Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-04-19
The County Agents

the states OF the noftn ana west. IL
has been decade of wonderful ac-
complishment and development; a
decade in which there have been set
in motion forces whose influence
for good, perhaps, cannot be meas
ured now, but to the development OF
which the agricultural interest of
the land may look with pleasing an
ticipation.
In the ten years, county agent
work has grown from a position of
absolute struggle to hold place in
the face of the bitter prejudice of
many farmers against book fam
ing" and the advice emanating
from agricultural colleges, until 1t
has become an integral part and a
directing influence in that compre-
hensive movement that is finding It's
expression through the organization
of farmers in the interest of their
industry and particularly, in the or
ganization of the county farm bu-
reaus and their declarations, both
state and national. From its minor
efforts and accomplishments OF
teaching better methods of produc-
ton on Individual farms, the work OF
the county agent has expanded into
that wider field that more compre-
hensive service that would seek the
greatest good to the greatest num-
Der, and has added to its original
study of the problems of production
the study of the more intricate pro-
blems of distribution with all the at
tendant problems of transportation,
marketing, legislation and finance.
Herein lies the field of endeavor in
which county farm agents, farm
leaders and the men who direct the
administrator of the states relation
service under the provisions of the
law are bending their
energies and hoping to bring forth
great accomplishments.
In the more recent activities in
which the county farm agent is the
factor, we find the farm
bureau responding to his direction
and originating, organizing and
all those agencies that help
o carry out the larger programs of
service that have been suggested by
he study of the problems of market
ng and distribution. Cooperative
marketing and purchasing organiza-
ions, live stock breeders associa-
ions, agricultural clubs, shipping
associations, farm loan associations
md many other organizations that
lave for their purpose to increase
he revenues of the farm have sprung
I'D i'm response to the efforts of the
ounty agents who in their legiti-
nate service foster their organiza-
ion and advise in regard to their
proper method of procedure. The
timulus the county agent has given
o cooperation among farmers
would easily justify all the expense
and labor involved in county agent !
work.
The county farm agent has lived
up to the accomplishment of the task
that was set for him to do-"to help
to establish a profitable, economical
ly sound agriculture and satiSfac-
tory home and community life The
broad trail of his work is to be found
holding its way through all the
agricultural counties in the land
where county agent services have
been enjoyed; it is found in the
form of increased fertility of the
soil, in the improvement of seed, in
better farm management, in the
elimination of scrub sires, in the
community and county organizations
for cooperation in making the life
of the rural community better, IL
the thousands of farm clubs among
the boys and girls that will tran
them in the rudiments of successful
agriculture.
The county farm agent has bee
, one of the most useful America
citizens in the decade that has JUS
: closed.-Hampton Chronicle.