Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Needed, a Profession of Agricultural Journalism 1
When George Church and Tad Moses first invited me here to your Texas meeting, they told me the program theme would be, We're all in the same business. They suggested that I might define the goal of that theme, in terms of agricultural journalism, I agreed to do so. Provided you would keep in mind that I was trained in engineering, not in editing.
Probably a minor qualification is in order. Back in the days before the First World War, before I went into the Army, we had in the Department of Agriculture what was called the States Relations Service. It linked Depart mental extension and research work with that of the land-grant institutions. We had an editorial division of which the late W. H Beal was chief. In addition to serving as a specialist in soils and engineering science, I also served for several years as assistant chief to Mr Beal. In those days it was believed that a fellow who had written an article or two could readily be made into an agricultural journalist.
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