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Show Farm Research Fund is Needed Washington Increased appropriations appropria-tions for agricultural research and extension ex-tension work in whatever farm relief program is finally adopted was urged in a statement by Charles J. Brand, secretary of the National Fertilizer association as-sociation . He declared that the government's gov-ernment's annual budget provides only 10 cents per man, woman and child in the country for this phase of farm development, whereas "promotion "promo-tion of marine transportation" gcti 54 cents and "national defense" $4.65. At the present rate of teaching farmers the new, profit-making practices, he said it would take from twenty-five to fifty years "to get where we might well be in five to ten years with refuse re-fuse to well grounded research and carefully planned and effectively conducted con-ducted demonstrations and teaching." |