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Show WOULD EDUCATE MAN BEHIND THE PLOW To carry knowledge of scientific agricultural methods directly to th man between the plow handles, and thereby increase the agricultural products prod-ucts of this country by at le'ast 20 per cent, Senator Hoke Smith in a speech in the senate the other day urged the passage of the Smith-Lever bill to establish agricultural extension exten-sion departments in colleges of agriculture. agri-culture. "The annual value of our agricultural agricul-tural products is, in round figures, $9,000,000,000," Senator Smith said. "If the increase as a result of this work were only 20 per cent we would have an increased value of $1,800,000,-000, $1,800,000,-000, or a sufficient sum to meet the proposed appropriation for 600 years." Senator Smith pointed to the passage pas-sage of the Morrill bill for the establishment estab-lishment of land grant agricultural colleges in each of the states of the Union, and of the Hatch bill for the establishment of an experiment sta- x f r i tion in each state. Upon them the government is now spending about $4,000,-000 $4,000,-000 annually. Much of this money and of the $15,000,000 appropriated each year for the exclusively agricultural work of the department of agriculture, he stated, is spent in investigating and experimenting to Bhow how' the best and greatest crops can be raised. i "According to the plans of the bill," he continued, "the representatives of the colleges in the various states will enlist farmers who, under the direction direc-tion of the representatives of the Agricultural college, will test the value on their own land of the information brought by the representative of the college." ' |