him {
elf and have the benefit of the re- 9
searches of the United States Agricul-
ural Department ;
have also arranged with the de- ,
at Washington to send experts .
0 this Congressional District to deliver i
series of agricultural addresses. These =
meetings will begin on Nov. 15 as fol- q
0ws Dresden, Nov 10; Union CITY. 6
'ov. 16; Trenton, Nov. II; Humboldt. T
'ov Is; Alamo, Nov. 49, Bells, Friday =
light, Nov. 10; Brownsville, Nov. 20: h
iipley, Nov. %; Dyersburg, Nov. 2S; o
iptonyille, Nov. "a One of the fea- G,
Tres of these meetings will be practi- n
Al address by G. o. Eldridge upon $,
Roads and Road Building" Night a,
lettings will be beld at all points ex- $,
'pt Alamo, and Mr. Eldridge will give D
address illustrating it with stereop- es
can views.
I hope to have the cooperation of
y constituents in these matters, fully =,
'lieving it will rebound to the good of ;,
concerns. =,
Mr.. Garrett is mailing out several =
ousand letters daily to citizens of the =,
NTH Congressional District, announc- :.
these dates and anticipates large -
diences at each appointment. n: