Show FARMERS COOL 1 TO Sr ITH PLEA New York State Agriculture Backs Hoover Plan as Practical HALL N N. Farmers In New NewYork NewYork York state are givIng active approval to the tho constructive farm program an an- pounced by Herbert Hoover declares Charles S. S Wilson Nilson of this place who as commissioner of agriculture came cameto cameto to grips with Governor Smith In the latter's efforts to extend Tammany's domination over the New York farms farms' and markets department New York farmers have had their own problems to selve during the last decade says Mr Wilson recall that In eIght annual messages message to the state legislature Governor Smiths Smith's chief recommendation atlon with respect to agrIculture has been to scrap the machinery of the present department of of agrIculture and markets mar mar- which the farmers In the tho state with few exceptions endorse and ap ap- prove That done it was well understood understood under under- stood In political circles that the governor gov planned to seize the tho department and reorganize It as an added of gubernatorial patronage It may not be generally known that persons reside on the farms of New York State The employ em cm ploy capital in farmlands and quip quip- ment approximating Two thirds of the area of the state Is farm land While the state the other states is only 2 th in total area and In area of farm lands it stands eIghth in the total of agricultural tural production Republican legislatures for tor eight years have kept these varIed as well as financially and economically important import tant farm interests out of the maw ot of the political patronage into which Governor Smith has sought to throw them Governor Smith during his incumbency bency of the executive chair has had some other peculiar ar ideas respecting agriculture In his first year as gov governor there was submitted to him a report In which the suggestion was made that milk mUk be declared a public utility and Its price fixIng power be made a function of the state At the outset Governor Smith made known his approval of this recommendation |