The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-10-30

sIuction, cnange to production, with
the rehabilitation of business and
resultant increase in imports, the I'm
derWood Tariff Bill will abundantly
establish the wisdom of Democratic
craftsmanship.
Let me call your attention especially
TO what the government has done in
direct aid of the farmer:
Government Aid in Graduating Hog
Cholera
A very careful government estimate
made no later than 1913 revealed the
fact that six million hogs, valued at
800, 100000, died of hog cholera in the
United States that year. AS this is a
preventable disease, it means that
over 7OO,OOO,0OO pounds of dressed
meat and lard, or enough to furnish
every family in the land with about
30 pounds of meat has been needless
ly lost. This has been allowed to go
on unnOticed for fifty years. 1t re-
manned for this Democratic Congress
to take positive and efficient steps to
SASNho thC q "1ul w doIO SduSOu Ny IhAo
scourge. So, in February of this year
bill was passed settling aside $780,
600 for nationwide application of
serum to eradicate disease that not
only costs the farmers many mil
lions annually, but also gives the peO-
pie greatly extended meat supply.
This certainly brings government aid
directly to the farmer and lends a
helping hand where most needed.
The smith-Lever Agricultural Extern.
sion Act.
The Smith-Lever Agricultural Ex-
tension Act is the most far-reaching
for the farmer. 1t takes the State
Agricultural College, the State Expert
ment Station and the Federal Depart
ment of Agriculture direct to the
farmer, the farmers wife and into the
farm home. 1t is the first Congress
sional act that considers the farmers
wives ard daughters by providing
funds for teaching home economics.
This administration was the first one
ID grasp the tremendous truth that if
all of the knowledge applicable and
helpful to farming that has been work
ed out separately by the experimental
stations, and by individual farmers
upon the farm, and by the scientists in
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture could be gathered together
and correlated and sent out to the
farmer-nOt in written bulletins
which they would not read-but by
personal appeal and demonstration,
that agriculture would be readjusted,
that country life would have an at
traction, dignity and potential infiu-
ence never enjoyed before. This act
makes liberal appropriation for farm
extension work. There is Immediate
ly available $4,000 for each State
Agricultural College and by gradually
increasing sums the new law appro-
PIRATES $4,580,000 annually from the
Federal treasury, conditioned upon
the individual states providing an al
most equal sum. This will make avail
able after the year 1922 nearly S10,-
100000. In the first nine years of the
laws application, the Federal govern
ment will have given the forty-eight
states more than $23, 100000, and the
states themselves will have given
more than $lS,000,OO0. Thus in the
nine year period now beginning, a
grand total OF nearly $42,000,O00 will
aoric aYTQnSinn wnrL-
The cooperative feature of the bill
the states and Federal government
working in close harmony, is a very
valuable step forward. Efficiency is
guaranteed for the wise expenditure
Of this enormous sum by providing
that the work shall be carried on in
such a manner as shall be mutually
agreed upon by the Secretary of Agri
culture and the State Colleges.
If explanation, or excuse, is needed
for the outlay of such enormous sums
I would say that it is high time that
such steps are being taken, if We are
! to obviate enc Of the greatest dangers
| that threaten our national existence
I refer to the deserted farm home, {
| constantly increasing tendency to
wards system of farming by alb
! senteeism, the growth of tenantcy ant
/ the alarming drift Of rural population
! towards the towns and cities. 1t j:
/ safe to assume that not more than 81
per cent of our population live upoI
| the farms This tendency will cease
only when farm life becomes as at
! tractive as urban life. There is az
imperative need On the part Of The
! State and Federal government to re
shape rural methods and ideals. w,
must have better farming, better liv
/ ing, better and more education, which
means better and more prosperous Cit
izenship in rural communities. Il re
! CURED Democratic administrator
for the Department of Agriculture Il
make this direct effort TO get in touc.
with the home life of the farmer an,
to assist and improve his domestic con
ditions, thereby making the life of tn,
farmer, his wife and family, easier an,
nleasaDter his work more Drofita hi,