Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-01-31
MOVEMENT NOW
UNDER WAY FOR
HIRING AGENT
Hiring of County Agent to
Get Consideration of
Commissioners

A countrywide movement to Sc
cure the services of a county
agent for Carbon was underway
this week under sponsorship of
the Clark Fork Valley Develop
ment association. The proposal
for the hiring Of the agent will
come up for consideration at the
next meeting Of the Carbon coun-
ty commissioners here on Febru-
airy 5.
In letters being sent to prac-
tically every farmer in the coun-
ty, the association points out the
many advantages which will ac-
crue from the hiring of such a
representative. L. r. Mondt, sec
rotary of the association, points
out to farmers the benefits other
are bringing to the counties in
which they are hired.
The numerous things that are
being done for the farmers bene-
fit by the government, he says, in
his letter to farmers, is only one
of many reasons why the services
of a county agent are required.
The corn and hog adjustment pro-
gram, he says, to be put in oper-
alton somewhat on the order of
the wheat allotment program, is
ready to be launched in all coun-
ties. The county agents are al
ready beginning campaigns. No
plans have been announced for
Carbon to date, which has from
$4,000 to $4,000 coming to hog
raisers.
Dairymen are to benefit from
adjustment payments to be start
ed in the spring and someone is
vitality needed to form a contact
with the government, otherwise
this county will have to wait UNI
til other counties are taken care
of. A beef adjustment program is
advocated, and a county agent to
help organize stockmen would
prove of great benefit in hasten
ing the set-up of the program in
this county.
Faced by what the state ento-
mologist and others say to be n
of the worst grasshopper plaques
in the history of the state this
spring, farmers will need the SER
vices of some man to set the pro-
per organization in this county to
fight the pests, with aid of the
government.
Organization of All clubs for
boys and girls in this county
would be another benefit derived
from the services of a county
agent. These clubs are nation
wide and are yielding vast bene-
fits, both present and future, to
communities in which they are
operating. One such club at Bel
fry is the only organization of its
kind in this county at the present
time. Assistance in grading and
marketing seeds, poultry, fruit,
vegetables and other products of
trs farm would come from a
county agent.
The services of the agent would
cost Carbon county a sum of 5000
to help defray the cost of clerical
and office expense of the agent.
One thousand eight hundred dol
lars will be contributed by the
state toward the salary of the
agent, and $500 will be contrib
uted by the county wheat control
association. The states payment,
it is pointed out, is paid every
year by taxpayers and the money
is now going for development
work in other counties because of
the lack of an agent in Carbon.
Slips mailed with the letters
urge farmers to make their wishes
known to the county commission
ers and calls for either a personal
appearance before the board on
February 5 or a letter expressing
his desires on the matter, and
mailed to the board in time for
the meeting.
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