The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-06-09

| Then, too. he has worked up a one
acre corn contest for the boys and got
one of the banks to offer a prize of IS
in each Of the twelve townships and a
county prize. Going TO send another
boy off to the short course at Purdue
No. He didn't even let the girls alone.
He has got them at work on q garden
ing and canning contest, and again he
has offered prizes for the best results.
He wasn't satisfied to have a lot
of the boys raise pigs from the sows
their dads had. Nothing would do him
but that he must get about 80 farm
ers and as many business men to put
up $40 each and let him buy ~ pure
bred registered gifts and give one to
a boy In each township. He promises
to make every boy give back two
female pigs this fall and says that he
viii then give them to two other boys
in the same township and on the same
terms. He says he Is going to keep
this up until the fall of 1920 when he
is going to sell the pigs that belong to
the pig club and return the money to
the men who put It up. He says there
will be a big surplus and that this
should be used to buy some more pure
bred cattle to be distributed around
white and he even made the parents
sign an agreement that the pigs
should belong to the boys that raised
them and not to their dads
1T looks all right on paper, but
what we would like to know is, where
he is going to sell all the pigs in 1920.
There will be SO many pure-bred
registered pigs in Monroe county at
the end OF four years that the whole
German army couldn't make an i'm
preston even at the end of a week of
fasting Pure-bred pigs will be so
common around here that you couldn't
even give one away.
when the county agent came here
there were only four farmers organi-
cations. Now there are 81. He has got
ten every little community to organize
a society of some kind or other and
to meet regularly and talk over their
troubles. Then he got the small or
CARNATIONS to get together by, town
ships and then the townships to get
together and form county wide or
ganization called the Monroe County
Agricultural organization, and incor-
porate 1t. Every organization in the
county is represented in the associa-
ton. They say they are going to cut
up some didos. Have already arranged
to hold a fair in Bloomington this
fall. More fun and frolic for the farm
er. Just what 1t is all going to lead
to is hard to tell.
Altogether, we can readily see why
some county officials do not want a
county agent. for our experience here
is that the pesky critters soon get the
farmers busy looking for something
that will help the sore spots. and when
the farmer really gets to thinking 1t
is not long until he begins to think
that he is entitled to more considera-
ton than he has sometimes received.
Up until recently itShas been possible
to handle the farmer just any old way
because he would persist in acting as
an individual instead OF working to-
gether with his neighbors. Better keep
the county agent out of there unless
you want your farmers 10 get more
prosperous and therefore independent.
I'VE don't mind telling some of these
secrets on our county agent 10. o.
Rainbolt) cause we were among the
first to get fooled into these things and
he even made us help him put some
of them over.