The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-22
DEPARTMENT Of AGRICULTURE A
FACTOR IN DEMONSTRATION WORK

demonstration agent Tor one ol thr
populous counties of average area in
southeastern Texas whose practice Of
the principles of good farming as
laid down by the department covers
a period Of three years. In the midst
OF boil weeyil territory this agent IN
1911, produced lG II bales OF cot
ton, netting him 81 237 on IS acres,
and his corn averaged - bushels to
the acre. While to devote his time
to the work of demonstration Of farm
Ing methods among his neighbors in
wolves considerable sacrifice in a
monetary sense, he states his will
insaess TO make this sacrifice be
cause. TO quote his words, II am deep
~ Interested in the work and know
that our people will be greatly ben
Gifted. want to assist in pulling
out on the rut hundreds OF people
who now barely make a living by
robbing the land that refuses to be
robbed any longer
The infgluence of this demonstra-
tion work upon the rising generation
Of young people is most marked. The
agent herein referred to has a son.
II years OF age, who. inspired by his
fathers example. won first prize in
variety contests and also sweep
stakes prize over all. in competition
with other boys of his own and two
adjoining counties At the state fair
last fall the same boy won first prize
in the variety class and second prize
in sweepstakes. IN state wide com
petition. I'm contest before the Tex
as Industrial congress last winter he
was awarded "A prize OF 500 for hay
ing produced 81 - bushels OF corn
on an acre Of ground and for the
production of IT bales OF cotton on
an acre.
/ Both father and son attribute Their
success entirely TO the close applica
/ tion OF instructions sent out by the
Department Of Agriculture.
one OF the most encouraging lines
OF work which the Department o!
I Agriculture H. carrying on in the
south is the institution OF herd rec
ords on dairy farms. By this means
the Improbable COW Is detected and
can be disposed of for slaughter. The
hcifer calves from the profitable COWS
are raised 10 take the place of the
Improbable animals. In this way
the quality of the herd is steadily i'm
proved The daily weighing of the
milk and the testing for butteriat en-
able the dairyman TO feed the lndi-
vidual animals according to the pro-
duction and to select such feeds foI
the ration rs are shown to give the
best results.
The department receives many ret
ters from dairymen of the south bear
ing on the value of this work j. h
Morrison. a dairyman of Grenada
Mississippi writes as follows;
II write to express my great ap-
preCatiCn of the work done for mt
by your department
From the records kept | found Nv,
cows that produced over 5000 profit
One 81 loss. the other SlO3.S0. \ tw,
wear old heifer made $97.50 net prot
it. | began to test with six COWS.
have sold two of them as they wer,
unsatisfactory. have four more tia
have not finished the years test bu
will probably sell three of then
and replace with registered stoch.
THE butter | sell is put up IL
pasteboard cartons and brings ~
cents per pound. | get an average o
help to spread the gospel of bette
Il wish to assure you that shall
hedlp to spread the gospel of better
- n n
mole feeding of carbohydrate value.