The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1912-12-30
IS APPOINTED
DEMONSTRATED
BY U. s. GOVERNMENT
JOHN w. PARLIER, APPOINTEE,
ADDRESSES FARMERS IN AN
OPEN LETTER.

GDrTos LOG CABIN DEMOCRAT:
| would like very much to let the
people of Faulkner county know that
4 will be the demonstration agent
for the agricultural department of
Faulkner county for next year, and
hope to be of assistance to the farm
ers of Faulkner county.
| want the farmers, and in fact. all
of the citizens of Faulkner county to
feel free to call on me and to stop me
on the road or anywhere and ask me
any question pertaining to better
farming and stock-raising, and any,
thing they want to know about rural
improvement; say anything about
good roads or county schools or
churches, or anything for the upbuild-
ing of country life, or anything that
| can help them in any way, / am at
your service.
Of course | know that there are
some people who don't think that the
government can learn them ANYTHING
about farming, but want these peo-
pie to just stop and think for mo-
ment, and see for themselves. | want
to tell any and all that the govern
ment can no more afford to send men
out to mislead the farmer than YOU
can afford to mislead your children
and besides, the government has spent
millions of dollars in the experiment
stations in the various states to see
what is best and how to get the best
results from our efforts in farming.
So this is no experiment; it is simply
demonstration work pure and simple
the same as a school teacher will
ask scholar to get up and demon
strate on the blackboard and show the
other scholars how to work a certain
sum; that is all there is to this dem
onstration work
Now, good people, if you are look
ing for a high-collared dude for an
agent, you will be very much disap-
pointed in me, for l am just plain,
old-fashioned farmer, and was born
and raised ON farm in North Geor-
gia, and | can say something that
doubt very much if there IS a farmer
in Faulkner county can say, and that
is, the first suit of clothes | ever wore
/ spun the thread after | had worked
all day, while my good old mother
carded the roles, and we did this by
a pine knot fire at that, and was the
proudest little fellow you ever saw
with that suit on.
But for all that, they say in old
Georgia that | was one of the best
farmers in North Georgia, and before
| went to work in the demonstration
work | took course in agriculture
at the experiment station at the Uni
versity of Arkansas, and | went back
and took another course, and | can
tell you all that what l learned in
those two courses is worth more to me
in farming than all that had learned
in all my life, and all that | have
learned and all that / knew besides,
is at your service.
Now let us get busy and make
Faulkner county bloom as it has new
er bloomed before We can do it if
we will just get busy Let us raise
something for the county fair next
fall, and let us all cooperate and
have the best county fair ever held in
the grand old state of Arkansas.
Now, | hope to meet you all just as
soon as | can. | will spend this week
in the river bottoms and then will
take in the hill country, and get
around to you all just as soon as I
can, and | know we will do something
that we will all be proud of this fall.
for you all have been very highly rec
commended to me, and | know quite a
lot of very fine people up around Mar
tinville and vicinity
Very truly yours,
JOHN w. PARLIER,