Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-12-05
FARM EXPERTS
TOT VISIT TEXAS
A STATEWIDE CAMPAIGN FOR DI.
VERSIFlEOi FARMING WILL
BE INAUGURATED
make A Three WEEKS TOUR
Prof. Holden, Accompanied by Fifty or
More Agricultural! Experts, VIII
Explain Diversified Stock Farm
ing, Agriculture Problems, Etc.

by a number OF organizations are car
( ried out, Texas early in the new year
will witness a statewide agricultural
campaign for diversified farming that
will make an epoch in the history of
| the State.
Through the efforts of the Temple
| Chamber of Commerce and similar
/ commercial bodies, 1t is planned to
bring to Texas in January Prof. Perry
G. Holden and corps of fifty or more
/ agricultural experts, who, in connec-
/ ton with representatives of the Texas
/ Farmers Congress, the state depart
/ ment Of agriculture, the extension de-
| partment of A and NJ and the State
! University, the Texas Farmers Union,
the Texas Industrial Congress, the az
ricultural departments of the Texas
railroads, chambers of commerce, COM
mercial clubs and other agricultural
and live stock associations, will make
a three weeks tour, covering as many
of the counties in the State as pos
sible, in the interest of diversified live
stock farming. WAS it grown in
| Texas" is to be the slogan of this
great farm revival"
Prof. Holden and his associates are
now engaged in a campaign of this
sort in Arkansas. They recently con-
cluded a similar campaign, lasting for
thirty-three days, in Oklahoma.
Concerning this work Prof. Holden
said: 1T is the policy of furnishing
physician for those that are sick,
rather than for those who are whole,
upon which We have proceeded in
regard to AGRICULTURAL extension work
We have found more calls for help
than we can possibly answer and we
now have on file over 5000 requests
for campaigns.
There are two ways in which we
have found we can best dispense farm
health: one through the regular hos
pital-the experimental farm - and
the other through special relief trains
that are rushed into the afflicted re-
gion with scores of skilled experts
on board who have seen long and
arduous service in many States and
who have remedies up their sleeves
that have been tried and found true.
"The Oklahoma problem was about
as knotty as any ever tackled by ex-
tension experts. 1t may be stated in
it's various phases something as fol-
lows:
I'D Roughly, the eastern half Of
the State OF Oklahoma is under fed
eral quarantine at the present time
for the Texas fever cattle tick.
"(2) This same section is stagger-
ing under the ruinous one-crop sys-
TEN also.
"(3) The combined effect of these
two foes of prosperity has been, first,
to make the farmer poor and after
him the merchant, the banker and
everybody else.
Now to destroy insect enemies to
crops, there must be diversified farm.
ing and before there can be diversi-
fled farming of the right sort, the
cattle tick must be destroyed. To
destroy the cattle tick, there must be
dipping watts, arsenical solutions and
twice-a-week baths. This is about the
way the prescription read when we
entered the field Sept 1. The prob
lem was a big one, and the territory
concerned so large that it was decided
to take fourteen counties of the in
tested region which lie CONTINUOUSLY to
the comparatively sound northwest
corner of Oklahoma
1T was such truths as these which
we endeavored to SOW broadcast dur
ing our Oklahoma campaign. Fifteen
extension department speakers and
twelve from the government and other
sources delivered the truth about Ok
lahoma to some 1880 people.
"The editor of the Oklahoma Far
mer-Stockman, in commenting on this
phase of the campaign, had the fol-
lowing to say:
Here are twenty speakers gather
ed from almost as many States, divid-
ed into groups of two or three and
sent by automobile into the far cor
ners Of every county. They hold
meetings on farms and in country
school houses and at crossroads,
preaching everywhere as they go the
gospel of-what? High falutin farm
ing" Chemistry, bacteriology, soil
physics and what not?
THAT was the thing 1 feared when
heard that these farm experts were
coming into Oklahoma to tell us how
to farm. Instead, l found most of
them full of practical, working knowI-
edge, and well informed, as we'll, con-
corning the actual conditions of needs
of every Oklahoma district which they
intended to visit
THUS did the apostles of better
farming tour the highways and by
ways of the fourteen counties of Ok
lahoma, distributing everywhere peril |
nent information simply expressed.
The meetings were held at the rate
of forty a dawn