The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-28
STATE LEADER SAYS
AGENTS MAKE GOOD
T. A. Coleman Declares
County Agents Are Bring
ing Results.

"One has only to go into Decatur
county, where W. E. Mccoy of Green's
burg, is county agent, or in any of
the other nineteen counties in 1ndi-
ana in which the agricultural extern
sion department has its appointed
agents. to have his mind rid of any
belief that the county agent move
ment is merely an agricultural fad
The movement is making good, and
the farmers realize that they are
being helped and are rapidly getting
the cooperative spirit for winch the
agents have been working says T.
A. Coleman, supervisor Of the county
agents Of Indiana, and assistant state
leader in the extension department
of Purdue university, who is in the
city visiting A. D. Cobb, county agent
Mr. Coleman is reviewing Agent
Comm's work of the last few months.
The supervisor of county agents is
an ardent supporter of community
meetings for farmers, and has many
examples of the splendid work ac-
compIished by them.
He will take up with Agent Cobb
the perfection of plans made for WIN
ter community meetings, especially
those for the betterment of SOIL con
tilization of the soil.
He says next year the county agents
in the state will receive orders from
Headquarters to give community in
structions in fertilizing soil. Demon
STATIONS will be made from time TO
time and the results Will be fOlleWed
up to ascertain to what extent the
soil can be benefited by cultivation.
The Greensburg agent recently
found an opportunity to develop a
progressive spirit among the farmers
in a corner Of his county. Each OF
several farmers in q community had
a small acreage Of apples, but the
fruit was small, not well developed,
and farm from being of good market
value The farmers had refused to
follow the advice given the mthrough
the agricultural extension department
and consequently were paying Tor
their neglect.
at seemed that the apples would
have TO rot on the ground, is Mr.,
McCoy's way Of telling the story
THE local markets were loaded with
better fruit, and the farmers did not
know of any foreign buyers who would
be interested in a few trees of poor
fruit"
And this was where the county
agent proved his worth. He visited
q number Of Cincinnati buyers, eX-
planned the proposition to them, and
secured the promise that a represent
alive would be sent to look at the
fruit When this buyer visited the or
chards he was surprised by the neg
lect, but made a reasonably fair Of
fer for all the apples in that partcu-
lar community-buying the fruit on
the trees. The result was that sever
I@1I htN3yoht
the Decatur county community as a
direct result of the cooperative in
terest of the agricultural agent.
The next step wis the bringing of
the individual farmers together and
showing them wherein they had failed
before They were given some heart
to-heart talks, the county agent max
ing several trips from Greensburg
just for that purpose, and We're sur
prised to find that the county agent
instead of being : book farmer" was
man who had combined several
years of practical experience with the
training he had secured at the agrt
cultural colleges.
Horticultural demonstrations were
urged, and these is no doubt that the
fruit next year will be of a easily
superior quality. The county agent
will not let the interest lag. The
farmers will probably evince boost
ing spirit along other lines, and De
catur county will benefit from the
power generated by one mantle
county agent.
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