The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-05-30
THE ADVISOR AND HIS WORK

visor for the Benton County Crop
improvement Association, is now
we'll established in his office in
the Bank of Kennewick building.
MIR. Lamson was born and raised in
kllckitat county and in partner
ship with his father and brother he
conducted a hay and dairy farm at
Wapato for number of years. He
is now interested in the develop
ment OF 1O.acre fruit tract at that
place.
Mr.. Lampson graduated from
the State College at Pullman in
1909 and has had three years of
practical experience and one year OF
teaching since leaving school. A
brief summary of the work of the
advisor is given below:
He will acquaint himself as rapid.
ly as possible with the general ag-
ricultural conditions of the locality,
study the various types of soil, the
crops that have been found to be
best adapted, and the types of farm
ing that have been most successful
on each type of soil.
He will spend his entire time in
the interests of improved farming in
the section, studying the methods
and practice of the most successful
farmers who are following the vari-
Gus types of farming. He will visit
the farmers on their farms, study
their plans and aid them in form
ing better plans.
He will study in detail the
methods Of the farmers in prepar-
ing their land for seeding, the
methods of cultivation, the kind of
fertilizer used, the kinds of seed
how it is selected and kept, how the
crop is gathered and disposed Of.
He will study the live stock on the
various farms and the methods of
handling the stock. He will study
every phase of all the farms he visits
so that he may know what methods,
crops and systems are best for the
locality, and at all times wherever
he goes he will give the farmers the
benefit of the information he gets.
He will also give the farmers the
benefit of the results of scientific
Investigations conducted by the var
ious experiment stations and the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
relating to all kinds of farm prac-
tice.
| He will study the agricultural
tendencies and possibilities of the
locality, and study the relations OF
the agriculture of the county to that
of the neighboring counties of the
state. He will study market condi-
tons, means of transportation, and
shipping facilities.
By the time he has become &C
quainted with each farmer in the
locality together with the type of
farming he is conducting and the
methods and practices that he uses,
he should have acquired know
ledge of the agriculture of that To-
cality which will enable him to
quickly analyze the situation on
any farm he may visit, detect de-
fects in the cropping systems and
| federal management and at the
same time note any improvements
that may exist over methods in COM
mon use.
Such a study will enable him to
advise the farmers in the establish
ment of better cropping systems on
their farms, in the intelligent selec-
ton of better live stock, better seed
and better markets. He becomes
an agricultural advisor to the farm
ers of that section and his opportu-
mites for broad study of general
conditions enable him to under
stand better than anyone else the
direction in which the agriculture
of that locality should be directed.
His work among the farmers not
only enables him to know the best
practices which will result in the
greatest yield of crops per acre and