The Cairo bulletin., 1912-01-17
BILL WILL AID
ALL FARMERS
Represent .tiys Introduce Measure
to put Expert in Each
County


bill of great import will be intro
duced in the House Of Representa-
tives on Wednesday, Jan II, by Rep
resentative Lever of South Carolina
and on the same day it will be pre-
sentcd in the Senate Jointly by Sem
ators HIoke Smith and Pare. The
bill provides further endowment and
support of Agricultural Colleges to
enable them to assisf in getting into
practice the best methods of agri-
culture evolved by operation Of the
plan of establishing and maintain
ing Agricultural Colleges and Ex-
pertinent Stations in the various
states.
This measure is the joint work of
the National Soil Fertility League,
the Executive Committee of the Col
leges of Agriculture and the states
men above named 1t is in line with
the Presidents recommendation in
his address at the National Conser-
walton Congress at Kansas City, Mo,
Septemb Der 25th, 1911, it has the
support of the House leaders of both
parties, and it may be regarded as
an omni-parti5an measure,
TO Push Best Methods.
According to the general plan out
If which this measure springs, it is
proposed that the procedure shall
consist of getting into general prac-
ice the best methods known Of
scientific agriculture by employing
trained agriculturists, or practica:.
farm demonstrators, skilled in the
most approved methods Of farm
practice, to take to the farmer on
his own farm the information or
knowledge that will enable him,
the latter, to interpret and adapt to.
his local conditions the best meth
DDS Of farming. In plain terms, it
viii as rapidly as possible, place a
rained, practical man, selected and
directed ty the respective state ag-
ricultural colleges, permanently in
each agricultural county of the
United States, and enable the farm
er to become master Of his calling,
aided by the best service the country
can furnish, and supported by Fed
eral and state funds.
According to the provisions Of the
bill there will be an appropriation
beginning at the rate Of less than
one cent per capita and viii approx
innate three cents per capita by the
tims the annual appropriation shall
nave increased from 100000 per
wear, the starting point, to little
| over three million dollars. when it
reaches the maximum. To have q
clear idea of the distribution of
| these funds it must be understood
that each' state receiving its share
of the fund must appropriate ar
equal amount for this purpose
Will Increase
| Most authorities have expressed
| the belief that the operation of this
plan will in few years increase the
| farm output at least 20 por cont
That means an increase of wealth
| per capita Of about $50 per an.
num- and it adds to the country's
assets four and one-half billions in
national resources. THE average
acreage of Europe gives from two to
three times the yield of the Ameri-
can farms notwithstanding their
soil has been producing for CEN
turtles more than the lands have
been cropped here.
In the Presidents opinion this
promises to be the most valuable
constructive legislation of recent
years Speaker Clark says the mind
cannot grasp the benefits that
| should grow out of this movement.
Majority Leader Underwood express
es the belief that it will do NOR
good 70 the people than any other
single enactment in generation
Mr.. H. II, Gross, of Chicago, presi-
dent of the National Soil Fertility
League, says he has submitted this
spetifi plan to every Agricultural
College in the land, there has been
no adverse criticism and about 81
per cent have strongly endorsed It;
it has been approved by about four
hundred public bodies, such as
boards Of trade, commercial associa-
tions, business mems clubs, womens
clubs, etc. and nearly thousand
influential newspapers have express
ed a Willingness to support it,