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into effect $480,000 are appropriated annually to the sev- 

 eral states from the national treasury. 



The second year the law is in force an additional sum of 

 $ 600,000 is likewise appropriated, "and for each year 

 thereafter for seven years a sum exceeding by $500,000 the 

 sum appropriated for each preceding year, and for each 

 year thereafter there is permanently appropriated for each 

 3 r ear the sum of $4,100,000 in addition to the sum of 

 $480,000 hereinbefore provided." These sums are avail- 



TREE PLANTING DEMONSTRATION. 

 A county agent in the center. 



able to the several states on the basis of their rural popu- 

 lation compared to the total rural population of the entire 

 country, provided that the state legislature appropriates 

 from its local treasury an amount equal to the sum pro- 

 vided for by the federal law. 



35. The Need of Scientific Farming. At the present time 

 there is need of more scientific farming in America. 

 When nearly everybody lived on the land, for each farm 

 to produce sufficient food for itself until the next harvest 

 was about all that was required. With the growth of 



