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colleges in every State of the Union placed their facilities at the 

 disposal of the Department, supported its efforts and plans with the 

 utmost zeal, and omitted no opportunity, on their own initiative, to 

 adopt and prosecute helpful measures and to urge the best agricultural 

 practice suited to their localities. They not only responded promptly 

 to every request made on them to cooperate in the execution of plans 

 but also liberally made available to the Department the services of 

 many of their most efficient officers. Equally generous was the sup- 

 port of the great agricultural journals of the Union. They gladly 

 sent their representatives to attend conferences called by the Federal 

 Department and through their columns rendered vast service in the 

 dissemination of information. 



Very much assistance also was received from the National Agri- 

 cultural Advisory Committee, created jointly by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture and the Food Administrator for the purpose of secur- 

 ing the views of farmers and farm organizations and of seeing that 

 nothing was omitted to safeguard all legitimate interests. This body, 

 as a whole and also through its subcommittees, studied the larger 

 and more critical agricultural problems confronting the Govern- 

 ment, gave many valuable criticisms and highly useful suggestions, 

 and assisted in the several communities in making known the plans 

 and purposes of the Department. The committee included, in addi- 

 tion to representative farmers, the heads of a number of the leading 

 farm organizations. It was composed of former Gov. Henry C. 

 Stuart, of Virginia, a farmer and cattleman and member of the price- 

 fixing committee of the War Industries Board, giving special atten- 

 tion to the consideration of price activities bearing on f ^rm products ; 

 Oliver Wilson, of Illinois, farmer and master of the National Grange ; 

 C. S. Barrett, of Georgia, president of the Farmers' Educational and 

 Cooperative Union ; D. O. Mahoney, of "Wisconsin, farmer specializ- 

 ing in cigar leaf tobacco and president of the American Society of 

 Equity; Milo D. Campbell, of Michigan, president of the National 

 Milk Producers' Federation; Eugene D. Funk, of Illinois, ex-presi- 

 dent of the National Grain Association and president of the National 

 Corn Association; N. H. Gentry, of Missouri, interested in swine 

 production and improvement and vice president of the American 

 Berkshire Association; Frank J. Hagenbarth, of Idaho, cattle 

 and sheep grower and president of the National Wool Growers' 



