The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11
Adding Much Pep
to Important Work

| The State Agricultural Extension
Service and Home Demonstration De-
partment, with headquarters at Col
umbia, is just now entering upon q
Campaign of intensive community
work in various counties of the State
that are already organized for such
work by having farm agent or home
demonstrator-eithe one or both
but all counties having both such
agents has long lead in getting all
kinds of initial or educational work
first.
The fact that st. Francois county
has both a farm agent and home
demonstration agent has made most
favorable impression on the controls
ing heads of these departments OF
what is in reality a wonderful work.
Better farming, as well as improved
home economics, means not only
greater prosperity throughout the ru7
raj communities, but also makes farm
life more attractive, especially to the
women, by removing from them Q
very large part of the drudgery OF
life, which was formerly considered
| their legitimate portion of farm work.
| L HG IUdIlibT III Which, lhuSh VI tAkS
drudgery of the housewife is being
removed from her patient shoulders
can only be thoroughly understood at
| ter visiting the homes of some OF
those who have become interested in
home economics, which the St. Fran
co.'s county Demonstration Agent, MISS
Pet Tucker, has been so industriously
and successfully promulgating among
all those who will give heed-and The
Times is especially pleased to note
that those who are willing to take a
more advanced hold on farm life are
rapidly increasing. There is really
nothing, to take the place of home
demonstration work for the advance
ment and upbuilding of the human
race.
Miss Tucker has recently received q
letter from Miss Carrie Pancoast,
State Home Demonstration Leader, in
which she says that representative
from the mems, as well as from the
women's department, will be sent ia
this State from Washington, begin
ming this week. Miss Pancoast also
says that it will be possible for then
"to go to only one or two counties, anc
| we have tried to select those where
we feel we have a good agricultnra
] and home demonstration agent, ant
real, interested people. 1t will be pos
sible for us to work only two counties
and we have selected st. FRANCOIS
| county as one of them."
, Though the home demonstration
Z work has been in progress in TIM
a county less than year, at very httl'
! expense to the county, already tn
a splendid things that are being ,accomp
J lished, especially in liberating. the ,ys'
! men from O lifetime of drudgery, i
each day becoming more and more ap
: parent. Progress in this department
' can only be measured by the willing
ness of the farm wives and daughter!
to hear and heed what to them is prov
ing to be declaration of emancipa
tion. The initial contract for the EN-
ployment of a Home Demonstration
Agent in this county will soon be eX
piring, but it is the earnest hope anl
fetvent wish of all who have beef
watching the splendid progress o
such work in this county for the pas
several months that the office will b.
continued, and that the heretofor
sadly over-worked farm-wlves ma,
continue to hold to this tow-line of re
lief.
This work costs st. Francois count
only $3.50 a year, and it is the sentl
ment of all those who have been close
ly watching the progress of this splen
:, did work that it would be hard to. in
\ vest $3.50 to greater advantage tina
4 applying it on the expense ACCOUNT o
q the Home Demonstration Agent. Tn
q Government also thinks enough
Z this work to be willing to pay the sa
d ary of all such agents, as it realize
that without such work it would b
impossible to build up-.even to su'
tain--the high class of citizenship an
manhood for which this country
) justly noted.