The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-03-18
By GONIUS LAuRSEN

very much obliged if our county
commissioners, Jack Bennett and
all others, who claim our county
agent is so valuable to the farm
ers, would only tell US what good
he is doing, or what good he ever
did. l, for one, have been hunting
in every corner of my brains to
try TO find some little thing of
value that he has done for me but
l had to give it up. l can't find
a thing, but thinking / must be
an exception, asked my neigh
bors but they were also unable TO
think Of anything of value that
he ever did for them, so lately I
have been inquiring of every Tom,
Dick and Harry, thinking he sure
must have done some one, some
where, some valuable service, but
all l have been able to find is
that he gets these exchange lists
made up and that he helps the
boys club work along.
I asked the party that mention
ed the exchange list if he ever
made any money on account of it.
He admitted he never did, nor did
he know of any that had, but he
thot some one must. If the ones
helped by these exchange lists are
so few that it is hard to find
them, then this is mighty expen-
sive help, and it should not be i'm
possible to get these exchange lists
made up without paying a county
agent $4,OOO-$5,OO0 a year.
Next comes the club work. VIII
some one please step to the front
and tell us just what good this is
I doing. l will admit the boys gen
orally play base ball and last fall
: when the club work had stopped
5 then our county agent thanked
r Senator Angvick very heartily fol
: his splendid help with the bal
: games. This might be wortl
d around $1,000 a year to the com
e ty, but l for one fail to see it.
d suppose some one is now ready t.
7 jump up and tell US that our agen
, is making better farmers out O
: the boys at these Club meetings
: but 1 have been unable to fin,
just one single thing of value tina
o he has taught them, and are W
z not told at every occasion tina
II our trouble is overproduction.
ID I know the farmers are suppos
h ed to be an ignorant set of peopl
D. and I will admit it takes more ir
telligence than / am in possessio
of to understand all the adviC
IS that we are getting from our Sc
n called best brains in the countr!
= Our farm board is bleeding I
= from a nice sum of money 10 tie
tn us not to sow so much wheat, CO
r ton and what not. Last fall the
said people should kill every tent
- COW because there were too man
Our experiment stations a.
taking their wad to tell US how
raise more, next comes the coul
- ty agent. He claims he earns
. he is getting because he is all
supposed to tell US to raise MOI
Understand this policy who ca
I admit it is above me. / know
am only an ignorant farmer al
can't understand the ways OF the
! super-brains, but l can umderstal
- that we are paying lot of mon
to have these people contradi
G each other, and that we are bun
~ Of fools to stand for it.
Last year the county agent W
telling us out here that we wor
have to farm from 600 10 8
acres in order to make a pro
and with a shrug of the should
and a wave of the hands, he sa
us farmers of Dagmar were
against it, since we didn't ia
that much. This year he tells
in the exchange list that
---- should be satisfied with big g
. den. Maybe this is the adv
IN that's worth $4,000 a year.
When he sent in his resignati
the county commissioners said II
le couldn't get along without his $
vices during the seed loan, so
l have been watching very close
expecting TO see some real serv
in behalf Of the farmers, but nj
Y not been able to find any, and
should be the time when his
vice is supposed to be very Va
RS able, or weren't the county c.
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