The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-01-20
farmers CO.
OPERATIVE WORK
AN IMPORTANT ADDRESS ISSUED
BY DISTRICT AGENT
B. L. MOSS.
Urges Farmers TO Cooperate scith County
Agricultural Commissioner J.
L. Buchanan.
L. Buchanan.

This work was first organized in 1904
the state of Texas, with view to
mitigating as much as possible the serious
eanic and decentralization resulting from
1eA invasion of the Mexican boil weevil
his decentralization had become wide
pread and severe, and was affecting all
les of industry. AT first only a few
gents were employed and only a few
demonstrations were made but as the
York increased in success and popularity
md as the boil weevil came eastward and
emand and necessity for it increased
p that today nearly 900 demonstration
gents are employed in nearly all parts
the south.
The basic principle undertaking the
armer's Cooperative Demonstration work
that seeing is believing. People get
ackS of bulletins and listen to lectures
v the hour without being greatly in
uenced; but when you demonstrate on
mans own or his neighbors farm the
ilue of some new method, he is quick
81 appreciate it to his own uses. 1t is a
Ease where a little example is superior
10 world of precept
Now just n word TO what we are at
tempting TO teach. Let il be understood
o the beginning that in no sense is thi.
work experimental. Everything we ad-
v6cate and put into practice on our de-
monstrations has been worked out and
eried for years by our state experiment
ltions and the investigative bureaus OF
le National Department of Agriculture
hese things have been proven scores of
times by the best agricultural authori-
ties in the country, and have been found
% pay. To secure the general adoption
IF these paying methods among all clas-
SEES of farmers is, the function of our work
The adoption of these means more BUSH
els per acre and more bales per acre, and
these mean greater prosperity to every
commercial and industrious interest in the
State.
The boil weevil has now almost covered
South Mississippi, and the necessity for
better methods of farming is rapidly be-
coming more apparent. But even if the
boil weevil had never been heard of, the
methods advocated by the Department
would have been of untold value These
methods simply mean better farming, and
let it be understood at once that all the
approved methods of fighting the boil
weevil mean only this ;Diversifcation-
some cotton, more corn, more oats, more
kwpeas and more hogs and cattle-hert
is the corner stone upon which all future
agricultural success must rest.
Mr.. ]. L. Buchanan, of Brandon Miss.
has been employed by the Department as
local demonstration agent for Rankin
County. 1t will be his duty to establish
and direct, by agreement with the owners
IS or 20 demonstration farms in the
county. Among the things demonstrated
will be the proper cilcling of rows to
prevent washing, the value of thorough
preparation of the land, winter cover
crops and pastures, the value of good seed
in both corn and cotton, proper methods
of cultivation, the right use of CONNER
cial fertilizers, value of barnyard ma
nures, and the necessity Of crop rotations
with plenty of cowpeas grown for soil
improvement.
Mr.. Buchanan was selected to carry
o,n this work because he is a practical
sn~ree, full farmer, and has been putting
into one, alton on his own place at least
rar+ of the methods we advocate. Hs
AN speak from. experience But even
this were not rue, remember thai
hen the local agent l. no you 'Ni"s
bout farming he is not merely CIV
ing you his experience or thas any
other one man, but he is giving Tor 'l'
boiled down results gotten by the 'es'