The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-06
EXPANSION IS URGED) FOR EXPERIMENT WORK
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and what is regarded as much more important, actually see how the work is carried on. In thu way the other
 nine out of tan persons receiving
 bulletins are reached. It Is esti- mated that only one out of ten per- sons receive full benefits from bulle- tins. The branch station has its own
 stock for animal husbandry work. has land for farm research and in fact Is a smaller edition, adapted to sectional conditions, of the state sta ton at Knoxville. where the agricul- tural college is situated.
 rInn Sectional Mcstins..
 Before the committee complies its
 final report. for which a great deal
 of valuable information and helpful
 suggestions were received during the
 trip, meetings will probably be held
 in various localities, so that persons
 interested may appear and offer their
 Ideas The first of these meetings
 is expected next week. The commit
 tee will meet in Montgomery about
 May Is to compile its report, on
 which the code of agricultural laws
 will be based.
 Next week members of the conn
 mittee will confer in Montgomery
 with the budget committee regarding
 appropriations. The chief duty If the committee, however, Is preparation Of
 an agricultural code for the state.
 The trip taken by the committee had
 for its main purpose the obtaining
 at first hand of information helpful
 in compilation of this code.
 Col. W. F. Garth of Huntsville.
 senator from Madison county. Is
 chairman of the joint committee. Other senate. members are Senator
 Duncan and c. R. Horton of Pickens county. House members are c. w.
 of J.ander6a1a M Dun.
 woody of Henry. Lee Galloway of Montgomery, R. J. Goode, Jr., of Will. | cox and S. A. Burns of Talladega
 county. Prof. l.. N. Duncan of the Auburn extension service and Dan r Gray of the experiment station at | party. ]. NJ. Moore, state commis-
 sioner of agriculture, was also ono
 of the party. acting as secretary to the recess committee.
 The committee visited the agri- ] cultural college of Mississippi at l Starkville. the branch experiment 1 station at Jackson, Tenn, the Kan 1 tan the state department of agricul- l ture at Des Moines, Ia., where the 1 committee was received by joint ! session of the Iowa legislature; the agricultural college of Iowa at Ames. 1 the Headquarters of the farm bu-
 reau at Chicago. model county farm l bureau at Kankakee. H.. and the
 University of Illinois at Champaign. Senator Duncan said the members l were received and entertained most cordially everywhere they went on | their trip.
 The great work possible through agricultural colleges is demonstrated thought where one of the greatest agricultural colleges in the world, at Ames, Is given much credit for Iowa 5 1 rank as the greatest agricultural state In the United States. Three
 per cent of the agricultural popula- l ton of the United States produces 10 per cent of tho agricultural wealth of the United States. The average farm cultivated for each family in the United States Is 36 acres. In Iowa 1t Is 1S0 acres.
 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. April 5.-(spe- cial) al)-Establishment of agricultural bama, where they can experiment with the different grades and char acters of soil that are found in the different sections of Alabama Will probably be recommended by the az. riculture committee of the Alabama to the state after tour through several states, according to Senator Winston F. Garth of Huntsville, chairman of the committee.
 i Senator Garth said the Kansas ag- ricultural experiment station is To- cated in one of the richest sections of Kansas and is valuable to all the 1 farmers of the state much more so than the Alabama station which Is : located at Auburn and experiments almost exclusively with the sandy soil Of that region. It's experiments are of no particular value to the farmers in the Tennessee valley and other portions of the state, he said. Senator Garth said the committee found very little in the laws of the states visited by the committee that could be copied and applied to Ala bama but some valuable ideas were received and these will be worked out as well as possible when meet ing is held by the committee in May when program for agricultural leg islation for submission at the July
 session of the Alabama legislature win be tentatively prepared.
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