Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1921-08-10
COUNTY AGENTS HAVE
ASSORTMENT OF DUTIES
Work Carries Them Into Many Differ
ent Activities Of Farm and
Rural Life 5sss sss

Dynamite and vaccinat ton, pig feeding
and motion pictures, road Improvement
and the price of butter, freight rates
and drinking water.
This condemnation of words wasn't
culled from the dictionary and hashed
together. promiscuo usly, it was taken al
most bodily from the reports Of county
agents, in which the work of the cOun-
ty farm bureaus and the agricultural
extention service is reviewed each
month.
In more than 80 counties in Mime
sofa, these reports show, the county
agent and the county farm bureau are
giving practical service that ranges
through the normal tasks of attorney.
surveyor, chemist, importer, welfare
9 worker, road builder, efficiency expert,
and scientific farmer. Here are a few
samples of the things that are being
done by the county agents and the coun-
ty bureaus:
One county agent interviewed post
master to get rural free delivery for
farmers. In Murray county, the agent
obtained samples of drinking water, and
had them analysed to make sure that
the health of community was not be-
ing endangered by impurities. In Big
stone county, the county agent checked
an outbreak of hog cholera in Traverse
he ran levels for drainage systems in
volving more than 1000 acres.
In Dodge county the agent reports
that carlOt shipments Of butter from
cooperative creameries, which he has
helped to arrange, are saving farmers
5000 a car in freight rates. The same
agent turned from butter prices and
freight schedules to fertilizers, and re-
ported that use of phosphate had al
most doubled the stand of clover, spring
wheat and spring rye, on experimental
tracts which he was using as sort or
agricultural laboratory. /.
Wilkin county farm boys had a
weeks outing thru cooperation between
county agents in Minnesota and North
Dakota, with a camp that combined
sports with scientific agriculture.
In Fillmore county, the agent has 20
four-footed laboratories, in which he is
showing farmers the results of scienti-
fc feeding Of pigs. In Cottonwood
county, the agent has developed com
munity vaccination" scheme, by which
he is saving farmers money by having
their hogs vaccinated in wholesale
quantities. ss.ss Il. Sys
Train schedules made work for the
county agent in Jackson county; he
gathered figures on the total business
done by all the cooperative shipping as
sociations in his county as basis Tor
a petition to railroad officials to change
train connections to st. Paul.
From Lyon county the agent reports
the purchase of nearly eight tons OF
seed through the farm bureau office !:
while in Kanabec county the agent paid
attention to getting cattle on the fed
eral accredited list, and in one month
helped in getting tuberculin tests for 81
herds, totaling nearly 1,4OO animals.
The report Of the county agent in
Koochiching county deals with dyna-
mite, stock feed, road Improvement and
motion pictures all mixed up together !;
and in Todd county the agent put on a
two day automobile tour that intro
duced farm children in one part of the
county. to those in the other, by the
simple process of loading the boys and
girls in cars and taking them on visit
en- masse. @