The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-06-15
A Department Devoted Exclusively to Farm
Affairs in Hand County
Contributed to by E. II. AICHER, Hand County Agri. Agent

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to persons not attending or resi-
lent in said colleges in the several
communities, and imparting to
such persons information on said
subjects through field demonstra-
tions, publications, and otherwise,
and this work shall be carried on
in such manner as may be mutual
ly agreed upon by the Secretary
of Agriculture and the State ag-
ricultLral college or colleges re-
Ceiying the benefits of this act.
This extension work will deal not
only with agricultural production but
also with economic problems, includ-
ing marketing and cooperative assO-
Citations and with the interests of the
farm home and the rural community.
The extension service, including the
county agent, is as much interested in
the marketing, distribution and utiliZ-
alton of form products as 1t is in pro-
duction, and it may properly give in
formation and help in all Of these
lines.
The Extension Service in each State
is under the administrative manage
ment Of an Extension Director, who is
the joint representative of the College
and the Department. Under the direc-
tor are the State agents OF leaders, the
extension specialists and the county
agricultural agents, home demonstra-
ton agents and club agents or leaders.
The extension directors are authoriz-
| ed to enter into cooperative agree
ments with county officials and farm
bureaus or like organizations with ref
erence to financial support for the
maintenance of extension work in the
county and the plans for the use of
the cooperative funds in the extension
work within the county.
Basis Of Cooperation
The general basis of cooperation be-
tween the county farm bureau and the
Extension Service will be as follows:
The County Agricultural Agents,
Home Demonstration Agents and Club
Agents comparatively employed will be
members of the extension service of
the State Agricultural College and I'M
der the administrative direction of the
Extension Director, and will carry on
such lines of extension work as may
be mutually agreed upon by represent
atives of the agricultural college and
the farm bureaus or other like organ
%iZations.'
Since these county extension agents
are part of a public service as defined
in the Smith-Lever Act, and receive
some part of their salary from public
funds, they are to perform service for
the benefit Of all the farming people
of the county whether members of the
farm bureaus or not. and are to con-
fine their activities to such as are ap-
propriate for public officials to per-
form under the terms of the Smith
Lever Act. The county agents will
aid the farming people in a broad way
with reference to problems of produc-
ion, marketing and formation of farm
bureaus and other cooperative organ
izations but will not themselves organ
re farm bureaus or similar organiza-
tons, conduct membership campaigns,
solicit memberships, receive dues,
handle farm bureau funds, edit and
manage the Farm Bureau publications,
manage the business of the farm bu-
lreau, engage in commercial activities
or take part in other farm bureau ac-
~tivities which are outside their duties
as extension agents.
The county agents and other extern
sion agents will cooperate with the
Farm Bureaus Or other like organiza-
tons interested In extension work in
the formulation of county and COM
munity plans of cooperative extension
work. 1t will then be the duty of the
county agents under general direction
of the Extension Director to take
| pharUn IF tho narryfnn nrxt ~ rvrnH
plans and to cooperate with officers,
committees and members of the form
bureaus and with other organizations
and residents of the county in the
prompt and efficient execution of these
plans.
TerminOlOgy
In order to do away as far as posi-
BILE with the confusion now existing in
the public mind regarding the organ-
iZotion and work of the Farm Bureau
as related to the county agents and
the Extension Service generally, it is
recommended that hereafter in publ
cations and otherwise the cooperative
extension service shall be d%ifferentiat-
ed from the farm bureau work. That
is, the farm bureau will have its rela-
lions with extension service consist
ing of the county agents, extension
committees, demonstrations, etc. as
one of its departments. Other depart
ments might be a publicity department
which would prepare and publish a
periodical (Farm Bureau News), press
articles and notices, announcements of
meetings, etc., department of relations
with marketing and other cooperative
associations, etc.
The work which centers in the ooun-
ty agents would be designated as the
Cooperative Extension Service and the
miscellaneous enterprises of the Farm
Bureau as Farm Bureau work.
Farm Bureau Federation
The County Farm Bureau have their
State and National (American) Farm
Bureau Federations. which are work
ing on economic and legislative mat
tiers and are also promoting the extern
sion service and agricultural educa-
ton and research. These F~ederations
are, however, not directly connected
with the Extension Service and do not
enter into cooperative agreements with
the State Colleges and the Department
fof Agriculture involving the use or
Federation funds and the muJovn ant