Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-03-05
AGAIN URGING
COUNTY AGENT
COUNTY DEFENSE COUNCIL TO
MAKE EFFORT TO LEARN
TAXPAYERS WISHES -t
ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHOSEN
Special Farm Bureau Organizer To
Work Here.

In response to the requests of the
state Defense Council Chairman M.
P. DeWolf called meeting Saturday
night of the county Defense Council
for the purpose of considering and
acting upon the question of attempt
ing to secure a county agent In
Boundary county.
R. A. McCully, state farm bureau
organizer, met with the council and
explained the need of a farm agent
and answered the many questions
asked of him by Defense Council
members. The advisibilitv of placing
a county agent in the field so late
in the year was discussed and it
was finally agreed that a committee
should be appointed by Acting Chair
man Brown which would confer with
the farmers and taxpayers in an eff
fort to get all united in favor of the
county agent plan. Chairman Brown
appointed on the advisory committee
A. D. Welch, T. ]. Jones, 0. H..
Campbell, A. V Hemming and Martin
Peterson. This committee will meet
today with Mr.. McCully and prepare
for the work to be done.
At the meeting of the Defense
Council Mr.. McCully told in the fol-
lowing words of the relation between
the county agent and the farm
bureau:
"Many residents of Boundary coun-
ty do not understand the relations
between the farm bureau and the
county agent, and have the wrong
conception of the county agents du
ties or work, nor are they fully
familiar with the farm bureau or
ganization.
The farm bureau is county wide.
Its membership is open to all res
dents of the county who are inter-
ested in agricultural Improvement.
but at least so per cent must be
actual farmers. A nominal member
ship fee of one dollar is charged to
obtain funds to carry on the business
of the bureau.
The members elect the officers and
the executive committeeman. This
committee manages the affairs of the
bureau and each is selected because
of their special qualifications to SUI
pervise some branch of agriculture,
as dairying, stock, fruit. etc.
In each community is an active
committee of 3 or members to rep
resent the bureau and assist the
o. county agent in that section of the
county. These committeeman are Sc
lected by the executive committee
and are chosen because they repre-
sent some special agricultural in
dustry as dairying, etc.
The chairmen of the various COM
munity committees make up the adj
visory council, who with the execU-
tive committee decide upon the agri-
cultural improvement program for
the county and to be carried out by
the county agent.
Many farmers have the idea that
the county agent is placed in the
county for the purpose of going in
to the farmers field and demand that
he grow certain crops and follow
some particular cultural method. 1t
must be remembered that the county
agent is a human being and cannot
be an agent in all branches of agri-
cultural science. He works under
we'll defined plans made by the adj
visory council and executive commit
tee. He knows in advance that on p
certain hour of certain day he will
have a meeting in a certain commu-
nifty to discuss q certain feature of
the agricultural program. If it hap
pens to be a subject that he is not
familiar with he obtains the best au-
thority from the college to present
the subject to the people. He is in
a position to collect data and distrib
ute it through the well arranged
plan of organization. He is always
willing to make suggestions when
asked to do so, but his work is far
more important than looking for
trouble from the skeptical farmer.
Nothing but good could be the out
come from a gathering of a repre-
sentative farmers from each commu-
nifty of Boundary county to discuss
the means of advancing the best
agricultural industries. Such a gath
ering would be possible at least once
a year under the farm bureau orga-
nization."