New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-09-25
BANKER and FARMER
PROSPERITY TWINS
Financiers Learn How They Have
Aided A6riCulturistS

Atlantic City, N. j., Sept. 25.-How
the bankers of the United States have
co-operated with the farmer to OBJ
tain a more profitable and increased
production of food and livestock was
related to the American Bankers
association today by Joseph Hirsch Of
Corpus Christi. Texas, chairman of
the agricultural commission Of the as
sociation.
This campaign for increased food.
feed and livestock production, which
we have been advocating for 5 years,
has become a vital factor in the sue.
cessful conduct of the great enter
prise of war upon which this nation
is launched" said Chairman Hirsch,
Agricultural preparedness is just as
necessary as military preparation We
| are endeavoring to apply efficiency
methods to the business of farming
| the greatest business of this country.
| The purpose of the banker is to in
| crease our agricultural prosperity and
| at the same time make the banking
| business more profitable and infinite
| ly safer by lending direction and fl
| nancial assistance to the sound farm
ing projects advocated by those ef-
! ficiency experts, the field forces of the
United States department of Agri-
culture and the state colleges OF
agriculture.
During the past twelve months we
have redoubled our efforts toward the
employment of additional county
agents and no better proof Of the
wisdom of this policy can be offered
than the fact that our government.
in it's campaign for increased food
production, will endeavor to place a
county agent in every agricultural
county in the United States.
Encourage Livestock Industry.
| 1--WE have continued to advocate the
| development of the livestock indus
try and hundreds of calf, dairy, baby
beef, sheep, swine and poultry clubs
have been organized by bankers all
over the country. Thousands of pure
bred cattle, swine and sheep have
been purchased by bankers and have
been sold to farmers and to children,
members Of the livestock clubs, at
actual cost. These movements are
| playing an important part in the cam
paign of the government to increase
our meat supply. Illinois bankers
| have organized more than eighty calf
clubs and as a result of their interest
more than 5000 head of animals have
been brought into that state.
"Wisconsin bankers, in conjunction
with the state agricultural college
, ! have distributed a variety of seed
which it is believed will increase the
states wheat yield from an average
of twenty bushels an acre to thirty.
eight and one-half bushels an acre
Michigan bankers hope to save the
farmers of the state some $4,000,
900 which is lost annually because O.
poor seed.
1.-THE entire South has engaged upor
safe-farming campaigns conducted
largely under bankers auspices, which
have saved millions of dollars TO,
! southern farmers and brought abou
| | an agricultural revolution in the lant
| of cotton.
GAIL over the country a better I'm
Outstanding has been created between
bankers and farmers. The Wisconsin
and Washington Bankers association
l ! conducted banker-farmer excursion
to their state colleges of agriculture
! | The California Bankers association
visited the state university farm in