Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-02-11 | Page 7 | Would Aid Farmers in Advancement

WOULD AID mm II ADViGElEHI iRcpresenlaiive Bennion Intro- duces Bill Providing Fund for Making Progress. ft A bill to briii? the latest methods In agriculture and home-maklnp direct to the farmer wa3 Introduced yc8tcrday In the Iiouho by Bennion of Uintah. Th bill appropriates $7500 for the purposes of th-act th-act In 1P13 and provides an addition to that sum of ?2&00 each year until the total to-tal annual appropriation reaches 525,000. the Aftrlcultural college Is tp name the (Jemonfctrators. who are to study comprehensively compre-hensively the existing farm ;md home condition)! within the districts nsblsned. and to ylslt. In so far as It Is .possible to fio so, from farm to farm and home to Home. In order to "present such facts and principles and practices of modern asrl-culturo asrl-culturo and home science as may HuMn needed In the development of the districts dis-tricts acsIfe'r.Hd. They may afslst In the introduction of new crops, new methods of cultivation, and now machinery: in ad-vancinc; ad-vancinc; local and countv fairs and Ren-erally Ren-erally to help the agricultural and home Interests. The board of trustees of the Asrlcul-tnral Asrlcul-tnral collcijc is authorized to enter Into co-operative contracts with the United States department of as:riculture, countv pr city officers, private and public organizations organ-izations or Individuals, whereby the expenses ex-penses connected with the demonstration won may be born Jointly bv the state and othor agencies. The bill says It Is the Intent of the act that, ultimately, at least one farm and one home demonstrator shall be placed in each county. Until this can be done not more than one demonstrator in each branch shall bo placed In any on countv, but sparsely settled counties are to be i;lven extraordinary consideration. VThe measuro Is In line with the views expressed by Prof. P G. IToldcn, the famous fa-mous Iowa soil expert, when he addressed ad-dressed the legislature on Januarv 30. Mr. Holden told of the success which "bad mot the appointment of county "leaders" in Iowa.