The Washington herald., 1913-03-09
Demonstration Work Will Be Extended to Every County in
the United States-$1600o0 Appropriated
for the Purpose by Last Congress-

appointed as farm demonstrators and are
now on their way to various sections Of
the country. Before sending these men to
their stations they We're all assembled in
Washington and given instructions con-
cerninS their work in the field. This
meeting was held the latter part of Janu-
, airy of this year, and the agents are now
on the ground getting ready for the spring
planting. Each man Will cover certain
| territory and will travel from farm to
farm giving advice and help whenever
desired In this way one man will acquire
knowledge suited TO that particular sec
| ton. In order to get definite information
on the experience of two or three nearby
neighbors, but on the results accom-
plished on hundreds of farms in that sec
ton. In order to get definite information
on any subject, men OF science take the
results gathered by enumerators from
millions of people scattered over the
| whole world and base their conclusions
upon these illustrative cases. In this way
they get an accurate forecast of what TO
expect in the future.
So il will be with the new plan of send
ing the farm demonstrators throughout
the United States. These men. all of
whom will have had practical experience
on the farm, will pass from farm to farm
and give the individual farmer the bene-
fit of the actual experience and knowledge
gained in this way. The government aims
to give directly TO soil tillers the benefit
of all those experiments and experience
which might otherwise remain bound up
in official papers and reports. And in the
end 1t is expected that farm demonstra-
tors Will be found in every agricultural
county of the Union.
Uncle Sans Farm Demonstrator.
Clarence B. Smith is Uncle Sans chief
farm demonstrator at Washington He
is man who has put in the greater part
of his life in the study of farms as well
as practical farmer. His younger days
were spent in gathering knowledge at
first hand by doing all sorts of labor upon
the farm. Later on IN life he decided
there was more to farm work than ap-
peared on the surface. So he decided
to get next to the Agricultural Depart
ment and try out some of the new
tangled ideas of the book farmers His
success in this line was So great that il
attracted the attention of the authorities
at Washington. who finally offered him a
job as one OF Uncle Sans book farmers.
In this way he became connected with the
government work and only recently was
placed in charge of the new plan extend
ing farm demonstrations to every section
of the country.
I'VE expect to carry on the work in
the North and the West along the same
lines as was followed in the Southern
States" said he, in talking TO the writer
upon the latest plan of Uncle Sam We
expect to employ men who have had a
training equivalent TO that given in our
best agricultural colleges as a first requi-
site. Second, all OF them must have been
brought up on a farm and be familiar
hope TO get men who have been out Of
college from three TO five years and have
been practcng farming or agricultural
training or in some other line of agricul-
tural work in the meantime. Fourth
every man will be a resident of the coun-