8 TwENTY-FlEST BlENNIAL RePOBT 



money available for better roads, better scbools, better 

 dmrches and better homes. These are the things that 

 make country life worth the living, and the more rural 

 conditions are improved throughout the State, the fewer 

 will be the people who leave the country for the city. 



It must be remembered that the efforts of this De- 

 partment are directed not only toward benefiting directly 

 the seventy-five per cent, of Kentucky's population that 

 is classed as rural, but also directly toward aiding an 

 additional fifteen per cent, that toil in the factories, mines 

 and workshops; and indirectly those whose livelihoods 

 are obtained in a business or professional way from 

 these creators of wealth. 



It is our purpose to direct your attention to the fact 

 that nothing like all of the people of the State are 

 blessed with a common school education, and as the De- 

 partment of Education can only directly assist the child, 

 the children who are not in school, and those persons 

 who are beyond the school age naturally look to the De- 

 partment of Agriculture and Labor for assistance in 

 learning how best to do things to increase their income, 

 and to better their way of living in general. The Federal 

 Congress has recognized the fact that the education of 

 the schools, colleges and universities is insufficient in 

 that so few have the means or opportunity to take ad- 

 vantage of the free instruction that is so liberally pro- 

 vided by the State and Federal authorities. It has, there- 

 fore, made enormous appropriations to carry informa- 

 tion into the homes, where the father and mother are 

 given the opportunity to increase their earning capacity, 

 and to obtain more of the comforts of life through their 

 own efforts. 



Kentucky has never appreciated the fact that a great 

 portion of her wealth is created upon the farm, and un- 

 less the State's per capita wealth increases in proportion 

 to the State's financial necessities, an increased tax rate 

 upon all is inevitable and unavoidable. This Depart- 

 ment, with the small amount of funds at its command, 

 has demonstrated beyond a doubt that thousands of dol- 

 lars of additional wealth can be created upon the farms 

 by the expenditure on the part of the State of a few 



