The Mena weekly star., 1916-05-25
HELP FOR FARMERS
 SUBJECT 10 CALL
Arkansas Has Great Force of Spe- cialists in Farm Crop, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Animal Dis
 eases and Home Economies.

country for carrying out deilnlte
 instructions for farm folks. If is known as the Extension Service of the University of Arkansas cooper atine with the U. S Department of Agriculture. and it now includes iii people. Ninety one of these are men and women that work in coun-
 ties as agricultural and home de- nostration agents and the others
 are supervisors and specialists.
 The work of these specialists $ extremely interesting. These in-
 cIude specialists in farm crops, hor- ticuIture, animal husbandry, animal diseases and home economics. They
 serve anybody or any community, working in counties with county
 agents and also in counties that do not have county agents. A brief re-
 port of the work for the past two years as gathered from the records
 of the office of Mr. w. (. Lasseter,
 Assistant Director for this Exten-
 sion Service, will interest a good many people.
 Mr. ]. II. Mcleod is the animal
 husbandry specialist for the tick in-
 fected territory, and since last Oc-
 tober he has been traveling all over southern Arkansas conferring with
 bankers and farmers and addressing meetings in the interest of better live stock. About the first of May, after having worked in Logan coun-
 ty with the county agricultural agent for a few weeks, he went to Texas with a committee from that lcounty and assisted in the buying of two ears of registered shorthorn bulls. During the greater part of ] the past week he has been in Miller county visiting in company with the lcounty agricultural agent, farmers and planters who are interested in lpure bred stock, and held a meeting in Texarkana on Saturday, May t3, and the bankers of Texarkana are to l finance, where necessary, the farm CTS in that county in the purchase of pure bred stock, and at this time he is probably in Texas with conn mittee from Miller county.
 Mir. D. H. Forester is the animal husbandry specialist working in CO., operation with the Bureau of Ani- mal Industry for the tick-free ter ritory and he has been for the past two weeks holding special meeting in Carroll Benton and Woodruff counties A committee has gone from Carroll county to purchase a car of pure bred bulls, this venture
 being financed by bankers of Eureka
 Springs. Committees from Benton and Woodruff counties will proba- bly, go this week.
 Mir. R. H. Mason, the dairy special
 ist from the Bureau of Animal In- dustry, has held in the last two weeks butter making and cream separator demonstrations in Clay, Randolph and Benton counties, es- tablishing classes in butter making and helping to arrange for cream shipping routes, and planning sta 1 bles and sheds and milk houses for farmers who are getting into the dairy business.
 Mr Earl Fitzpatrick, specialist in farm crops, has assisted county agents in Craighead and Yell coun-
 ties on pastures, terracing and drainage problems and he also vis- tied several farms in Johnson eoun- ty where there is no county agent and planned for extensive terracine work to he done later in the year.
 Mir. ] s. Knox, the horticulturist. has visited orchards and truck fields, on request, in the past two weeks in Washington, Columbia, Hampstead, Clark and Little River counties, planning for spraying of orchards and truck crops and ad- Ivising as to methods of handling these problems.
 Mir. J. E. Gibson, specialist in the hog cholera control, has assisted county agents in several counties in vaccination work and has done spe- cial work. on call, in several coun- ties.
 Mir. Lawrence Foot. specialist in meat curing, has visited ice plants in Fl Dorado and other towns where the owners of said plants purchased last winter slaughtered hogs from farmers.
 Mr. W. X. Denman. specialist in tick eradication. has supervised the building of dipping vats in south western Arkansas and has instruct ed one or two county agents that had not hitherto had experience in this work MT. Denman's whole time is given to building dipping lvats in eight counties in the south- western corner of the state
 Mir. Jernigan and Mr. Sanders, agents in charge of the boys club work. have had meetings for boys in several counties and have con- ferred with bankers relative te prizes for boys' corn clubs and pig lclubs and for financing boys who desire to enter the pig club work i Miss Archer and Miss Tennyson, agents in charge of the girls club work, have conducted schools for the home demonstration agents for Southeastern Arkansas at Monticel-
 To, and al Magnolia for these home demonstration agents in Southwest ern Arkansas. and at JOnesboro for those in the northeastern part of the
 state, and on May i9 and 20 will con- l dHcf A school af Eaveffpvilla for