Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-05-19
u. s. AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
OFFERS EXPERT TO TAKE
CHARGE OF WORK IN CAMERON
] AND HIDALGO COUNTIES.
r COUNTIES COOPERATE
DEPARTMENT AGENT REX f. Will
LARD HERE IN INTEREST OF
PLAN-COUNTIES MAY APPRO-
PIRATE $1,000 A YEAR FOR THIS
WORK.

Cameron and HidalgO county farmers
will soon have to their benefit the ser
vices of a man from the farm manage
ment section of the United States De
partment of Agriculture, if the purpose
of the visit to this section of Rex f
Willard of College Station, head Of farm
management work of the department III
Texas is successful. Mr.. Willard, who is
in the city today, is feeling out the de
sires of the farmers in these two counties
on the proposition, and if the county
commissioners of the two counties will
each appropriate $1,000 a year for the
purpose a first class man will be given by
the state laws.
On the matter Mr.. Willard said to-
day.
THE office of Farm Management and
Texas Experimental Station and the com
munities of the Lower Rio Grande Val
ley will cooperate in securing the ser
vices of a man to carry on farm man
agement and farm demonstration educa-
ton in the counties of Cameron. and Hi
dalgO. The work will consist of investiga-
ton of farming methods, farm practises,
farm organization, the adoption of crops
the ACCESSIBILITY from a marketing stand
point of planting certin crops, and other
matters of vital interest to the farmers.
1.-The man in charge of the work here
will gather all available information
touching OF these matters from the var
iOus Texas experimental stations and the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, and will disseminate that informal
ton though personal visits to the farm
ers, through the press and by pamphlets
especially prepared for the purpose. The
work will consist also of the investigating
of cost of production. the value of various
crops, and methods of irrigation and he
will endeavOr to have the farmers keep
their W records of labor and other fin
ancial costs.
I'm fact the expert here will be a man
who will be in the field in this region at
all times, travelling up and down the
valley, gathering the best information.
and seeing that it gets to the farmers.
"FOr this purpose, it is our intention
10 secure the SctNlCtS VI IL IldI VI dDllltN
who will devote his entire time to the
work, at a salary that will make it worth
his while. The work will be organized and
planned by men as a representative of
the Department of Agriculture. and will
furnish the various necessary equipment
such as forms for securing information,
and general administration assistance.
Farm management work i'll Texas is
now carried on in coopertion between
the United States Department of Agricul-
ture and the Texas Experimental Sta
tons. Director Youngblood of the Texas
stations is asking the legislature for
an appropriation of $1,000 yearly to co
operate with Il department in carrying
ont this work in Texas. If it is possible
to raise 5000 annually in Cameron and
HidalgO counties, half this amount to
be paid by each county, a portion of the
5000 appropriation expected from the
state vii be used to assist in this work.
The matter of the appropriation will
come up before the special session in
July.
sThe state law of Texas provides that
county commissioners of each county
may appropriate at their discretion $1,000