Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1915-10-15

For the number and effectiveness
OF the agencies working for the devel-
opment of agriculture and rural n1e'
minnesota is at the very front among
the states, and It's rural life should
soon be the best in the world.
Foremost among the various agen-
cies referred to is the Department OF
Agriculture Of the University OF Mime
sofa. The work Of this department Is
:two-told. With six experiment sta
lions in various parts Of the state, 1t
ds solving such problems rs farm man
agement, right rotations, tho reclaim
Ing Of waste areas, the elimination OF
weed and insect pests, the prevention
OF plant diseases. and the care and
management OF live stock. Through
the college of agriculture and three
schools of agriculture, it fs distributing
Information gathered by. painstaktnE
enheavor On the part OF the six expert
rneut stations and other agencies.
The Work Is Complex.
From the foregoing statement the
work OF the department Of agriculture
of the university looks like a rather
simple thing. On the contrary this
work is complex and far-reachtng. 1t
would not be very difficult to maintain
q college and schools Of agriculture
even for student body rs large as
that of such institutions In Minnesota,
which, last year, was more than 1900.
But the department is act satisfied
with reaching annually only 1900 out
of the tens of thousands in Minnesota
directly interested in agriculture. Con-
sequent1y, in the form Of short courses,
It offers special inducements to study
to those who cannot take time for the
regular courses at either the college
or the schools.
Press and Other Educational Agencies.
The educational push behind the
country life movement in Minnesota,
however, receives tremendous addi-
tional strength from four other i'm
portant agencies. "The press-news
and agriculturalEin the whole move
,ment is a force of the first rank"
says a man actively interested in the
work. without the support of the
press every other agency would lack
immensely in effectiveness" The
state fair, with an annual attendance
of hundreds of thousands, it is esti.
mated, gives an equivalent of 200 days
of university classroom work to 5000
students in such subjects as dairy and
animal husbandry, live stock market
ing, farm mechanics, and crop i'm
'provement. The Minnesota Public Ii
brary Commission, through its travel
ling libraries and other forms of service
places we'll selected reading within
reach Of every rural community, and is
Incorporated with i'm this by a super
visor Of. school libraries in the office
Of the state department Of public in
struction. The Minnesota State Art
Commission has placed within reach
of Minnesota's farmers, at a nominal
sum, sets of plans for farm-houses as
they ought to be, and thereby has set
going an educative influence which
eventually will add tremendously to
the satisfactions Of life on the farm.
Developing Rural Resources.
All of these educational opportuni-
les are being supplemented by efforts
on the part Of tho state to develop it's
physical resources and the great in
dustries based upon them. (And even
these efforts, by the way, have an edu-
cational value.) This is seen in
whole group Of boards. commissions,
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The dairy and food department, su-
pervising 900 creameries with an an
nual output Of $50, o0o, 900. and seek.
ing to promote the growth Of the
dairy industry b. = large, and aetive
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