Show COUNTY AGENTS COLUMN morgan P mckay roosevelt favors extension service experiment stations president elece elect franklin D roosevelt Is very pronounced in his in the value of 0 the work of 0 tho the extension service and experiment stat slat letter to the editor ot of the progressions as attested by tho the following ivo ive farmer 1 I believe thoroughly in agricultural education I 1 regard it a as ono one ot of the most moat important and essential brancho branche a ot of the whole educational effort that Is being car carried on in the united states I 1 am a firm believer also in the value ot of the operative cooperative co research and experimental work and the extension service which state institutions in III operation cooperation co with the federal government are rendering 1 I think it would be nothing short of a disaster it any ot of this work were seriously curtailed particularly in these times when farmers armora are having such a desperate struggle to main maintain tala themselves I 1 think it supremely important that they should havn hava the benefit of 0 tho the expert advice that colleges experiment stations and extension services are able to give them and it la is equally important that we should continue to hold bold out to te their children opportunities for or an aa education that will make them something more than field drudges what I 1 have said with respect to the agricultural colleges and their allied services applies with equal force to the lesser schools of 0 agriculture and to the agricultural education now being carried on with such excellent promise in consolidated high schools in the rural communities 1 I am glad that I 1 have the opportunity of 0 expressing myself on this subject on which I 1 have very strong convictions signed president elect franklin D roosevelt 0 0 0 0 |