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Show PROPOSED Bill 10 .IDJARIERS WASHINGTON, Dec 15 A plan to enable agricultural colleges throughout through-out tho country to do extension, work by bringing to tho farmers ot thoir reBpoctive communities tho best nieth-oda nieth-oda of intensive agriculture is contemplated contem-plated in a bill that will he intrpduced in congress after the holidays. Tho leading spirit In this movement move-ment is Howard Gross of Chicago, prosident of the National Soil Fertility learuo. Tho object of thin latest agrlou- rtural propaganda is to bring the farm- ' era Into poisonal touch with soil experts ex-perts with a view to largely increasing increas-ing tho output of tho farm. Tho bill contemplated will ask an annual federal appropriation at flrst of $500,000, or about half a cent por capita, this appropriation gradually to be Increabcd for flvo years until a maximum of $5,000,000 has been reached Estimates show that tho expense ex-pense of maintaining a soil expert In every agricultural county in the United Uni-ted States would not oxceod 10 cents per capita per year. oo |