Show I I fARMERS FARS ARE AIDED Secretary Wilson Points Out What tie he Is Doing Washington Nov Wilson has Issued a statement point pointIng pointIng Ing out that the United States gov go spending In the neighbor neighborhood neighborhood hood of n a year rear on expert montal work increasing in Ute the yield and efficiency or of the farms of the country countr The statement was Inspired by the made b by William C CBrown Brown president o of the Now New York Central lines at a linner In New York this week that the nation could bet better ter afford to Invest the cost of one battleshIp In agricultural experiment work than to expend It in the increase of the navy A battleshIp ap nine million dollars Secretary declares that t the ha government is expending each year ex cx twice as much as two t battleships and the money Is he heing hebig big ing used in tI the manner mann l red rec h by President Brown The assistance nce given the farmers or of I the United States Slates the secretary de Is not Call confined fined to any com coal As an Instance of the aid the department renders Secretary Wilson r recited the case of a farmer who was raising only twenty bushels or of pota pola potatoes toes to the acre anti who lied fied appealed to the department for or assIstance and and advice Both were given him and Mr Wilson says lie he now Is raising 50 bushels to the acre on the same as a result or of using the seed and the in information information formation given uy by the gOY ern ernI |