Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1910-08-12
LINFIELD'S AND
SHAW'S ADDRESSES
CONTINUED From First Page.)

Civ. them information about our
wo,k here. They say. These educa-
tional works men and experimental
station men come up here and gobble
all the money in the treasury. There
is nothing left for us fellows" /
don't know who they referred to, but
that is the idea that is presented.
want to say that is not so-that is
not so, and | want you to think about
these things, because the decrease in
the state revenue, if this tax goes
down, means that the state will lose
next year more money out of its total
revenue than the educational work OF
this state costs all together. The
whole amount of money put into the
educational work of this state, the de-
crease in the assessment of three hum
dred thousand dollars in round num-
bers, is fifty thousand dollars more
than all that work costs. Where is
the state going to support this thing?
Where are you going to get the
money to carry it on if this is a
good thing? This is educational
work. Looking at it from my stand
point-you may say l am partisan.
am engaged in this work; I want to
make it a success and get everything
| can out of it and help all can
along those lines, but to do that we
have got to have the funds, and | be-
lieve, ii the farmers of this state will
recognize the situation and see where
i'll the shoe is going to pinch. that
they are going to support thing of
that kind and enable us to go ahead
with that kind of work. Now before
you leave here, you are going to have
time enough, and | want you to go
out and look over these crops,-look
over the crops. Now there are
enough Of us here, from the stand
point OF the college, and those men
at work there to explain all those
things. We have twenty acres de-
voted to crop rotation, twenty acres
devoted to the varieties, another
thirty or forty acres devoted to diff
terent miscellaneous experiments or
metolds OF cropping. the amount Of
seed to use, the method OF cultiva-
ton, and great many things Of that
kind, and want you to look those
over Those crops are the results
that are obtained III year such as
this. and while some Of the crops are
cut, 4 good many Of them are out
there yet, and you can see something
OF the results that we are enabled
to obtain when the rainfall here since
the beginning Of the year is only
six and sixtythree one hundredths
inches since January L. We have had
this year only about onc-tlird OF the
rainfall that we had last year. At
this place last year thirty inches OF
rain fell-not up to this time, but
during the whole year At the rate
that We are going this year we will
have less than half the rainfall OF
last year, and up to date we have had
only about onc-th:rd the rainfall
Now, when we can get these crops III
dry year. under favorable conditions
we ought to do very much better
But, as I called your attention to be-
fore. you must play the game, you
must do things right. We are up
against hard proposition and you
must adapt yourselves to it. and il
you will master the problem. you arc
masters Of the job. That is the
thought that I would like to leave
With you: and | thank you again fol
YOUR presence here on this occasion
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