El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-19
To PUT MORE BRAINS into FARM
WORK IN THE EL PASO VALLEY
Chamber of Commerce Believes Farmers Will Profit
Many Fold From the Investment in an Expert to
Teach Them What to Do-El Paso Women Can
Help Valley by Demanding Valley Products

- Ne Of the most significant events
ia local history Of the past few
- years was the passage Of reso-
LUTON 10y the budget fund committee
of the chamber Of commerce last Mon
cay. appropria-u $1,000 a year as part
OF the salary Of a. farm demonstration
agent. TO assist the farmers in the
valley in the development of agriCul-
ture. This action followed that of the
commissioners court Of FL PasO county.
taken on last Saturday. when that body
made like appropriation for the same
purpose. A further appropriation OF
$500 a year is available for this pur-
pose from the Smith-Lever fund, max
ing a total Of $500 a year, for which it
is believed a firstclass farming expert
can be secured
Chairman George R. LeBaron. Of the
committee on lands and irrigation Of
the chamber OF commerce. is jubilanJ
over the success Of this plan Mr. Lee
Baron has already distinguished him
self by his activities in behalf Of Sc
curing better markets for the farming
products grown In the valleys under
the Elephant Butte project and de-
clared this afternoon that the location
Of an expert farm Demonstration would
go a long way toward finding a salts
factory solution of this problem as well
as increasing efficiency in farm pro-
duction-
Farmers Must Use Brains.
Laughingly waving aside the sugges-
tion that he might be preparing to
b qualify as a farm expert himself, he
referred TO an article along this line
which appeared in a recent issue OF the
Saturday EeveninE Post, in which the
new assistant secretary Of agriculture
is quoted as saying:
II the American farmer would put
into practice the scientific methods OF
agriculture that already have been
n-aaI az Of
ment funds, and if prices held. he could
increase his yield Of corn and wheat
alone by more than Sl0,G00,000 worth
for every growing day Of the year
But" he added emphatically, BE sure
that you don't forget my two ifs'-if
the farmer would put these new meth
DDS into practice and If prices held
On these two ifs hang all the agriCul-
Cural law and the profits. The average
farmer cannot put our new methods
into practice without more help than
we have given him in the past, unless
we translate our scientific principles Of
agrOnomy into simple and concrete d.
rectiOns in farm practice.
To Try Expert Methods.
1T is just this translation Of the sci
entific principles of agrOnomy into sim
pie and concrete directions in farm
practice that we hope TO secure through
this expert farm demonstration" said
M. LeBarOu. land if we are successful
I'm securing it. the man viii be worth
10 times the salary We pay. him.
Mr.. LeBarOn was emphatic concern
ing the relative Importance Of not mere
Iy increasing the yield but charging
the net income from the farm Citing
the article in the Post once more, he
quoted
IF the science Of agronomy is the
warp, surely good business manage
meut is the wool Of this fabric Of sue
cussful farming we are trying TO weave
By good business mana cement I mean
not only the efficient handling Of the
problems Of crop production but the
equally efficient handling Of the eco
uOmic problems connected with financ-
ing the enterprise and marketing the
crops"