The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-10-15
COUNTY AID FOR
BOYS CORN CLUB
COUNTY LEVYING COURT WILL
BE ASKED TO MAKE APPRo.
PRIATIoN FOR WORK.
{. w. Watson, Special Agent of Dem
onstration Work, viii Address Re.
guest to Next Meeting.

At the next meeting of the Garland
county levying court, which will be
held in this city Wednesday. October
rs, there will be placed before that
body a communication from c. W.
Watson, special agent for the depar;.
ment of agriculture, Bureau of Plant
Industry, of the United States govern.
ment, which, while having no direc.
affiliation with the state fair. will
nevertheless, have some effect where
that organization is concerned fog
the reason that action on the com.
munication, which deals with farm
demonstration work, the Boys Corn
Club and the Girls Canning Club, are
| Involved
The levying court will consider an
appropriation to assist in the work of
! the foregoing. In his communication
to this body Mr.. Watson states that
while most OF the counties have con,
trdbutcd literally to this work there
are some counties that have not and
among the appropriations made for
these features this month We're the
following:
County aid, thirty counties, $23.-
323.37; private subscriptions, twenty
two counties, $29,S0O; federal aid
100000, or a total Of s92,123.37
Continuing, Mr. Watson saws.
The above funds were used in the
employment of 81 local demonstration
agents and Is canning club agents in
Arkansas. TAree district agents were
also furnished. In addition to this
free bulletins were furnished by the
United States department of agricnl-
ture and the college Of agriculture Of
the University of Arkansas. This
year there will be at the disposal of
the local agents corps of experts
from the collee eof agriculture OF III
University of Arkansas who will ma
terially assist the local agents in sc
tuiulS Tue pest results.
Tie following propositions are to be
respectfully submitted to the lev5ing
court, considering the Slight increase
in federal aid for this state this year.
If the levying court will appropriate
$40 the United States government
VIII allow $3.50: If $3.50 is apprcpr-
ated the federal aid will be s420; for
a 81 600 appropria ion the govern
ment will give $500, and for an a.-ro-
priation of S1,740 Uncle Sam" stands
ready to contribute $3.50
1t is also planned to distribute the
above table of federal and county aid
in this manner:
$500 for agent employed months
at $SS.SS per month.
$1,000 for agent employed IL
months at 800 per month.
$1,000 for agent employed -
months at $l25 per month.
$1,000 for two agents employed l.
months at 800 per montA
The state fair officials are lookins
forward with pleasant anticipation TO
the exhibit to be made by the Boys
Corn Club and the Girls Canning
Club, and the work that the govern
ment demonstrators have been doine
in Arkansas the past few years has
been of inestimable value in arousing
greater interest in scientific farming
and mailing this procedure where az
ricultural development is concerned
possible. 1t has been owing to the
fact that farmers all over Arkansas
have been adopting the scientific
method of farming that such great eX.
hibits have been shown at the state
fair, and, judging from reports that
have come to the state fair hea dquar-
tiers of the interest being aroused ali
over Arkansas among the boys and
girls in their respective enterprises,
the corn club exhibit and the canning
display this year will far surpass any
thing that Arkansas has ever before
seen.