The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-12
GRAHAM GOES To
LOVE COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS AND BUSINESS
MEN SUPPLEMENT SALARY
GROWTH OF FARM WORK.

Love county has the finest oppor-
tunity in the state to make rapid
developments the coming year In an
agricultural way. The comfy is of
small area but it will have the eXclu
sive time of the best district agri
cultural agent in Oklahoma. We do
not mean to say this flatteringly of
| Mr.. Graham, who has been sent there,
but his record in the state places him
at the head of the list of men who
teach agriculture. When Mr. Crab
assigned the three counties. Many
farmers thought as he was a govern
ment man that he therefore must be
partisan republican, and these dem
ocratic farmers did not like the idea
of being dictated to by man of that
class Again farmers pooh poohed
| the idea that they needed instruc-
tion many of them held this opin
| ion, and the work made slow progress.
| Finally the territory assigned the
| agent was reduced to two counties
Love and Carter Beginning with the
close of this fiscal year, June 30 the
work will be confined to Love county.
| Whether Carter county has man at
all will depend upon what the county
does.
As the work of Mr.. Graham pro-
Quanted with him. They learned he
was not taking any part in politics.
they learned he was silent in the
board and anti-board fight that was
waged in the state prior to the cleo
ton of the present board. They
learned further that those who CO.
operated with the agent were making
the best yields of crops. Prejudice
died away and a better system of
farming has taken its place.
The area of Love county being
small, the lands there being highly
productive, the agent will be able to
do his best work. The last two weeks
OF June under the old management
belongs to Love county and begin
ming next Monday Mr.. Graham will
devote his entire time to the inter
day of September he will have visited
every section of the county, he Will
have come in contact with every
farmer who desires to cooperate with
him the next year and that means
that he will have come in contact
with those who will make the best
profits out of farming another year.
The work of Mr.. Graham in Carter
county has revolutionized farming in
this county. Those who at first held
aloof from the work are now getting
the advice of Mr.. Graham. They
have learned that he knows the work
md is able to give them advice that
lightens theeir work and increases
their yields.
Mr.. Graham was given his prefer
ence between Carter and Love coun-
ties. His home was in this county,
his children were in the Ardmore
schools and he would rather have re-
mained here. But Love county saw
the opportunity and took advantage
of it, The board of commissioners
will ask the excise board to levy a
tax that will raise $500 for the work,
the business men OF Marietta raised
500 and the federal government will
supplement the fund with $500, which
will give Mr.. Graham $1,000 for his
years work Carter county was sleep
ing, it slept a little too long and when
Mr.. Graham was called upon to take
his choice as between the two coun-
ties he chose Love county for the
reason that his salary was sure there
and it was not known whether Carter
county would have an agent another
year. There is a greater demand for
agents than there are men qualified
to fill TIE places. The government
movement has created a wider inter.
est in the A. & NJ. college and the
time is coming when only graduates
of agricultural colleges will be en-
ployed for this work and there is also
a time coming when salaries will be
paid for this work that will induce
the best brains of the country to take
up agriculture as profession.
Counties which pay from $4,000 to
$4,000 a year for the services of a |
man who has a nowledge of agricul-