The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-12-20
MUCH AID GIVEN
STOCK INDUSTRY
Extension Service Provided Ef-
feCtive Means of DISSENT
mating Needed Facts.
HELP FROM COUNTY AGENTS
Stoct<men and Dairymen in All Parts
of Country Assisted in Solving
Their Problems and Increasing
Production.

When it became essential to organ
iEe the agricultural forces of the Unit
ed States on q war basis and to in
struct both city and country people
how best to increase, utilize and con-
serve the limited food supply. it was
Immediately recognized that the coop
erative extension system, with its COM
binatiOn of federal and state admins
trative officers and specialists, with
county agents, farm bureaus and 9th
er local organizations, provided very
effective means for nationwide dis
semination of the needed facts, as well
as for practical demonstrations of the
measures required to increase agricul-
tura1 production and. to secure the
most economical utilization OF the
products of the farms.
The war found American agriculture
prepared with an extension Organiza-
ton well begun, and immediate steps
We're taken to put the extension serv-
ice on war basis. On April I, .1917,
the extension workers in the United
States numbered 2,149, of which 1,461
were county agents, 545 home demon
stration agents, and 143 club workers.
On July !, 1913, the total number had
increased to 6,216, including 3001 in
county agent work, 2,304 in home dem
onstration work, and 1,181 boys and
girls club workers.
County Agent Work in South.
An important part of the food pro-
duction campaign was to increase live
stock production. In this. as in the
other work of the campaign. all of the
divisions of the extension service have
taken prominent part. During the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1913, c0un-
ty agents in the ID Southern states
conducted feeding demonstrations with
1888 beef cattle. Through their eff
forts 5S007 beef cattle were brought
into the territory for breeding pur-
poses. They conducted 30041 demon
STATIONS in the feeding and manage
ment of swine, assisted in building p
256 dipping watts which were needed in
the eradication of the cattle fever tick
and which played an important part
in making this year q record in stamp
ing out the parasite in Southern states.
Through the efforts of the county
agents In the South 5,517 siIos were
built. They instructed 36.031 farmers
in the better care of farm manure,
thus preventing a waste of valuable
source of soil fertility. BY cO-operat-
ing with county agents in the drought
stricken areas of Texas the Southern
county agents assisted in transporting
100000 head of cattle from sections
where feed was scarce to sections in
the Southeastern states where feed
and pasture were plentiful.
The boys club workers in the South
ern States organized 2,96S calf clubs.
31,375 pig clubs and 1888 poultry
clubs.
cbunty Agent Work in North and
West.
The comfy agents in the SO North
ern and Western states supervised
demonstrations with rs, $50 head of
live stock. Realizing the importance
of conserving succulent feed, especial
~ FOR dairy cows, the county agents in
several states carried on definite cam
paigns to encourage farmers to build
siIos, which resulted in 1926 silos be-
ing erected. Silo-bu.}ding- campaigns
were carried on most intenSively by
the county agents in Indiana, Wiscon-
sin, Iowa and Pennsylvania. Reports
received from county agents indicated
that nearly third OF Il million acres
of siIage corn was grown last year at
their suggestion in the Northern and
Western states.
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