The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-02-27

| 3. He also tests seed corn and
oats, timothy, clover, and, in short,
| all. seeds. A test made at the Ben
nington County Vermont Improve
ment association Office revealed that
one brand of seeds which sold at the
highest price, tested but 22 per cent,
others testing all the way up to 100
per cent The simple testing and Sc
lecting of seed will increase the
quantity and quality of our agricul-
tural output to an amazing degree.
4. The County Agent is also help
ing the farmers to test their cows and
| to Judge their stock so that the cows
that do not pay may be eliminated
and those that are valuable may be
increased. Results wherever the COW
| testing has been carried on for years
read almost like fairy tales.
5. The County Agent will select
what is known as demonstrators, two
in the larger towns and one in the
smaller towns. The farmers who are
thus chosen will carry out the sugges
lions of the County Agent regarding
the growing of an acre of either one
or more crops. During the season
| the County Agent will call on each of
these demonstrators at least once a
month. The farmers in the neighbour
hood will be invited to listen to the
instructions and observe the results
of these experiments.
6. The County Agent will be in the
closest touch with the State Expert
ment Station at Burlington and also
with the United States Department of
Agriculture and bring the knowledge
and results of the specialists and
their experiments to the farmers and
make it available for their use.
Z. The County Agent will go
about among the farmers visiting
them on their own farms to discuss
their problems with them.
8. The extension work that is
made possible by the appropriation
that the General Assembly made for
this line of work will enable the Agri
cultural College at Burlington to
hold Institutes in the various farming
districts and the County Agent will
be the man to help carry on the fol-
low-up work of these institutes.
8. The County Agent will study
successful along certain lines in our
own county and bring the informa-
tion and the methodS of these to 9TH
er farmers as he goes up and down
the county in his work.
10. Another function of the County
Agent is to help organize and carry
| on boys corn clubs throughout the
county under the direction of the u
S. Department of Agriculture The
purpose of these clubs is, first, to fur
nish vocational guidance to boys at
the time they are attempting to de-
eide what to do in the future, by di-
| recting their attention to the bust
ness of farming as a profitable and
noble profession. Second, to give the
boys OF Bennington County some de-
finite work to do which will result in
pleasure, profit and education Third,
to encourage boys to learn the best
methods of corn-growing and how to
make the best use of their soil and
weather conditions Fourth to prove
that Bennington County soil is capa-
BILE OF producing many more bushels
of corn than are now being raised
| and at a greater profit Fifth to help
boys become better citizens who will
| later become efficient factors in the
| up-building of the community and the
state.
He has also helped arrange cours-
es of study, Offering a portion of his
| time to the high school of Benning-
ton, which has a class in practical
agriculture.
How shall the money that the
| towns appropriate be handled The
| selectmen of the various towns have
a selectmen's organization for anoth-
er purpose and they can also organ
ize for this purpose, delegating their
side of the work to one or more of
their number TO confer with a repre-
sentative of the U. S. Government,
Prof. j. l.. Hills, Dean of the Agri-
cultural College at Burlington, and
the secretary of the Bennington
County Vermont Improvement assoc.
iation, who are the other contracting
! parties and financial contributors tow
ard this work.
Every business man is interested in
| this agricultural extension work be-
cause it will increase business in Ben
nington County.
Every farmer is interested in it be-
cause 1t will help him solve his prob
lens and make him more prosperous.
Every laboring man is interested in
agricultural extension work because
1t will increase the quantity and i'm
prove the quality of what he will have
to eat and in time should reduce the
cost of food or at least prevent its
soaring still higher
Every patriot is interested in this
because efficient agricultural extern
sion work energetically pursued will
do more than anything else to pro-
mote the prosperity and the highest
welfare of our nation.