The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-07-06

member of the Farm Policy associa-
tons commission to develop a program
for economic rehabilitation of the is
land.
When the agricultural adjustment
administration was instituted, Wilson
was instrumental in developing its pol
icies. He was said to have been re-
sponsible for many of the plans out
lined by Mr. Roosevelt in his Topeka,
Kan, speech during the 1882 campaign.
To many Wilson is known as the
father Of the domestic allotment plan"
For several months he was chief Of
the farm administration, wheat pro-
duction section. He laid the ground
work for payment of 100000 to
wheat growers participating in the cur
rent reduction program.
Senators who opposed Tugwell's pro-
motion on grounds that he was not a
dirt farmer can have no quarrel with
Wilson on this score. Farm-born in
Iowa, he lived and worked on farms
most of his life. He vas one of the
first county agents in the northwestern
grain states and has an impressive
record as an experimental farmer.
From his researches on farming meth
DDS, he developed several plans and de-
vices designed to increase agricultural
efficiency.
The probable appointee also was a
professor at Montana State college. He
relinquished this post to assist in lay
ing foundations for the new deal ag-
ricultural program.
1t vas not known whether Wilson
would accept the offer when it is made.
BOZEMAN-M. L. Wilson, mentioned
recently as Rexford Tugwells possible
successor as under secretary of agri-
! culture, has long been active in farm
work, particularly in Montana.
Born on an Iowa corn belt farm, Will
son came to Montana Is a homesteader
and wheat rancher at Fallon in 1910.
His first farm venture on his own was
as a tenant farmer in Nebraska from
1907 to 1910.
From 1910 to 1912, Wilson served as
an assistant in agronomy at the Mon
tana state experiment station at Boze-
man. In 1913, he became Montana's
first county agricultural agent in Daw-
son county.
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county agent leader of the Mon
tana extension service, a post he helo
until 1922. For the next two years he
was an agricultural economist with the
extension service.
In 1924, he was placed in charge O.
a farm management and production
cost study for the United States depart.
ment of agriculture. This took two
years.
Steadily mounting to higher position
in the agricultural world, Wilson be-
came head of the department of agri
cultural economics at Montana Statt
college in 1926. In 1929, he took 81,
months leave of absence to study ag
ricultural conditions in Russia and Eu'
rope.
Some of his outstanding accomplish
mentS include a demonstration Of tn
feasibility of growing corn in eastern
Montana and publication of results O
the famous northern Montana "tri
angle" survey, which today is recognizes
as one of the greatest source books OF
dry land farming.
In recent years he directed a serie
of notable experiments and demonstra
tons as manager of FairWay Farms cor
poration, an endowed organization TO
determining efficient production meth
DDS under varying Montana conditions
Most significant of his recent activ
tiles has been his work with the AA1
in behalf Of the domestic wheat allot
ment plan, and his duties as directo
of the governments subsistence home
stead program.