AORKlLTrRAl^ APPROPRIATIOX BILL, IW4. 08 



he sii|)|)cis(m1 t<» Ik' Icssriiiii^ its suppott of tliih I'lit^Tpri.^*', which tht* 

 States have so well supported. 



The (list'oiini^rin^ conditioMs in tlillerent parts ()f the West wliicli 

 have Iwen hadly atle<'te<l hy the drought for several ye«»*s; the con- 

 ditions ill Montana of iinroHerted coiintA' taxes; the conditions in 

 Ne\a«la, with <:ieat counties witli (jnly a lew farms, and the alteinpl 

 to make farininjr there successful, and the <attle conditions, which 

 have been no serious, make it a|>pear that the |)rol)leiii is one perhaps 

 quite as much of moral a> financial support to this entcr|)risc. 



The \N'cstern States have met their |)rol»lem as West they can. 1 

 do not know whether one always appreciates how ditlicult it is to 

 carry this assistance to these people who are settling on the land ami 

 who need help in all phases of irripited farniinjr. They do n<»t 

 know how to apply the water to the land. They come from the 

 Middle West aiul Eastern States, and they need help at all sta;;es 

 of the enterprise. I do not know whether it is fully appreciated 

 here how ditlicult it is to make this work successful and how much 

 service they need and what an expensive thin;; it becomes. Take the 

 fact of the increased cost of transportation. If it is true in the rela- 

 tively small counties of the highly develoj)ed States, it is certainly 

 far more largely true in the bi^ counties of the West. In my own 

 State of California one county is as larpe as the States of Ma.s>achu- 

 setts and Connecticut put together, and to attempt to have one county 

 a^ent cover that territory is manifestly imjxjssible. We have had 

 to put three men in there, and even then we are only scratching the 

 surface. 



EXTKNSI(»N WORK IN KANSAS. 



Mr. Jaudixe. Mr. Chairman, I am interested in this item because 

 the farmers in Kansas — and I have ^one over the situati(m with the 

 Representatives of Nebraska — are in a serious need of li^ht. They 

 are in trouble. The farmers of Kansas are looking to the a<rri(Ul- 

 tural colleges for helj) as they ne\er ha\e looked to them before. 

 Many of the farm orpmizations that have endeavored to function 

 in the last four years have had difficulties, and they are coming 

 back to the colleges for ^ood, sound. ad\i<e. ^^'e did not stampede 

 them; we tried to state the difiiculties aiul to present the funda- 

 mentals, and they are coming to believe that the suggestions they 

 are ^ettinu from us are the ones that they neeil and should i)ut 

 into use in tiie development of their a^i'iculture. 



llefciriiio; to the supplemental fund 1 had the understanding you 

 have ex|)ressed, that it was merely to tide over the jjeriod until 

 we could ^et bark to reasonable prices a^'ain. But howe\er that 

 may be. the costs of oj)eration are very e.xpenesive, and we have not 

 been able to develop the provisi(»ns of this act as it was intended 

 thev should be developed uniler the original att. 



\\'e have 108 counties in Kansas. We are now servini; <)') of them, 

 and there is a demand from tlu' other counties for help. We have 

 only been able to reach the (K'uiand of a few of our farmers. We 

 ou^dit to be able to reach all of our farmers. If it is ^ood for sonic 

 of our farmers, for those wc have been reachin^^ the ones who were 

 .seeking li^bt, we oii^ht to push this out to the others, now that they 



