| Show mexico v dexl co plans to revive rev i ve farmin farm ung 77 ploys american experts to restore prosperity of agriculture urbana ili mexico cradle of spare W arn lina has set bet out to ref restore tore tin nn industry astry which in the more troubled times of 20 yours years ago proved its undoing and it has summoned un an illinois I 1 authority to help do the jot jol 11 W mumford denn dean of the he collego college of agriculture university of illinois to and director of the state agricultural arai experiment station and exten ilon alon service has been appointed along with two other american agricultural authorities to servo serve on a commission 1 velch which will study tile live stock educational cat ional and other phases of the republics farming industry and make inake recommendations for their development members of the commission are now mow in mexico carrying out their assignment bade back in 1011 money accumulated abed by the madero family of u a from stock raising supplied fed the sa s1 sinews n aws or of dwar war for tho the overthrow of tie diaz government that benevolent dicta aitor who ruled between ISTO 1870 anti and 1910 la Is credited with having done more fur for the progress of mexico one of the worlds richest treasur tie asuro lands than had been achieved by the republic lit in lill all the centuries of its previous history united states plan appeals Appe alc now stock raising in tile rich republic Is not us its prosperous as am it once auca was nyo mexican Mex lefin officials realize however that tile tho industry can bp bf made just as potent a force for up good government as it was for tearing it down 20 years rigo ngo tho the help of the illinois expert rind the two other members men ibers of the mexico hopes to bolster its livo stock raising business tind and build up tip its agricultural i pul tural education system sa stern after the pattern of agricultural colleges in thu tho united states state 1 thus la Is tho the republic sometimes spoken pollen of as a wondrous roua storehouse of natures wealth taking another step to emerge from the fierce internal struggle ruggle at which has retarded its progress for years is cattlemen in the lie past have found in the broad pampas of mexico A a par halse of grazing land from which each year they reaped millions of hides constitute an important export to 0 o the united states ninety per cent of all the kinds of fruit grown tn in the world flourish in mexico arld every variety var lety of grain found in the united states abounds even more luxuriantly in the rich soils of that favored land of acres are densely forested with trees whose woods anre tho the most valuable tu in tho the world for or industrial purposes the most important mexican plant Is the agave or maguey fibers of tile tha uey aro are used to make paper and ap ope and its hugo huge leaves as thatches for houses mexico produces normally about bushels of corn tin nn dually or about one third as much as illinois the or mexican bean Is grown in every one of the 28 states rind two territories sisal hemp which has made yucatan one of the richest states tn in mexico Is used largely in the manufacture of binder twine for american harvesters in naming dean mumford as one 0 of three american counselors on its agricultural gul tural problems the mexican gov elliena ernnie ellI ent nt ima has selected otic one of tile foremost live stock of the united states lie vas its one of the lie if not tile the first authorities in tho country tn recognize tile lie importance of marketing studies lit in experiment station work tile tiie first bulletin ever published oti on the of a live liv i e I 1 stock product is lite lie production Prodoc tion and marketing of f wool issued in hv fly the michigan experiment station cred Is s give lit blin for doing the pioneering work tit in standardizing izing market classes and grades of live stock developed feeding tests lie ile wits one of the file to it recognize alie lie inadequacy of the lie results front from the usual live alvo stock buck feeding trials in ili tin final nutrition etwas it ans lie wlm who inaugurated Inaugurate I tile letIce now coniti ii with nil all experiment stations or of using carload lots lota instead of just a few nil aw tit in these feeding the husbandry depar linew ivetich lie developed ut at tile college of agriculture university of illinois Is perhaps tile first real comprehensive one the country lind had lie served on oil the national farmers dinners live stock marketing n ar committee committe e of fifteen front from which evolved the producers live stock marketing agencies agen cles now as tile most successful voluntary operative cooperative co ave marketing enterprise in tile the country enu during tile lie summer of 1020 lie he served sen ed us its it member of the american commission to study german agrI agrical cul ture ile he also lias has investigated live stock conditions in Argent lim anti on oil another occasion did similar work tn lit lerance great BrIt brinnin nin Hel glum and michigan Alle higan state college from tic lie wits graduated nud which lie later inter served as a staff me tier distin gulshen him several years yeara ago hy by awarding him tile honorary lion degree of doctor of agriculture serving with him on the mexican commission will be director bablon barcin of the new mexico exico agricultural experiment station and dr john W V gilmore GU inore an agronomist of the college of university of california |
