The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-06-15
Meredith-tOr President
COMMITTEE, Des Moines, Iowa

iAs publisher, Secretary Mere
dith has made special study of ad-
vertising, and the whole subject Of
publicity in general. One of the
things he proposes to do as the
head of the Agricultural Department
is to "sell'' the services of the De-
partment to a greater number of
Americas men and women than are
now using it. AS an initial step in
this scheme he recently delivered an
address before the Merchants AS
ISOLATION of New York in which he
gave an outline of the activities of
the Department of Agriculture. At
this time it employs $1,000 persons,
according to Mr. Meredith, 1900
throughout the United States, and
1000 in Washington. Of the $685.
100000 annually appropriated for
the Department, not much more than
a third is expended for purely agrI-
cultural purposes, he said, the bal
ance being distributed among var
ious affiliated bureaus, such as the
Weather Bureau, the Forest SeTV-
ice. and others. Mr.. Meredith holds
that the amount devoted to agrlcuI-
trife when the vastness of the agrl-
cultural interests in the United States
and the results that have been at
tanned from the activities of the
Agricultural Department are con-
sidered To quote:
You may take all the manufac-
turing institutions-iron, steel, ana
all the rest, some twenty-five other
industries-add them all together,
and you will have just the net capt.
tai invested in this business OF agrl-
culture. The AGRICULTURAL and live
stock product last year was twenty
five billions of dollars, equal IN one
present time.
year to our national debt at the
1.-The ham you ate this morning
for breakfast was posed upon, by
an inspector for the Bureau of AMI
NAL Industry The method OF
handling eggs in storage and trans
portation has been studied and I'M
proved; the Bureau has seen to it
that there are no injurious ingredl-
ents in your catsup. When you put
maple syrup on your cakes-f the
product was Tabled maple syrup, it
ia maple syrup.
The cotton in your automobile
tires is more durable than the past
because the Department has de-
veloped long staple cotton indus
tries. Your clothes-the Depart
ment touches you there, not only
through it's work with cotton and
wool, but through it's extremely
valuable results in developing dyes
and dye materials which will halp
make up independent of foreign sup
plies. The specialists have develop
ed methods of treating leather to
prolong it's life, and other specialists
are teaching farmers how to prepare
hides and skins with the least dam
age and waste Your medicine
the Department sees to it that the
labels on it do not say it is a remedy
for such and such thing unless it
actually is a remedy. Even in your
recreation hours the Department is
with you. Its protective hand
reaches out to the wild birds and AMI
mails and provides game for your
hunting. 1t keeps the National For
ests spick and span for your Yaca-
ton.
THE Weather Service is part
of the Agricultural Department,
You know that it puts out the storm
signals; you know it forecasts the
weather, but do you know that it in-
fuences the icing of the cars for your
fruit? Do you know it influences
the shipment of your vegetables
Good roads are devised and test