Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-25
Summary County Agent Work
For Last Year.


Should anyone doubt the value
of County Agricultural Work we
ask you to read the following sum-
mary taken from the annual re-
port of County Agent Carwile, which
was submitted to Washington and
Clemson College last December.
Both the County Agent ;and Glenn
son College are anxious to have this
work reach every farmer in the
county, and while this report is be-
ing submitted to the Edgefeld pub
Mc at a late date, still it may be a
means of converting some doubling
Thomas towards this work.
During the past year Mr.. Carwile
travelled 1866 miles, '634 by rail-
road and 7,O51 by automobile dur
ing some very rough weather and
over some very rough, muddy roads.
He made 751 personal calls during
the year upon men demonstrators,
,cooperators, other farmers and club
members; he held S6S consultations
in town and at his Office regarding
agricultural work of the county and
answered Sc telephone calls. MIR.
Carwile's report shows that total
of los farmers, boys and girls
clubs, field meetings, etc., were held
during the year with a total attend
ance of 1882.
The County Agents work was di-
yided as follows: 80 per cent in the
office and 10 per, cent over the coun-
.ty. paying visits and holding meet
ings. His Office work consisted OF
Writing 7s9 official letters, 152 art
icles for the county papers, % cop
les of circular letters with a dis
tribution Of 5,216 copies and mail
ing out 2,473 government bulletins.
Another important phase OF the
work that was done was the visiting
of 49 schools of the county to talk
to the boys and girls, and holding
.of a boys and girls Short Course
in Edgefeld in cooperation with
the Home Demonstration Agent
with total attendance during the
three davs of 165. The County
Agent influenced four boys to take
Che boys short course at Clemson
College last summer. During the
year Mr.. Carwile had 3s OF the
Clemson College specialists in the
county at different times to assist
him with his work.
HI is impossible to give summary
of the entire report since it covers
every phase of agriculture in a book
form OF nearly 12o pages. We shall
give few paragraphs from differ
sent parts of the report:
"our county is fairly well organi-
-zed. We have local units of the Cot
ton Association organized, with
three committeeman from each COM
.munity on the County Executive
Committee. can call on these COM
mittees to get work done in their
respective communitieS through
them. but this, I shall say, reaches
only about per cent of the farmers
of the county. The others have to
reach as best / can. When our
county becomes more thoroughly
organized I can reach all through
the local units.
Sin the summer 1 was called for.
about ten days to aid in the fight
against the army worm as it was
marching upon the corn fields. 1
was busy from morning until night
during, this time. personally as
sisted about 25 men in this fight,
and instructed many others. Person
ally, I saved 80 acres o. corn from
destruction, and was the cause of
many more being saved. l consider
this work, accomplished in about
two weeks, worth all 1 have cost the
people for my salary, and l can
point to several good farmers who
will saw the same thing.
'I got several farmers to plant
Dixie-Triumph cotton on their wilt
infested lands, and they say that it
stands the test all right. One demon
strator told me that he can make
1900 pounds of seed cotton to the
acre of this variety where he had
been making only about 200 pounds
of cotton of a non-wilt variety. We
busted for the boil weevil on several
farms; but got started late and can
not say that the treatment did any