10 Ai'KiL,. 1919.] 



Standard Test Cows. 



241 



J. D. READ, Springhurst. (Jersey.) 



Completed since last report, 8. Certificated, 



Dried off with mammitis 



In the field of agriculture we have agencies and instrumentalities, for- 

 tunately, such as no other Government in the world can show. The 

 Department of Agriculture is undoubtedly the greatest practical and 

 scientific agricultural organization in the world. Its total annual 

 budget of $46,000,000 has been increased during the last four years more 

 than 72 per cent. It has a staff of 18,000, including a large number of 

 highly trained experts, and alongside of it stand the unique land-grant 

 colleges, which are without example elsewhere, and the 69 State and 

 Federal experiment stations. These colleges and experiment stations 

 have a total endowment of plant and equipment of $172,000,000 and an 

 income of more than $35,000,000, with 10,271 teachers, a re.sident 

 student body of 125,000, and a vast additional number receiving instruc- 

 tion at their homes. County agents, joint officers of the Department of 

 Agriculture and of the colleges, are everywhere co-operating with the 

 farmers and assisting them. The number of extension workers under 

 the Smith-Lever Act and under the recent emergency legislation has 

 grown to 5,500 men and women working regularly in the various com- 

 munities, and taking to the farmer the latest scientific and practical 

 information. Alongside these great public agencies stan,d the very 

 effective voluntary organizations among the farmers themselves, which 

 are more and more learning the best methods of co-operation and the 

 best methods of putting to practical use the assistance derived from 

 governmental sources. The banking legislation of the last two or three 

 years has given the farmers access to the great lendable capital of the 

 country, and it has become the duty both of the men in charge of the 

 Federal reseiwe banking system and of the farm-loan banking system to 

 see to it that the farmers obtain the credit, both short and long, to which 

 they are entitled not only, but which it is imperatively necessary should 

 be extended to them, if the present tasks of the country are to be ade- 

 quately performed. Both by direct purchase of nitrates and by the 

 establishment of plants to produce nitrates, the Government is doing 

 its utmost to assist in the problem of fertilization. The Department of 

 Agriculture and other agencies are actively assisting the farmers to 

 locate, safeguard, and secure at cost an adequate supply of sound seed. — 

 From President Wilson s Message to the Farmers' Conference at Urhana, 

 III. 31st January. 1918. 



