The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-06-08
FARM CONDITIONS IN SOUTH
"e'e COOPERATION Has Not Been
successful There Prima Facie
evidence of "Hoq."

mere Prima FacIe
Evidence of "Hoq."
course OF an address deiiv-
eteu ny State Agent 8. l.. Moss of AL
aoanla at the Southern Educational
inference, recently held at Nashville,
rem, he said in reference to co-onera.
ton: eneo ~
ASIDE from the Farmers union and
.ne press, both OF which have done
ana are doing much commendabIe
WORK, we have three distinct agencies
~ Alapama that are Iaboring for the
retirement OF agricultural conditions.
lnese are the state department OF ag-
l1euieure' the agricultural college and
experiment stations and the national
uepartment OF agriculture. Realizing
'nat steady pull and all together
WIZ secure Tar more satisfaction and
| lasilnS fesults, II has been Sour con-
| slant aim to secure a harmonious IN.
operatlon between these varied agen-
cies' Ih1s we believe we have at
'alneo to a marked degree.
NOW, just word with reference to
cooperation. l believe that am
prepared to lay down this proposition.
nalnely, that where it is impossible to
cooperate, it is prima facie evidence
lhat there are one or several hogs in
one or all of the organizations in cues
tloh. The state agent of the demon
stfatlon work may be the guilty swine.
VI IL may be the commissioner of agrt-
culture, or the director of experiment
stations Just who Is responsible in
such case is difficult to determine,
sihce each man lays the blame on the
otner- However, the patent fact re-
mains that in this work of carrying
information to the farmer there is en-
1lrely too much duplication of work,
TOO much OF a desire TO claim credit
Tor results accomplished, and too
much OF tendency to decry and be-
lttle the efforts OF the other fellow.
many men have lost sight of the fact,
II they ever perceived it, that the pub
llc welfare is the goal of the efforts
OF every real public servant.
81 wish tW make a plea for tho other
fellow. Just as l believe that all
knowledge has some value in educa-
ton, SO do believe that the efforts or
all those engaged in the dissem1na-
ton OF agricultural information are
destined to bear fruit. 1t is unjust, I'M
wise and highly undiplomat1c for
demonstration worker to place him.
sell IN skeptical attitude toward our
state departments of agriculture and
our colleges and experiment stations
and the undeniabIy excellent work |
they are doing. And the rule reversed
is equally true. So let us be charitable |
toward those who in reality are our
Fellow workers, though possibly along
lines; and when we do we
u-ually invoke the Golden Rule as the
guiding spirit in the attitude OF the
other man.
None OF us claim to nave attained
perfection down our way; but we have
been able to establish our work on
what we have been told is an excellent
cooperative basis, unifying as it does
the best efforts Of the different agen-
cies in the state. Not only are we CO.
operating, but we are pleased with the
results and We believe the people OF
Alabama are. So much so, that we
hope, some time in the near future,
trough cooperative arrangement, to
have really well organized state At
present we are only comparatively
we'll organized. When Alabama has,
N each OF her 81 counties, highly
adequately paid agent,
six days in the week for II
months in the year, l believe then, and
only then, can we boast of we'll or
sanized state.
DIR. knapp, the best and g.eatest
nan l ever knew, christened wisely
when he named our work the Co
operative Demonstration Work." for
lie foresaw, even then, that the more
quickly all agencies joined hands to
Freak down the barriers OF ignorance
md build up a progressive, prosperous
agriculture. the sooner would our
southern states blossom into that
ruitfulness of wealth and citizenship
o which nature has entitled them.
What success we have attained In
demonstration work in Alabama has
,een based on this idea; and all that
We hope for in the future OF our work
$, in my opinion, to be attained
through these means"