FIGURES SHOW THAT
EXTENSION SERVICE
PRODUCED RESULTS
Clarence Ousley Makes Able Plea for
Funds for That Department Be
fore Legislative Committee.
Id what has been termed one of
the most able appeals ever made be
fore a legislative committee in Texas,,
Clarence Ousley, head of the Exten
sion Service of the College, last week
addressed the Finance Committee of
the House of Representatives in favol
of appropriations for his department.
By way of recapitulation, Mr. Ousley
summed up the results that have been
achieved by the extension service
within the past few months.
“Governor Ferguson is reported in
the newspapers as having said a few
days ago to a subcommittee of this
committee that extension work is not
producing results,” said Mr. Ousley.
“I credit him with perfect sincerity
in that view, for from personal state
ments to me I know that he does not
believe that college professors can
teach practical farming. But while
I credit his sincerity I know he is in
error.
“I have shown this committee by
the records novr before you that the
extension service in one year has
reached directly 81,448 persons. In
addition it has helped to direct and
to sustain by some $6,000 various un
dertakings of the Federal Department
of Agriculture, the chief of which is
the farm demonstration work now
established in seventy-nine counties.
I have furnished you with voluntary
statements from 138 farmers in forty-
-five counties, testifying to personal
benefits in amounts varying from hun
dreds to thousands of dollars, and if
I had the time I could furnish the
testimony of thirty-odd thousand
more who have received similar bene
fits through farm demonstration
work, girls’ canning club work and
boys’ corn and pig club work. The
Federal appropriation for this service
for the next fiscal year is precisely
the same as for the current year;
hence there can be no hope of expan
sion of this work except through the
Legislature,, and the records before
you show that it is now earnestly de
sired in twenty-five counties and that
quite as many more counties would
accept it if we could offer it.
“I have shown you that we have
organized 157 diversification and mar
keting associations in sixty-four coun
ties with the aid of thoughtful and
patriotic business men, and I have
given you concrete examples of sav
ings in co-operative sales, which
prove the expenditures in this service
are not a tax upon the people, but an
investment in economy and the
prevention of waste. You must re
member that the work of co-operative
marketing is only barely begun, for
we cannot market crops until they
are grown, and we are now in the
period of growth. Returns upon this
work will not fully appear until sum
mer and fall.
“I have shown you that we are car
rying the teachings of the experiment
stations, the demonstration agents
and the laboratories to more than ten
thousand farmers through our short
courses, or movable schools, and that
there are twice as many demands for
this service as we can supply.
“I have shown you that the agricul
tural committee of the State Bankers’
Association and numerous practical
bankers have endorsed our plan of
basing farm credit upon the raising
of food and feed, and that this work
has been accepted by the Department
of Agriculture as the foundation of
successful farm financing and depend
able rural industry.
“I have shown you that we have
made a successful beginning in the
aid of farm women by organization
for study and assistance from the col
lege, and that for the first time the
State, through this department, has
concerned itself in the welfare of the
“better half” and the hitherto most
neglected half of the farm home. This
is in addition to the home demonstra
tion work or the girls’ canning club
work now established in thirty-one
counties, which is reaching the farm
home by teaching the farm girl.
“I have shown you that by demon
strations in terracing we have saved
thousands of acres of land from ero
sion and the waste of soil fertility,
estimated by an intelligent and dis
interested observer, whose letter is
before you, as more than $10,000 in
the single County of Denton this year,
with like testimony available from a
hundred other counties. By reason of
our neglect of soil conservation
Texas, which a few years ago ranked
first in cotton production per acre,
has now fallen behind such supposed
ly wornout States as North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
I have shown you that similar results
have been accomplished by demon
strations in drainage and other prob
lems of farm engineering, to say
nothing of demonstrations in silo
construction, dipping vats, barns,
poultry houses and other farm build
ings, and I have presented requests
from a score or more of counties for
advice in drainage and farm engineer
ing.
“I have shown you that we have
suppressed hog cholera in fifty-seven
counties, that we have furnished ex
pert advice in road building and road
maintenance in fifty-one counties,
that we have contributed by expert
advice to successful dairying in 140
communities, and that we have an
swered personal inquiries from 32,-
500 farmers, asking for advice on ev
ery phase of agriculture and animal
husbandry.
“I have shown you that the Fed
eral government offers us $35,000 for
the next fiscal year and $65,000 the
following fiscal year upon condition
that the State duplicate these appro
priations, and that if you fail to make
these appropriations you will reject
this bounty of the Federal govern
ment. I have presented to you infor
mation from several typical States to
show that appropriations for similar
service in States of like size and char
acter are as great or greater than the
appropriations we are asking, and
that no other State has failed to ac
cept this Federal appropriation under
the Smith-Lever act, but has dupli
cated it to the fullest extent.
“I present this evidence and this
situation for your consideration with
the Governor’s opinion that extension
work is not producing results.”
A LITTLE STORY
OF COLLEGE LIFE
A certain well-known Senior and a
young lady of the campus climbed to
the roof of the Main Building one
evening at about sunset the past
week, to enjoy the view of the beauti
ful stretch of country which can be
seen from that height. They sat for
a time drinking in the glories of the
vast panaroma of green which spread
out for miles around and before them.
They next fell to talking, and so in
terested in their conversation did
they become that they did not observe
that dusk was falling.
About this time a number of Senior
E. E.’s came around the corner of the
E. E. Building from supper. Observ
ing the couple sitting on the roof in
the half light, they decided they
would play a prank on them. Accord
ingly, they went into the E. E. Build
ing, rigged up the necessary appa
ratus, and from a window in the
southeast corner, suddenly turned the
glaring spotlight on the surprised
couple and began to call, “Look at
the moon! Look at the moon!”
But the two young people were not
to be bested, and continued to sit
there. By this time the cry of “Look
at the moon!” had attracted the at
tention of cadets in a nearby dormi
tory. They looked out, took in the
situation, and added another cry:
“Take intervals!” This was getting
too public for the couple on the Main
Building, and they beat a hasty re
treat.
CONCERTS BY BAND
ATTRACT VISITORS
Concerts by the excellent band of
the A. & M. College are proving popu
lar features. Each Sunday afternoon
the concerts attract a large attend
ance from Bryan. The programs
given under the direction of B. P.
Day, leader, always are well balanced.
The program for Sunday’s concert
follows:
1. Turkish March—“L’Odlasque”. .
Kritschner
2. Grand Medley—“Superba”
Dalby
3. Overture—“Sky Pilot” ,.
A. M. Lawrence
4. Selection—“Faust” Gounod
5. Intermezzo—“Heart Strings”.. .
John V/. Casto
6. Selection — “Martha”
Fr. von Flotow
7. Waltz—“Cecile”. .Frank W. McKee
(By Request.)
8. March—“Flag Day”
..Carl Schramm
Finale—“Star Spangled Banner.”
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Always welcome to
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WADE COX, Mgr.
CHARLOTTESVILLE
WOOLEN MILLS
Last Sunday was the day set aside
by the President of the United States
for the memory and honoring of
mothers. The day was, as usual, ob
served at A. & M. The captain of
each company invited some young
lady to pin white flowers on the men
before going to chapel. After this
ceremony, which was carried out
with much fluttering of the heart on
the part of the cadet, the corps
marched to chapel. Services were
again held in the gymnasium. Be
fore the sermon, Dr. Bizzell made a
short talk in which he requested each
student to write home that day to his
mother.
The preacher on Mother’s Day was
Dr. H. F. Cope of Chicago. His ser
mon on “The Religion of the Honest
Man” was one of the best that has
been heard at A. & M. With such
men as Dr. Cope speaking every Sun
day, it will not be long before march
ing to chapel will be looked upon as
a voluntary custom.
FACULTY TURNS
DOWN PETITION
The faculty, after considering the
petition of the Senior class that they
be excused from examination their
last term in college in those subjects
in which they might make a passing
grade, has declined to grant the peti
tion. The reason they give is that
granting such a privilege would set a
precedent which underclassmen, now
or later, might point to in asking for
exemption, and that they, the faculty,
are not ready yet to take such a step
with reference to the whole corps.
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