Show ates ates to Aid in Agricultural Work I THIS WILL or GIVE THE MOVEMENT A ANEW Q o oI I- I NEW law s cS IM IMPETUS A 1 P HE department of agriculture announces announces announces an an- T THE that three thirty colleges have organized departments of agriculture agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture extension The movement Is is only four our years old The number of persons connected with the extension work In 31 states is 15 92 This does not include members of the college faculty and experiment station staffs who who contribute only occasional servo ice Apparatus necessary for interior in- in work work In agriculture has hns hasin ulU in the four years until now entire buildings are devoted to the storing of agricultural machinery barns are i filled with horses cattle sheep and swine hundreds of acres of land are utilized In demonstration and granaries are filled with samples of feed all used for illustration in construction work to the resident students stu stu- dents The department Is expressing the hope that the state legislatures will give the movement a new impetus by Increasing the amount of their approprIations appropriations for the work This years year's appropriation by states aggregated Indiana appropriated an average amount New York led with Iowa was second with and Wi Wisconsin Wisconsin third with The department points pointe out that to the should be added the amount used by the several several sev sev- eral states for extension work from the farmers farmers' institute fund of which no separate account was kept From the standpoint of the federal government agricultural tural extension Isa isa Is la laa a business proposition It undertakes to do for men engaged in agriculture what proprietors of mills and manufactories manufactories manu manu- factories are striving to accomplish In th their ir business the business the conservation of waste economy of effort and material material material mate mate- rial and an In Increase ere age in the output with reduced expense It strives to todo do ao with and for for- fora a man that which a manufacturer desires to have done for his machines Improve machines improve it that it ma may turn out more and better quality of products sa says s 's Prof John Hamilton of the office of experiment stations stations- |