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who wants special advice, whether it
be on crops, stock. soil, or whatever
problem he wants expert assistance
upon.
The duties of a county agent and
the various services he performs are
almost without limit according to
the experience of the q counties in
which these men are now employed
and the results of their work have
been so apparent that five counties
are now in process of organization to
secure agents themselves.
UNANIMOUS VOTE
At the close of Mr.. Andrews talk
Thursday afternoon the men at the
meeting passed upon the plan with.
out a dissenting vote and after the
election of temporary officers work
was begun upon plans for the mem
bership campaign which opens Sat
urday.
1t was decided to divide the county
and meetings will be held in each
community before the campaign clos.
es to give the farmers in each dis.
trict an opportunity to hear a full ex.
planation of county agents work and
what it means to each man in the
community. These meetings will
start Saturday night, the first one be.
ing held at the Weaver school in Lib.
erty township.
Community chairmen have been
named by the president, who will aid
in arranging dates for the meetings
in the remainder of the county and
Mr.. Andrews has requested that these
chairmen confer with him by tele-
phone at the Chamber of Commerce
to arrange a schedule that will prove
most satisfactory.
WILL HAVE TEAMS
In addition to this work, the chair
men in each community will be in
charge of team of five men, which
will be named in the near future anil
these teams will secure memberships
{ for the farm bureau. Under this plan
! the members at the organization
| meeting feel that it will be an easy
matter to put Knox county "over the
! top" with 900 members and sustain
its reputation as a county that does
not know what it means to fail in Sc
curing quota.
If the organization is successful in
| securing 1000 members it will be the
! first county in the state with respect
| to initial membership, as no county
| having a farm bureau has organized
| with n membership that large and
after organization none have attempt
ed to increase the membership with
the exception of Marion county,
which now has membership of 900
and is engaged in campaign to Sc
/ cure 900 new members after having
had county agent for about one
year and seeing what he can accom-
plish.
~ BEAT MARION, is AIM
/ A spirit of rivalry cropped out in
I the meeting Thursday when the rela-
/ tive memberships in the various
! counties were mentioned, one man
I declaring that if Marion county could
secure 800 members and expected to
get 1000, Knox county could surely
go her one better on organization and
! get 900 to start with.
The community chairman named
! by President Simms may be given
quotas in accordance with the size
of their districts before the campaign
starts, but this has not been definite.
ly decided upon and the idea at pres
ent is first to secure at least 1000
members, second to secure as many
more members as possible, and third
to organize Knox county with larg'
er membership than any other county
in Ohio.
CHAiRMEN NAMED
The chairmen of the various com
munities as named by President
Simms are:
Berlin-C. A. Gregg
Brown-H. h. Whitney.
Butler-Chares Clark
Clay-Samuel Harris.
Clinton-William l.. Ward.
College-J0hn Cunningham.
Howard. G. Simpson.
larrison-C. l.. Wolfe.
Ililliar-J h. Litzenberg.
Jeiierson-J +. Beatty.
Jackson. c. Earleywine.
Liberty. W. Ransom
Middlebury-H r.. Leedy
Monroe. G. Welsh.
Morris-O. Il, Nixon.
Morgan-John Woodruff,
Miller-Robert Baxter
Milford-C. b. Jackson,
Pike. f. Braddock.
Pleasant. Nj. Walker.
/ Union-M. T. Gaines.