The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-09-07
COUNTY AGENT IS
Quite BUSY MAN
Field Workers Entitled to Much
Credit for Present Expan-
sion of Agriculture.
DON'T uNGER IN LIMEueHT
often Give Unusual Service In Pc
eulIar Way-Put enthusiasm and
Interest Into work Essential
In Bringing Results.

In the present great expulsion and
development of Anei, a. agriculture
officials Of the IOnited sates depart
me1t Of agriculture ai AZ, confident that
q large share o. cieu must be gwen
to the county agricuural agent-the
"missionary o. beer farming" who
works co-opei rately for the federal
government q anthe states and carries
to the farmer ne knowledge developed
by the specialists and scientists.
The work Of the county agent like
every other line of work, is largely
routine and it is never spectacular.
But there is ample evidence that the
county agents as a whole put into
their work the enthusiasm and the in
terest always essential in bringing re-
suits. And occasionally, too, may be
found instances of unusual work done
In an unusual way.
Working on Snowshoes.
The picture with this article shows
q county agent who Travelled 20 miles
on snowshoes to help farmer. He
knew that the farmer wanted an an
alysis made of his business so that he
could know what crops would bring
him the largest return. The county
agent chose the wintry weather be-
cause he knew 1t would prevent the
farmer from doing outside work. SO
he put on his snowshoes and made
the Journey over the snowdrifts and
rough country of FL Paso county, Colo
RADIO.
Five years ago there was no pure
bred live stock in William county,
North Dakota, which is well adapted
for grazing. The county agent began
to advocate live stock raising and now
the county has approximately fifteen
fine herds Of Shorthorn, Angus and
Hereford cattle. A demand for pure
bred cattle is now strong In TINS
county. At two sales last March and
June more than two hundred head
were sold by Williams county farmers
to their neighbors.
Supplying Seed Corn.
Last spring Indiana farmers found
they did not have half enough seed
corn for their needs. They put up
their flight to an assistant state Leader
for county agents, with the result tnat
the county agents surveyed the state
and got accurate estimates from farm
ers of the amounts needed. The assist
mt state leader spent several weeks
in New Jersey, New York and Della.
ware and personally selected enough
corn to meet the Indiana demand
Preferences in shipping were given to
the seed corn and 1t was delivered Ii
ample time for planting.
In Illinois a county agent was sta
toned in Chicago with the state coun'
oil of defense to work on the seed
corn situation. He handled 150OOt
bushels of seeJ corn and met the Ill
nois demand. The work was financed
aft first by Chicago bankers and later
by the department Of agriculture.
An Opportunity Developed.
In Madison county. Kentucky, tht
comfy agent found that the farmers
in one portion placed little value OF
tho soil and took little interest in try
ing to improve it. He also found ina
mopv farmers of this section were
growing in an Indifferent way SINAI
acreage of cantaloupes and that tn
cantaioupes yielded well and were O
fne ouality. The county agent startet
IN TO develop cantaloupe growing AMI
In 1916 induced about twenty farmer