Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-11-04
FARM CAMPAIGN 0N NOV. ll-l2 Sixteen Experts to Tour Jefferson in Order to h.
 duce Diversification.
COMMITTEES AT WORK
Men Named at Meeting Last Night to Handle Details of Arrangements Will Begin Task This
 Morning.

connected with farm diversification will tour Jefferson county Wednesday day and Thursday of next week. Mo- vemher II and l2, to demonstrate 10 the frmers of the county the neces- sity of diversifying their crops ia stead of depending solely upon cot ten, as has been the custom hereto fore.
 J. D. Wooten and Prof. w. R.. Wheelock, of the agl icultural experi- ment station, who are engaged in the organization work of the profit able farming campaign over the state, are assisting in organizing the work in Jefferson county, in CO., operation with the Young Mems Pro- gressive Business league and merch- ants and bankers of the city.
 Bankers Cooperating
 A meeting was held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms last night, at which time committees were appoint ed, and talks were made by Messrs Wooten and Wheelock. Great en- thusiasm developed at this meeting, and special committee composed of J. E. Boyce. chairman, Freq rox, 4. w. Nunn and s. c. Alexander, called the business mems committee, was appointed to organize a meeting of the business men and bankers, and to assist in getting representative merchants and bankers to accompany the lecturers in their tour over the county.
 Mir. Boyce, who has always been a leader in Jefferson county for farm diversification, said:
 T will drop whatever work I may have on hand to assist in every way possible in this work. consider it the greatest movement now on foot for the benefit of the people,"
 lie also expressed the belief that the bankers and business men are now deeply interested in this work.
 A meeting will be held for the business men this week, and another on the night of Wednesday, Nov. Il, at which meeting Prof. P. G. Holden. one of the most famous farm experts in the country, will be among those who will talk.
 Plan of Campaign
 The plan of campaign, briefly stat ed, is to have eight crews, each con- sisting of live stock expert, a farn.- ing expert and a specialist in school work, 10 visit every community in the county on November II and 12, when they will address, at small estimat :. 5000 people. This work will be follow ed up by tine United States and state depai tments of agriculture, and the Two farm demonstrators in this county will be ready to lend valuable assistance every month in the year. In addition to this, six soil experts will be in Jefferson county this winter, to make complete soil su.- vey of the county.
 The committees appointed last night are:
 Finance, Chairman, Judge c. M. Philpoi.
 Entertainment, J. H. Tucker, IT, chairman.
 Automobiles, Rev. Frank Thomp- son.
 Publicity and schedule, E. w. Free- man, chairman; R. H. Williams. Mayor Simon Bloom, E.. B. Bloom. Geo. H. Adams, A. w. Lowe. J. R. Hodnett and c. H. Thomas.
 The publicity committee will meet this morning at S:3O o'clock at the office of the Young Mems Progressive Business league to arrange for the schedule and the publicity work.
 In addition to these committees. the members of which will be appointed today, local committees will he an pointed in each community where . lecture will De delivered.
 During the discussions at the meet- ing last night, it was made plain that the campaign for diversification of crops can be made to succeed only by the heartiest of cooperation between the farmers, the mrchants and the banking interests. Each is as vitally interested as the other, according to the opinion of those at the meeting, and each must do his part in the ef- fort to bring to Jefferson county every possible atom of progress and pros- perity which all concede will follow closely upon the general adoption of the propaganda of diversification.