The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-01-27
FARM EXTENSION WORK
MEETS IN GRENADA
Quite Gathering of Men Pushing Farm Extension Work
Smoker and Banquet Gov Brough of Arkansas Dropped
in and Made Most Elegant and Staesmanike Address

the farmers in the different localities
where he Is connected with banking
interests but stated that he regretted
to say that the results had been dis
appointing.
DR.. j r.. Countiss was called on
and made a few minutes address
which was an appeal for thought
along lines Of nobler living. He
urged that the farm men in their as
sociation with and work with the
farmers and business men through
out the state, that they give attention
to the children. Mr.. Countiss dis
cussed few of the perils of the
present day for young men and Young
women and asked that everything pos
sible be done to quicken the minds
of the parents as to really giving at
tentiOn to and looking after their
children.
/, Mr.. R. S. Wilson followed Mr..
Countiss. Mr.. Wilson gave a brief
outline of the program for the farm
demonstration agents for the year
and stressed specially the value of
farm agent to a county. He spoke
of what county agents had saved
farmers in buying fertilizer and other
things and also stressed cooperative
marketing. At this juncture Mr.. J.
T. Thomas asked Mr.. Wilson what
were demonstrators duties; was he
to be sort of buyer and seller for
the farmers or was he to be a man
who sought to show farmers how to
farm along approved lines? After
much parrying by Mr.. Wilson. Mr.
Savely interpOSed to answer the ques-
ton, still the audience did not seem
70 be satisfied. 1t took Lawrence a
Olson of this county to satisfactorily
answer Mr.. Thomas. Mr.. Olson said
mistakes had been made by agents
ievoting too much time to towns in
acting as sort of buyer and seller,
but that that was not their province.
Their duties, he said, were with the
farmers, the little farmer as we'll as
vie larger ones, and that they should
noc hngeI ia their Offices ar0l:.41.. the
towns. This met the approval of the
business men and the farmers of the
county present.
About $50, an adjournment was
taken to the Grenada Hotel where a
banquet was served. Mr.. w. B. Hoffa
acted as toast master and it is need
less to say that whatever Mr.. Hoffa
does is we'll done. Various ones
were called upon for addresses which
were all directed along agricultural
lines.
Ex-Governor c. H. Brough of Ar
kansas chanced to come in on the
Memphis accommodation train at
$50 o'clock and he was invited and
urged to come into the banquet hall
where he was presented and most
enthusiastically greeted. Gov. Brough
was born at Clinton, Miss, and was
educated in the state. He is one of
the noted men of the Nation. 1t has
been stated of him that were the
Classics destroyed, that he could , O.
duce them from memory. He is bril-
liant, cogent, convincing and very en-
tertaining speaker.
The Ex-Governor expressed great
delight at being back in Mississippi
and at having the opportunity to
meet so many of the business men of
Grenada County and so many of the
farm demonstration force of the
state. He said that while Mississippi
had many things to be proud of and
while he did not mean to butt in on
the politics Of the state, yet he
thought it a very serious thing for
the development of the state and for
the futures of her people that the
State Revenue Agent should, through
of so-called antitrust
law, be allowed to take action that
would run capital out and keep other
capital from coming in. He said that
the economic, religious and social life
of a people must go hand-in-hand,
and that the state could not improve
her farms, could not enlarge her cat !
tide and hog herds, that she could not
improve her orchards and build her |
creameries without more money. He |,
said that the last census showed that |
the state had lost 1900 people during |
the last ten years, most unfortunate |
thing, he stated. He plead for the |
people to wake up to the possibilities |
of the present hour.
Gov. Brough, among many other |
gracious things said about Mississippi |
and her distinguished sons, paid a
fine tribute to Mr.. j. T. Thomas. He
quoted the words of Senator Roscoe
as to Gen. Grant, "Great
in the arduous greatness of things
lone."
The Governor was warmly con-
yrtulated and generously thanked for
MS great speech and excellent words
Of admonition. The gentlemen pres
ant were indeed fortunate in having
he privilege of hearing him.
Gov. Brough was enroute to Jack
son where he had been invited by the
legislature to address joint session
If both houses.