Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-10

III. w. Hochbaum, leader of county |
agent work in Idaho. under the aus
pices of the extension department of
the University of Idaho. and the United
States department of agriculture, CO.
operating, has issued the following re-
port on the work of county agents for
the month of September;
"Of special interest this month Is the
visit in Boise and Caldwell of r. L.
Simons. of the office of extension work.
north and west. United States depart
ment of agriculture. Mr.. Simons
brought some definite plans and de-
tails of a type of county organization
known in the east as a county farm
bureau. The aim is to organize the
farmers of a county in groups to work
with the leadership of a county agri-
cultural agent on a definite program
of farm and country life improvement.
This entails a paid membership. rep
resentative leading farmers in every
community of county as active work.
ers on the improvement program. with
an advisory council made up of nine
leaders in special fields of farming to
direct and supervise the work. I'm
questionably, the plan, markedly sue
cessful in New York state where they
have 36 county farm bureaus, is the
best yet developed to get the people of
county behind the county agent and
to get them to definitely work together
on the farm problems of a county.
FARMERS LIKE PLAN.
"Folloving the suggestions of Mr..
Simons, organization campaigns have
been started in Lewis and Canyon
counties. These will be followed by
similar campo gns in every county in
which an agent is employed, and in all
counties which desire to employ an
agent. Though this is an exceedingly
busy time of the year for the farmer,
in both counties where the work is
started, the farmers turned out we'll
and received the plan with unusual in
terest Both the county agents con-
cerned were surprised by the support
given the plans by farmers and are
looking forward to working next year
with an interested working group of
farmers.
ORGANIZATION MEETINGS.
IN Lewis county the farmers arc
working for an initial membership of
900 paid members by oct. H. on that
day a big picnic and barbecue will be
held to which all the farmers of the
county are invited. The organization
will be completed at this meeting. Of
ficers elected. and a program of work
for the winter decided upon. In Cam
yon county the farmers are working
for an initial membership of $50 bv
Oct. rs. In every community. farmers
are out enlistinr the sunnort NJ the
progressive farmers of the comnunitv
Final rizHfino will he LOTT
and the program of work and winter
meetings win he decided upon at a
farm bureau picnic at raIdveu. oct. 9S.
In both Counties Far,, R,roa, Ne,,s
will he published by committee of
farmers This will carry to the mem
beers, news of the work the farm bu
reau in doing; notices of demonstra
tons, meetings and the like: timely
hints by farmers on methods and prac-
tees; news notes of the county agents
activities, as well as a farmers ex-
change list.
AGENTS BUSY HELPING FAIRS.
In almost every county where there
is county agent. these men have
helped during September in organizing
county fairs, in helping the local fair
boards to make these agencies more
effective and worth while. A county
fair can be made to serve some most
useful purposes The agents have
tried TO help bring these out. by EN- =
pha szing the educational features and
really worth while competitive exhib-
its. The agents also helped TO make
this year at the Gem state fai, ~