THE LEVER ACT 



development side of agriculture shall balance its investigational and 

 research activities." 



Mr. Rubey still further defined the progress of farm 

 demonstration work and also took a dip into the future in 

 the following language: 



"The agents of the Government, acting in hearty cooperation 

 with the state and local authorities, went upon the farms and by 

 actual demonstration showed what could be accomplished by certain 

 improved methods of cultivation, by rotation, by fertilization and by 

 diversifying the crops. Thus began the work of farm demonstra- 

 tion, and so successful has it proved that methods of agriculture have 

 been revolutionized, and to-day the name of Dr. Knapp is a house- 

 hold word throughout the Southland." 



"This measure is sure to become a law. Like other great bills, 

 it will bear the name of its author, the distinguished Chairman of the 

 Committee on Agriculture, Hon. A. F. Lever, of South Carolina. It 

 will be known far and wide as the Lever Bill. Future generations 

 as they study the Acts of Congress will discover standing out in bold 

 relief above all other great statutes, the Morrill Act, establishing 

 state agricultural colleges, the Hatch Act, establishing experiment 

 stations and the Lever Act, establishing the cooperative agricultural 

 extension work, which is but another name for Farm Demonstration 

 Work." 



A magazine writer recently said that Justin Morrill will 

 be remembered for the tariff act bearing his name, bat real 

 historians will remind generations to come of the service 

 rendered to agriculture and education by Morrill, Hatch and 

 Lever. 



One of the most remarkable things in connection with the 

 discussion of the extension bill by Congress, is the insight and 

 scope revealed by the members of the law making body. When 

 it is realized how many thousands of bills they have to con- 

 sider, it is refreshing to read their interpretation of such 

 legislation. They realized that the Demonstration Work con- 

 tained ideas and principles which would grow and expand. 



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