The Springdale news., 1917-03-02

Representative Cardwell, of this elace, is slowly carving himself a .iche in the Hall of Fame at Little Rock. Only last week he occupied prominent section of the Arkansas Gazette, all on account of his strong speech favoring farm demontrators.
 Representative Cardwell uses the plea that he is farmer, which allega- ton is not wholly denied by his friends and constituents in this county however, he should better have quail fled his position by calling himself town farmer" At any rate, his re- marks were we'll timed, and to the point.
 The following account is taken from the Arkansas Gazette:
 One of the strongest speeches in fa- vor of the $102,86 appropriation as the states share of the support of the Agricultural Extension Division for the next two years was that of Repre- sentative Wilson Cardwell of Spring dale. Washington county, in the house Wednesday, Mir. Cardwell himself is a farmer. Friends of the measure give much credit to Representative Cardwell's speech for the passage of the bill by vote of 76 to 13. The bill now is before the Senate. Governor Brough has promised that he will sign 1t if it comes before him.
 ''I am surprised that there should be any opposition to this bill,' said Representative Cardwell in his inn promptu address Wednesday. With the exception of the four representa- tives from Pulaski county, probably every one of you gentlemen owe your presence here to the votes of the farm CTS Frequently we have passed meas ures for the benefit of other classes al- most without discussion, and yet when we have a chance to do something for the farmer big fuss is made about 1t. It shouldn't have taken this house 30 minutes to pass this bill.
 It should be remembered that while this fund is administered through the College of Agriculture of the univer- sity of Arkansas at Fayetteville, not one cent goes to pay the salaries of the county agents, of the specialists who assist these county agents, and of the necessary supervising officials and to defray necessary expenses of running a big institution like this.
 Tt is a great work. The United States government thinks enough of 1t so that it is willing to give S122,860 to continue it, if We will give S102, 1850. Could we ask more than that?
 Farmers Now Welcome Advice
 ''To my mind, the greatest thing that can be said in favor of farm demonstration work is the fact that it has proven popular with the farmers, despite their natural conservatism to accept advice You all know of this feeling. The tendency of the farmer IS to say, Here, I've been farming for 30 years l learned how to farm by hard knocks l am not going to let any man who learned farming by read ing books to come on my farm and tell me how to run it.
 That is the natural tendency of the farmer the world over And yet this demonstration work has been so sue cessful that this natural inclination of the farmers has been overcome to large extent Most af our farmers now eagerly seek the adivee of Che farm demonstratir They have come to realize that these demonstration agents have had the advantage of the knowledge gained through many prae- tical experiments They have come to know that they may profit by the ad- vice of man who has had tune to study the many problems of aerJcal- ture, and that the farmer, absorbed in the problem if making living, hasa i time to study these problems as he should.
 If Arkanas IS anything, | is al agricultural state. Eighty per cent of our people are engaged in agriculture. All other industry is dependent upon farming And this condition will con tinue for the next decade, at feast
 Gentlemen of the house. ask you. can you preform any greater service to our state than to encourage and to help improve our one great industry farming?"
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