THE Of FICIAL RECORÜ, OOTOBER 22, 1Ö24 



rnlilishiil cvery Wednosday at 

 WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Tue OrpiciAi. Uecoud is piiblislicd as a 

 iiioans oC i'iiiiiniiinioation to woikors and co- 

 operators of tlio Pepartnient of AKriculture 

 offlclal staloments aiul other Information nec- 

 essary to llii' porforniancc of thelr diitles and 

 18 Issued free tu tliom by law. OtluTS can ob- 

 taln it froni Ihe Snpprintrndont of IJoeuments, 

 GoviTnment Prinlhi); Offlcp. Washington, D. C, 

 by subacription at the rate "f 50 Cents a year 

 dome.stlc, and $1.10 foreis;«. Stamps lan not 

 be accipted in payment. 



GERMAN ECONOMIST VISITOR HERE 



Ur. Julius Uirsfli, of ISerliii, sonio 

 time State secretary of the Gernian min- 

 i.str.v of eoonomics, and at preseut pro- 

 fes,sor at the nerliii Ilaudelshochschule, 

 is visiting the ünito<l States to study 

 our agricultural Situation. Doctor 

 Hirsch is a recoguizod nutliority oü 

 European affairs. At a receut address 

 hefore represeutatives of tlie dei)arlment 

 lie outlinetl tlie two great criscs througli 

 whieh Germany has passed siiice the 

 war. Tlie first was tlie revolution and 

 the seeoiid the period of Inflation. He 

 gave an exoellent review of the signifl- 

 canee of events in Germany and ex- 

 pressed great hupe that the placing of 

 tlie Gemiaii loan will result in promot- 

 ing peace in Europe as well as the resto- 

 ration of Germany's industries. He 

 gave flgures on Gennauy's foreign trade 

 and stated tluit lie lielieved there would 

 be eonsiderable market in his couutry for 

 American products. He furtlier stated 

 tliat Oerniaiiy would not seriou.sly com- 

 liete witli American industries sinee lier 

 loglcal market is in sontheastern Kurope. 

 Hc als« minimized tlic reports of in- 

 creasiug exports froni Itnssia. pointing 

 out tliat tlio dividiiig up iif tlie estates 

 into sniall liolding.s had destro.ved tlio 

 produetion of surplus forf.xport. Doctor 

 Hirsch will make a trip to the Facitic 

 coast and dellver addresses at several 

 ixiinls. 



NEW NATIONAL FOREST IN GEORGIA 



The Iti'iiiiiiig National l-'orest. near 

 Colunibus, Ga., lias just heen fornially 

 created hy prnclamation of the President, 

 annuunces llie Korest Service. This 

 forest is located withiii the area eiu- 

 liraced hy the Fort Iteiining Military 

 Reservat Ion, the forest boundaries in- 

 cludiug about 8(1 |)er ceiit of the militiiry 

 reservation, or 78,")Üt» acres. 



The autbority for creatiiig lliis new 

 forest was graiiled by the <'larke-Mc- 

 Nary Avl. pu.ssed by Congress in .lune. 



1924. This law provldes that national 

 fiirests may be created on existlng miU- 

 tary and iiaval reservations with the 

 consent of the Cabiuet officer wlio.se de- 

 partinent controls such reservation and 

 subject to rcgiilatioiis mutually agreed 

 uiwn. The War 1 •e|iartinent uiider the 

 agreemeiit will bave iiiiliaiiipert'd ose of 

 the Keiining Forest for inilitaiy purposes. 

 An excellent stand of southern -pine 

 timber is on the Renning area and the 

 Forest Service expects to harvest forest 

 products both for mililary use and for 

 .sale. One-fourth of tlie receii)ts froni the 

 lieiining National Forest will be lunied 

 back 10 the counties in whieh the forest 

 is sitiiiitcd for scliool and road funds. 

 An additioiial 10 per cent of the receipts 

 will be spent by the Forest Sei»iee on 

 niads and trails within the area. 



NO MUTE, INGLORIOUS MILTONS 



Henry L. Menckcn, the critic, says 

 there are no mute, inelorious Millons in 

 the World and there never have been. 

 Mute and inelorious Miltons exist only 

 in Ihe Imagination of poets. To be a 

 Milton a man must function as a Mil- 

 ton — he must burn so fiercely with a 

 desire to say somethine that he suys it, 

 in spite of blindness, poverty, social dis- 

 approval, and the lejecüon slips of edi- 

 tors. There are no 45-year-old inglori- 

 ouB business executives working as 

 bookkeepers at $56 a week. If they had 

 the qualifications of business executives 

 they would push and elbow their way 

 out of their present Jobs. If they lack 

 the initiative and enersy to eet to the 

 top, then they certatniy lack the qualities 

 whieh would enable them to stay at the 

 top. It is always more difiicult to main- 

 tain than to attain leadership. 



If a man can not seil himself out of a 

 $50 a week Job into a $75 a week Job, 

 what Chance would he have of success- 

 fnlly conductine the sale» of a Company 

 doinc a busineia of $1MOO,400 a year? 



'COUNTY AGENTS AND PUBLICITY" 



It is geiierally conceded that count.v- 

 agent work is as liberal a vocation as is 

 offeretl by the conmiercial world to-day. 

 HIs duties demand a wide Variation of 

 knowledge of everything froni "Acoriis 

 to /cbriis." and even then lie lenriis 

 soiuethiiig new every day. 



The Intest " wrinkle " in agents' rou- 

 tine is the .loh of agricultural editors, 

 and it lias jiroven very successful in aid- 

 ing the work of the particular region 

 where it is practiced. 



Slx inonths ago the agents of the Par- 

 i.sh Farm Demon.stratlon Offlee, of Cal- 

 casleu Parisb, I,a., calleil upon the ed- 

 itor in cliief of the I.iike Cbarles Ameri- 

 can Press, a local newspapor covering 

 that territory, niul suggested the weekly 



piiblicatioii of an agricultural page for 

 the beuetit of the farm subscribers. The 

 Idea appealed to the editor and several 

 trial editions were arranged. 



Tlie Items composing this page are 

 submitted from the notes tiiken during 

 the week in the field by the county 

 and assistant county agents, H. L. Briiik- 

 ley and F.. H. Patterson, respectlvely. 

 The adilitlonal work only requires an 

 liour or possibly an liour and a half 

 each week, and a reporter is assigned 

 by the editor to arrange tlie agents' copy 

 for the press. The copy is easily made 

 up on Saturdays, the agents' regulär 

 Office day, betweeu calls from visiting 

 fii rniere. 



As Calcasieu Parish contains from SOO 

 to 900 Square iniles, the agricultural 

 page places much valuable Information 

 before those farmers who otherwise 

 could only be vlsited about twice each 

 .vear by tlie agents, and, hesldes, the ed-. 

 itor has found that liis subscriptions 

 have been inereased in the rural districts 

 by .soliciting the mailing list handed bim 

 by tlie agents' office. 



Shiikri Hussien Kassadzade, of Bour- 

 dour, Turkey, spent the weeks of Septem- 

 ber 15 and 22 in the department studying 

 its research, regulatory, and extension 

 activities before returning to Asia Minor. 

 IVIr. Kassadzade has completed an agri- 

 cultural course in the New York State 

 College of Agriculture and a study of 

 agricultural practiees in Utah, where 

 climatic and soll conditions resenible 

 those of his home. He is now returning 

 to Turkey, where his father, who is a 

 f armer, has set aside a part of his farm 

 for his son's use. Here Mr. Kassadzade 

 hopes to put Into practice improved 

 uietliods he has learned in his studies 

 wliicli are adapted to use in Turkey. and 

 in this way enable others of his Com- 

 munity to have the beuetit of sonie of bis 

 training and experience. 



The first luncheon meeting of the Buf- 

 falo U. S. D. A, Club for the season was 

 held October 7 at Central Y. M. C. A., with 

 19 members present. The resignation as 

 vice President of .T. T. Cavanaugli, grain 

 Supervisor in Charge, because of his 

 transfer from lUiffalo to Norfolk, was 

 accepted with rcgret. Mr. Cavanaugli 

 then doscribed an interesting Visit whieh 

 he and Mr. Humplirey had made through 

 the Jacob Pold Packing Co. As a result 

 of his talk the cluh voted that tlie next 

 meeting be held at the Jacob Dold Pack- 

 ing Co.. November 18, and that the 

 luncheon. in the ilining room of the 50-50 

 Club of the Company, be preceded by an 

 inspection of the slanghtering.establlsh- 

 inent under the guidance of Dr. B. P. 

 Wende, Bureau of Animal Industry. 



