Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1918-02-23
COUNTY AGENT
Emergency Agent for Custer County As
sured if 200 Members or Signers
Can be Secured

Agent of Hughes county, S. d., was
present at the adjourned meeting of the
county commissioners February 10Th.
The Emergency County Agent work was
explained at this meeting. The county
commissioners have agreed to appropri-
ate $4,000 for this work providing that
the county obtain 200 members or sign
ers at Sl.00 each. These members will
organize an Emergency Farm Bureau to
carry on the work. An application will
be sent to the Department of Agricul-
ture at Washington, d. c., just as soon
as the committee obtains the two hun
dred members.
1t is very important that the commit
tee from the different districts in Custer
county should have their campaign
closed as soon as possible and the list Of
names sent to the Chairman. The com,
munity around Hermosa has sent in lO5
members.
The money raised in Custer county
will be used for office expense only.
The salary and expenses of the Emer.
gency Agent will be paid by the Federal
Government. The expenses of the
Emergency Agent paid by the Federal
Government will include the use of a
car, railroad and hotel expense when
away from Custer, the county seat.
The committees at work on member
ship in each community should report
the number of members they have each
week to NJ. G.. SCanlon, Hermosa chair
man for Custer county.
The opening of the 1918 crop season
will find the agricultural counties of the
state organized for greater crop and live
stock production. Since the passage of
the Food Act by Congress last August
the Extension Division has been active
in assisting the farmers in the different
communities throughout the state in
forming an Emergency Agricultural
Bureau for organizing and standardizing
agricultural production for 1918 and for |
in the more efficient distrbu- |
tion and conservation of the food pro- |
ducts. Such Bureau has the power to
employ an Emergency Demonstration
Agent whose salary and expenses are
paid from Federal funds and whose
work is quite similar to that Of the Coun.
ty Agent.
The hope of Congress in passing the
Food Act was that every agricultural !
county in the United States would or.
ganize and avail itself of the services of |
an agent by the beginning of the 1918 |
crop season. The farmers throughout |
the various communities have taken |
keen interest in the organization work
and the present outlook is that South |
Dakota will fulfill the hopes expressed |
By Congress last fall. To date there are
nineteen counties that have completed |
their organization and ten others are at
present conducting a membership cam
paign. By the first of March most
of these will have completed |
the Bureau and by April first the re-
naming counties desiring the work will |
have been organized.
The action of Congress in making such |
a provision is one of the best stamps of |
that could have been placed |
upon the Farm Bureau County Agent |
work. The Importance of the work and |
effort conducted by these organizations
was fully recognized and their national |
during the present food |
was announced to the country |
at large. The Farm Bureau is the or |
ganization of the farmers of commun-
ity interested in the just solution of the |
farm and community problems and in
the Standardization of the most efficient
methods of crop and livestock produc-
ton. The agent whose work is directed
by the Bureau does not go about his
work as a know-it-all. He assists in the
solution of the farm problems of the
community and carries ont the work the
farmers have outlined for him through
their Bureau. This is one strong reason
why the other agricultural counties of
the state have taken to the Agricultural
Bureau work so readily. The fourteen
Farm Bureau County Agent counties
have helped to pave the way for an
effective state wide organization for our
1918 production.