Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-21
Committee Of Experts Reports Plan for
Recognizing Office of Farm Management

of AGRICULTURAL development, shifts of
agricultural production, relation OF
American to foreign agriculture, and
supervision Of the atlas of agricul-
ture; land utilization, including land
resources and utilization, land settle
ment, and land ownership and tenan-
cy; farm life studies, including CO.
operation and trend of cooperative
movements as affecting the farmers
life and activities on the farm, agri-
cultural relations to other industries,
agriculture for industrial workers,
conditions of farm life as affecting
national welfare; extension work, in
Guiding publications and illustrative
material, farm management demon
STATIONS, farm labor supply and other
farm economics demonstrations.
Importance of the Projects
The first two projects named, cost
of production and farm organization
are closely related, the committee
points out, to Investigations of the
individual farm and the problems of
the individual farmer in organizing
his business for definite results, and
should be under the leadership of
men who understand the problem and
methods of conducting, analysing and
interpreting farm management data.
The three following projects, farm
| finance, farm labor and farm hiStoyr
and geography, have more to do with
the enonomic aspects of group needs
agricultural industry as a whole in
it's relation to other industries and
to the demands of increasing popula-
ton. The project of land utilization
would have to do with the problems
arising out of the relation of the
farm life studies would deal with
the social aspect of farm life as af-
fected by the character of agricul-
ture as an industry and would in
| clude such subjects as schools, roads
and health as they affect farm life
and activities.
All these problems, the report con-
tinues, call for intelligent study by
men trained for the work, men who
| have keen sympathy with farm life
the welfare of the people who live
in the country. They must be Sc
lected, it is stated, from among men
of the caliber of those who are heads
of departments in the best gricul-
tural colleges, and, in order to at
tract them, the salaries offered must
be comparable with the salaries of
such men, including the extra pay
they receive for summer work. The
salary of the chief of the bureau
will need to be sufficiently large to
attract a man comparable with the
deans and directors of the best agri-
cultural colleges and experiment sta
lions.
SuOu4u cooperate WIFI SIAGeS
1t is recommended that investiga-
tions of the office of farm manage
ment requiring field work be carried
on in cooperation with the state
college and experiment stations.
This, it is believed, would prevent
duplication, correlate activities, pro-
mote the development of state de-
partments, unity the methods and
improve the general character of all
farm management work.
Before the federal department be-
gins work on q project in any state,
it should ascertain what has been
done in that state and should con-
slider the opportunity for co-opera-
ton, the report continues. So far
as practicable, personal corsulta-
ton should be held with the proper
state agencies with view to secur-
ing their approval and a memoran-
up showing the purpose, nature and
extent of the work contemplated.