Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-06


 the addresses at the Fourth of July celebration in Casa Grande.
 County Agent Ballentyne of Ora ham county is getting fine results with farmers with his corn improve ment project in Graham county.
 The Pima county Farm Bureau basket picni at Pastime park, with speeches by Dean D. w. Working and County Attorney Kirk T. Moore. was quite a success. Baseball, communi- ty music and athletic sports were all so enjoyed. County Agent c. U. Pickren assisted in the arrangements.
 Miss Grace Tufts, Home Demo1. stration Agent, stationed in Yavapai county, is doing valuable home prn. Ject work with the women of Pres cott and the Verde valley.
 Mrs. Mary Pritner Lockwood. State Leader of Home Demonstrati-u Agents, attended recently an enthus- iastic meetings of the Little Chino Valley Farm Bureau, near Jerome Junction, where farmers and farmers wives are taking an active part in the organization work.
 Mrs. L. s. Parke, State Leader 1s Boys and Girls Clubs, and Miss Az nes 4. Hunt, Asst. State Club Lead | CT, attended a big meeting with the | boys and girls at Pomerene. A cloth | ing conservation program by Miss Hunt was among the demonstrations. Mrs. J. T. Profit, the local leader at Benson, has splendid clubs at both POmerene and St. David.
 Miss Amy Dinsmore, Home Demon stration Agent of Maricopa county for the past year, will the coming year have the Home Economies Vocational Education work at the school at Gil bert. Miss Dinsmore will be missea by the women of Maricopa county. who have been benefited by by her valuable help. Miss Dinsmore's suc- cessor will be placed in Maricopa county this Fall.
 County Agent George W. Scheerer of Yavapai county is already making arrangements to assist with the pub lie livestock meetings, to be held in Yavapai county by the Livestock Squad" in August. MT. Sheerer re- ports many cattle shipped from Yava. pal county ranges this month.
 hfrNf fr lIx, miles from the nearest railway poin County Agent c. R. Fillerup has help ed two ranchers to install modern water systems in their homes. i
 Lieut. ". w. PickrelI, former County Agent for Pima and Pinal ; counties, is back from France. He is visiting with friends in the Salt River Valley, but will return to coun- ty agent work soon, a place having been held for him.
 E. B. Oxley, who has been County Leader for Boys and Girls Clubs in Maricopa county, has been obliged to I give up his work for the time on a~ count of i'll health. He and his wife have gone to Redlands, Cal, that MT. Oxley may take rest.
 Miss Nydia Acker, Asst. Home De- Agent for Cochise Coun. ty, has completed home project work at Douglas, and has returned to her home at Prescott Her work in nn. {, triton, nursing and child care, and ' with the Mexican women and with the Mexican girls who have taken courses under Miss Acker in house. q wifery, has been a great success. q
 County Agent Leader W. NJ. Cook I has just returned from a trip with County Agent Fillerup in Northern Apache and Navajo counties, visiting l the farmers on the Navajo and HopI ! Indian reservation. County Agent, J. w Longstreth, of '; Yuma county, spent a few days of , this week at the Agricultural Exten- f sion office at Tucson, in conference r his alfalfa seed project in a Yuma valley. Last year over 2,000 O sacks of fancy alfalfa were certified c by Mir. Longstreth.
 L. L. Laythe, County Agent of Pima. county, has resigned his position to . accept the management of the George z A. Tweedy ranch, midway between Casa Grande and Florence. Over 500 acres are in crops on this ranch MT ] Laythe will be missed by the Pinal I county farmers whom he has been = serving. His successor will be named = soon.