Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-09-29
'OEVELO OPMENT OF.
/. us. RESOURCES
BY H|RSCH
CORPUS CHRISTI BANKER DECLARES
IT MORE IMPORTANT THAN GOING
AFTER FOREIGN BUSINESS.
TELLS OF WORK BEING DONE IN THE
UNITED STATES FOR DEVELOP
MENT FARM Communities.


KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. 29.-Devel-
opment Of the internal resources OF the
United States, rather than "A STRIVING after
| foreign commerce. was urged a. the great
est opportunity before this country, IN an
address here today by Joseph Hirsch OF
Corpus Christi, Texas, before the annual
tconvention of the American Bankers As
sociation Mr. HIirSch, himself a banker
j. a member of the associations agrlcul-
tural commission and his address served
n the annual report of that committee.
The work being done throughout the
| United States, particularly IN the South,
for the development of agricultural com
muniiies. was outlined bv Mr. Ilrsch lie
spoke of improved conditions-still infer
or, however. he said, To the countries OF
Europe that practice intensified farming
and told how country farm advisers. acri
cultural xyssociations, bays and eirl>
clubs, colleges and schools and various or
CARNATIONS were instiling ideas of bet
ter country life throughout the nation.
The agricultural betterIh.,,t work being
done in practically every state in the I'M
ION was outlined bv Mr.. Iirsch and he de
rlared that il was his hope that soon every
county in all the states would have en-
ployed farm demonstration agent through
cooperation with the federal department
Of agriculture. This can he done, he said.
by the Smith Lever act. under which there
now j. available Sl.5S0. 900 but which will
increase half million dollars each veaI
until 1922, when it vii have reached 81
osO,00O, contingent upon similar appro
prlailonS from the states.
"Seventy-iive demonstration agents
have been employed in Indiana, Illinois and
Minnesota. and they have immeasnrabl,
Increased the wealth Of their states. b,
development of the dairying and livestock
INDUSTRIES he said. "These states have
been foremost in the development of the
consolidated rural and agricultural high
school and good roads movements"
Michigan has more than fifty agricuI-
tural schools and Missouri '.has done some
remarkable county agent work" Iowa.
Nebraska. Kansas and Oklahoma report
increasing interest in the work Through
"'fi'N'' idimiii- METHODS. NdilS.t~ has he
come ore of the richest states in the I'M
ion"
Agricultural developments in the United
States designed 10 nculcate ideas of crop
hNer~iileatlon- road construction. county
farm demonstration work aud upbuidlng
rural communities, were discussed nj the
bankers convention today.
agricultural development means not
only more profits for the farmers, bankers
and business men,, said H. u. tarri,
chairman of the -Associatlon's agricultural
commission. hut means also arousnr and
inspiring militant citizenship" r
The a~Sociation T. expected to elect T..
T. Goebel, Kansas City, president, succecd-
in- Jane h. Lynch of san Francisco.
The sessions are expected 10 end after
adopting numerous resolutions, The choice
of the next meeting place. and hearing the
address Of Paul NJ Narbure Of the fed
cral reserve board