The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-07-15
Prominent Cotton and Gin Mon
Declares County Agent Worth
More Than Amy Other
County Official.
SHOWS HOW GRADY
HAS BEEN BENEFITED
Agent Secures Government Seed
Wheat Loan for 22,500 Acres
Helps Farmers Get Fine
Cotton Seed.

That there is no excuse for the
county commissioners not allowing
an appropriation for the maintenance
Of an agricultural agent for Grady
county at the meeting called faf next
Saturday that tic county aericul.
tural agent is as much an official
Of the county as the county clerk.
he county Judge or any other
county official aud that Grady
county had as we'll try TO operate
without any man who draws money
from the county as to fail to al.
low the appropriation for the main.
tenanco Of ounty agent was
the stateme C. Hutson,
prominent q and gin man Of
Chlckasha
Mr. Hutson pointed out in detail
few Of the accomplishments Of the
county agents office during the past
year including the 22,JOO acres Of
wheat that have just been harvest.
ed in Grady county, that in all prob.
ability would never have been plaut.
ed, had not the government loaned
the farmers money to seod the
ground This money, Mr. Hutson
oints out was procured through
Inc county agent and was not loaned
to farmers in any county that was
without county agent.
Is official Of County.
Il think that the county agent isl
the most worked county official in
amy county" said Mr.. Hutson.
Since the legislature has passed a
law authorizing the county commits
sioncrs to appropriate a sum sufr
cient to maintain the agricultural
agent in any county ! fail to see
Why the county agent is not as
much part Of the official family
Of a county as the court clerk, the
county clerk the commissioners. the
sheriff or any other county off
cial
"The benefits that county de
rives from the services of an agri
cultural agent are too numerous to
mention. | can't conceive Of an ag
ricultural county trying to get along
without an expert agricultural man
on the job Just as well try to OPP |
crate a court without a Judge
Wheat Acreage Through Agent.
"As | understand it, Grady county |
has just harvested 10000 acres OF
wheat OF that acreage, there are
1900 acres that never would have
been PLANTED, had not the govern
ment loaned the farmers of Grady
approximately 100000, and the gov
ernment would not have loaned this |
money to the farmers here. had
Grady county been without a county
agent, for seed wheat money was
not loaned to farmers in counties
where there were no agents.
Again, take the cotton situation
Through the cooperation of the
county agent, the farmers of Grady |
county were loaned $4,000 private
money to buy Acsla cotton seed and
this would never have been done had |
there not been an expert agricultural
man on the job TO supervise the
planting and raising of that cotton.
The Acala cotton is now coming |
nicely It is growing of two or
three weets ahead of the ordinary
cotton and is going to prove one Of |
the best ventures that was ever
made in Grady county
Would &c Behind,
II The commissioners fail to make |
an appropriation for the county ag- |
enl. IL viii place Grady county in a |
class with counties of ten years ago. |
We viii virtuaSy tdmit that we are
not an agricultural county that we
arc not progressive
In addition to the conditions that
] have outlined, the county agent
benefits the county beyond all esti-
mate in his work day by day He
A.ves advice to farmers. he tells
them how to plant this crop or