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OUGHT DEVELOP
HOME RESOURCES
BEFORE EXPANDING
Texas Banker Says Farm
Agents Should Be Aided
by Country's Banks.

Kansas City, No, Sept. 29.-Devel-
.pment &c internal resources of
,.ates, rather than
r. foreign commerce, was
lie greatest opportunity be-
country now, in an address
here today by Joseph
Corpus Christi, Texas, be-
annual convention of the
n Bankers association. Mr..
himself banker, is MEM
the associations agricultural
ion and his address served as
i report of that committee.
* being done throughout
S 'ates, particularly In
for the development OF ag-
communities. was outl'ne'
h. He spoke of improved
till inferior however he
countries of Europe that
ensifed fsrming-and told
.ty farm advisers. agricnl-
socia ions. boys and girls
,clleges and schools and vari-
organizations we're instilling
$ of better country life through
,l the nation.
The AGRICULTURAL betterment work
being done in practically every state
in the union was outlined by Mr..
Hirsch and he declared that il was
his hone that soon every county IN
all the states would have employed
a farm demonstration agent thru
co-opera ion with the federal de-
partment of agriculture. This can
be done, he said, by the Smith-Lever
act under which there now is avail
able S1.5SO,OO0 but which will in
crease half million dollars each
wear until 1922 when it will have
reached S4,5SO.O00, contingent upon
similar appropriations from the states
In speaking of the various states,
he said seventy-five demonstration
agents have been employed in lndl-
ana. Illinois and Minnesota.
'"They have UNNECESSARILY increas-
cd the wealth of heir states, by de-
yelopment of the dairying and live
stock industries" he said. These
states have been foremost in the
development Of the consolidated rural
and AGRICULTURAL high schools ana
good roads movements.
Michigan now has more than f1tv
GCr1CuIlurdI SCuCCI0 dAN
"hae done some remarkable county
agent work" The safes on iowa
Nebraska. Kansas and Oklahoma re
port increasing interest in the Work'
Thru improved farming methods'
Kansas has become one OF the flch-
est states in the union.'
!. Mr.. Hirscb touched upon the WORK
being done by practically all the
states but it was of the South. now
ever. of which Mr.. Hirsch spoke a
the greatest length. Texas was de-
clared to have employed alfeady
more than one hundred agents ana
a bankers committee composed OF
one member from each county Is los
tering the improvement spirit. Last
wear. the states, cotton warehouA,' ca,
pacity was increased by over 7000oG
bales. and a statewide Campaign
now is being conducted for increased
livestock production.
southern bankers have been par
ticularly active, because the need OF
AGRICULTURAL development has como
more closely home to the bankers OF
the South" Mr. Hirsch declared. me
great rural problem of this country
as it has been of all countrle:, IS 10
make a nation of land owners MI.
Hirsch said. 1.-THE future OF this ma
ton depends upon it's agricultural
prosperity. The establishment OF
agricultural schools and the consoll-
dation of rural schools, which will
give our farm children educational
facilities equal to these enjoyed by
their brothers and sisters OF the
towns, constitute the foundations OF
a permanent agricultural prosperity.
HERRING is the medicine that