The Little River news., 1921-01-12
Seven=FOld State Plan
 For Extension Service

Fayetteville, Jan. 11,-(SpeciaD -| Seven definite lines of agricultural ac- tivity have been outlined by M. T. Payne, director of the Agricultural ex- tension division, University of Arkan- sas, and U. s. Department of Agri- culture, according to which the county farm aients, district farm agents and specialists of the Extension Service will carry out their work in the var ious counties of the state which have provided for demonstration work for the coming year.
 This seven-fold state plan for the county farm agents includes first, work with community organizations, second, boys club work, third, field crop demonstrations, fourth, horticul- tural demonstrations, first, soil im- provement demonstration, sixth, CO., operative marketing. and seventh, de- monstrations with live stock. Re- cords will be kept by each county agent in the state and at the close of next year the record will be handled in to the directors office where data and results for the years work for the entire state will be compiled.
 The county farm agents and home demonstration agents will aid the farmers of their county in forming community and county organizations such work as the farmers of the coun- ty see fit to form. Organization work will be conducted with a number of communities in each county with the view of demonstrating the value of CO., operative community effort. Whenever any organization desires to undertake cooperative marketing or purchasing of supplies the county agent will give them all possible technical information but he will not transact private busi- ness for either an individual or or ganization.
 One fourth of the county agents time will be devoted to work with boys clubs. Boys clubs will engage in the raising of crops, peanuts, potatoes. cotton, pigs, calves and sheep. When ever possible county short courses, stock judging contests, and club ral- lies will be held for the boys.
 Many Demonstrations,
 Each county agents will endeavor to conduct 25 or more demonstrations in field crops in cooperation with the farmers. It is planned to secure the cooperation of communities and con- duct frorm 10 to 15 community field crop demonstrations. Field meetings will be held occasionally on the farms of the community demonstrators when all the co-operators and other neigh boring farmers will be invited to at- tend.
 Soil improvement demonstrations will consist of terracing and drainage demonstrations, building of soil saving dams, levees, and soil drainage with dynamite, putting hillsides to perma- nent pastures, turning under corn stalks and trash, cover crops and green manure crops, and demonstra- tions in the use of commercial fertil- izer in cooperation with the state ex- pertinent station.
 The county agents will aid in estab- fishing cooperative sweet potato cur ing houses. Assistance and informa- tion and blue prints will be givtn any farmer or group of farmers who de- sire to build storage house. Demon strations in organizing live stock ship ping associations will be given with assistance in developing organizations for the handling of miscellaneous pro- ducts of the farm.
 Work With Live Stock. Work with live stock will mainly De in urging the adoption of pure bred sires for grade herds. Pure bred bull and boar clubs will be organized. De- monstrations will be made showing the advantage of the small flock of sheep on the farm. Assistance and in- formation will be given in regard to the management of the dairy herd, 1n- cluding proper methods of feeding, and keeping milk records of each ami nal. An effort will be made to intrr- duce and distribute better swine by se- curing two good brood sows to produce two filters of pigs each year on each 40 acre farm as the case may justify.
 In short it is the purpose of the az ricultural extension division of the un- iversity of Arkansas to take to the farmers of the state definite program whereby farming of Arkansas may be put upon a morre sound and permanent basis.