Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-12-19
FARM EXPERT
RECOMMENDED
Report of Rural Credit Com
mission Says Every County
Should Employ One
FARMERS ALL NEED HIM
The Farmer Should Manage
Affairs as Would Manufac-
turer or Merchant


agricultural county should take ad-
vantage of the law providing for en-
ployment of a county agricultural ex-
pert is the belief of the Washington
members of American rural credits
commission, stated in report pre-
sented to Governor Lister, following
last summers study Of credit condi-
tons in European countries.
Continuing in their report. the
Washington commissioners state:
The most important law for the
farmer passed by the last legislature,
chapter 1S, providing for Bureau
of Farm Development and the employ
ment of an agricultural expert in
each county, has been neglected by
most counties. In every agricultural
county farmers should demand that
they be given the advantage Of t. is
law A manufacturer and merchal
employs an efficiency engineer. One
of the largest eastern manufacturers
called such a man from distant city,
handed him a check book and told
him he had deposited check of $780,
900 to his order He wanted GER
tain small reduction in his cost Of
manufacture of each machine he was
turning out, whether by devising la
Dor saving machinery or other means
he cared not. And he said if the
$4,000 was not enough, there was
plenty more available. He was turn
ing out many thousand machines y
year, and a dollar or two reduction
on cost of each meant an increase
of five or six figures in his profits
The farmer has not been able to do
this; he can do it under this law
with no expense; he needs it more
than the manufacturer. There is
plenty of very valuable information
in books and government bulletins
but the only plan that will work is
to carry right to the farmer the an
swer to his personal problem. This
law provides the way.
agricultural education in schools
and high schools should be made
practical and emphasized 1t should
be available to the farmer as well
as to the schoolboy. School labora
tories should be available for soil
analyses, which are neglected by our
educational authorities. If practica
BILE there should be a demonstration
farm in connection with high school
instruction. where farmers may be
shown the enormous difference right
farming makes, while the boys are
being taught to farm right: where
the effect of planting the right seed,
using the right rotation, preserving
fertility by the right fertilizer, will
stand out in Natures book, forcing
attention, and not be smothered in
books and bulletins molding on for
gotten shelves. Such a demonstra-
ton farm would be of infinite value
to the county agricultural expert.
"Standardizing crops and stock is
greatly needed and will necessarily
come with cooperative marketing.
Cooperation eliminates most of the
middlemen and Of the superfuous du-
plication of process of distribution
which causes a fearful economic
waste for the producer. Our apple
growers must realize that there have
been hundreds Of thousands OF apple
trees planted all over the country
and hundreds of abandoned orchards
in the East revitalized. Whatever
the superiority of Washington fruit,
salvation depends upon a genuine
cooperative organization, strenuous
campaign for increased and ever wild
ening markets and marketing upon a
scientific basis. And the same prin-
ciple applies to all of our products
in every part of the state.'