Ogden Evening Standard | 1913-04-18 | Page 10 | Praises Bureau of Agriculture

uu PRAISES BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE Washington, April IS That the United States has the best organized department of agriculture in the world was the opinion expressed to Secretary Secre-tary Houston today by M. Vrlmoria. a French agricultural expert who has spent the past year touring the world Studying agricultural svstems Secretary Houston expressed his Pleasure at the compliment and said the United States hoped to do even greater things in the way of helping Its farmers. Aid to the Farmers. Dr Thomas N. Carver of Harvard university, appointed last week bv s-eretan Houston to take charge of tne proposed "rural organization scr-0 scr-0 new branch of the department depart-ment of agriculture designed to aid the farmer along economic, social and CO-operatlce buying and selling lines, Jill be in Washington within the next day or two to discuss with the department de-partment officials plans preliminary to starting the new work Dr Carver will not gn up his duties at Harvard, Har-vard, however, until June 1. The efforts of the service will be directed largely to teaching the far mer how better to market his products. prod-ucts. Most of tho department's ac.-1 ac.-1 1 v It les in the past have been addressed ad-dressed to questions of production ruther than to the buying and selling and the human side of farm life