Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-04-18 | Page 10 | To Help Farmers Along New Lines

TO HELP FARMERS ALONG NEW LINES WASHINGTON. April 1H Thomas N. Carver of Harvard university, appointed last week by Secretary Houston to take charge of the proposed "rural organlaa-tlon organlaa-tlon servloe," a new bram-h of the department de-partment of agriculture designed to sld the farmer along economic, sorlal and ro-opernttve Iniylng and selling- lines, will be In Washington within the next day or I wo t d1sms wl t h 1 1 1 dpa rt men t officials plans preliminary to starting the nw work. Ir. Carver will not tv- up his dutlee at Harvard, 1 hi w ever, until Ju ne 1 . Th efforts of the service will b directed di-rected largely to teaching; the farmer how hotter to market his products. Most of ths departtnent'a activities In the past have been addressed to questions of production pro-duction rathsr than to the reiving and I selling and the human side of farm life.