Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-07-19


for the small percentage who are not the
county and state maintain an expensive
legal department. Engineering, in its
more technical phases, does not vtaly
effect a large proportion of the citizenship
yet many counties maintain county en-
ment. Few deaths require an inquest
but each county maintains coroner
Agriculture concerns not only each far
mer. but each business man and each
professional man in every agriculture
community. yet the percentage OF these
counties maintaining an agriculturist is
practically nil.
Agricultural colleges, through the work
of the farmers institutes. special trains,
articles in the public press. bulletins. etc.
have done great deal of good. but the
territory to be covered is SO vast that
their accomplishment, great as it has
been, is Lut small fragment of the work
that reeds doing and which they have
neither money nor men to do. How
much more could be accomplished by a
man, trained in the various phases of
agriculture, who would live and work in
a single c5unty, getting acquainted with
the farmers upon their own farms, find
ing out exactly what their pr oblems are.
for the problems of each farm are dis
tinct, and giving advice direct during the
time work was being done. Such man
could direct experiments upon the indi-
yidual farms and could help farmers to
have proved of benefi. upon other farms.
This is the ideal toward which the Crop
Improvement Committee of the Council
of American Grain exchange is working.
They realize that the progress of a new
movement is necessarily slow. and that
counties are likely to feel themselves al
ready burdened with officials. For this
reason. they are raising an endowment
fund to assist all counties who wish to
employ county agricultural experts to as
sist in increasing production.
A letter from the secretary of the Crop
Improvement committee outlines the fol-
lowing plan by which a portion of this
fund may De available 10 any county in
Colorado which meets its provisions:
I'VE have been authorized to offer the
sum of 100000. of which S 900 is to
oe given to each of the 100 counties in
any state that will raise a fund sufficient
10 employ a permanent scientific agricul-
turist and farm demonstrator upon the
following conditions:
First: That ,int meeting be called
by the commercial organization OF organ
izstions, to which there will be invited
editors. railroad men. road commission
ers, superintendent of the county farm.
the county supervisors. bankers, miers.
manufacturers. grain buyers, officers Of
all farmers ana breeders organszauons,
the leading farmers and land owners in the
township. This meeting to be Conducted
by a member of the Crop improvement
Committee of the Council Of Grain Ex-
change. explaining the nature of the
movement. and showing how, if proper
methods of agriculture and marketing
are introduced, that an annual increase
Of at least one-half million dollars may
be added to the revenus of the county.
Second: That a committee on crop
improveme mt and county development
be appointed by the president of the COM
meroial club; that the members OF this
committee shall act ex-officio as chair
me n OF the sub committees on ways and
means. membership. grain, good roads,
MARKETING, agriculture in the schools.
dairy Inspection, landlord and tenant, etc.
Third: That special section be add
ed to the constitution and bylaws Of
the commercial club providing for an
agricultural membership at a nomins
fee per year, in order to obtain a wide
spread special membership, placing the
farmer upon business basis. ests blish
ing him as business man among busl-
ness men.
Fourth: That the sum to be raised in
each county should equal annually one
cent per acre of all the tlllable land in
the county. ora minimum Of 500 to be
subscribed by farmers. land owners, ele-
vators, country merchants, professional
men, blaoksmiths. hotels. etc., in each
township.
Fifth: That an equal amount be con-
trIbuted by the commercial club. mer-
chants, manufacturers, bankers and busI
ness interests OF the county which shall
not be less than minimum of Sl00 for
each township in the county. This d.
vdes the financialresponsbility equitably
Sixth: That trained agricuturist Of
business tact and judgment shall be EN-
ployed by the committee as above set
forth. who shall be recommended by or
satisfactory to the dean of the State Col
lege of Agriculture.
That this man shall be responsible only