The Redwood gazette., 1936-05-14
.ateBo County
Agent, Resigns Post
PLANS TO TRAVEL FOR
EAST FIRM; WILSON
GETS POSITION

Nate II. Bovee, Redwood county
|agent for seven years, announced
ibis resignation Tuesday to accept
ia position with an eastern chemi-
cal concern. His official resigna-
tion was made last Thursday to
the county extension committee.
Adrian M. Wilson, present as
sistant county agent, has been Sc
lected as Mr.. Bovee's successor
and will assume the county
agents duties about the middle of
June when Mr.. Bovee plans to
leave.
Mr.. Bovee's new work will car
Try him throughout the United
States organizing programs of
weed control, the initiation of
which in Redwood county has won
for him national prominence in
that field. He win be associated
with the Chipman Chemical COM
pany of Boundbrook, New Jersey.
my services will be available
to every extension director in the
United States," Mr.. Bovee said in
explaining the nature of his work,
while / will also come in contact
with the federal department of
weed research, the federal land
banks and all groups interested in
weed control"
Although in most cases he will
be hundreds of miles away from
Redwood county, the county will
be constantly with him as he will
advertise it and Minnesota
through the explanation of the
method of weed eradication as
developed in the county and later
adopted as a state wide program.
1T will be my endeavor," he stat
ed, "to establish national unity in
weed control"
As originator of the plan, Mr..
Bovee has also served as assistant
director of weed control in the
state, administering the organiza-
tion of eradication set-ups in
counties throughout Minnesota.
On a speaking engagement last
fall in Washington, he established
a control program for that state,
while number of others have
adopted the Redwood county sys-
tenn and it has also been included
in the soil conservation program
which supplanted the outlawed
AAA.
The state weed program is to be
tenlarged in southern Minnesota
this year, Mr.. Bovee commented.
taking in Is to 20 counties addi-
tional to the half dozen in which it
is already in operation. Consider
able activity is being noted on the
federal weed control experiment
farm west of Lamberton and plans
are underway for an extensive
program on Creeping Jenny era
dication.
Mr.. Bovee became county agent
here in June 1929, succeeding
Lynn Sheldon. He was born and
reared at Washington, Iowa and
was graduated from Iowa State
college at Ames. He came here
from Montana where he taught
Smith-Hughes agriculture courses
lat Big Sandy and Circle.
AnS Cnipman company Is one
Of the largest manufacturers of
chemicals and has eight branches
throughout the United States and
Canada. Mr.. Bovee conferred re-
Gently in Chicago with the presi-
dent of the concern. As he will be
travelling about the country most
OF the time, Mr.. Bovee's family
plans to remain here.
The new county agent, Mr.. Will
SON, came to Redwood Falls as Mr..
Bovee's assistant last November.
He is also graduate of Iowa
State college and previous to his
arrival in Redwood county served
as county club agent of Mills and
Pottawattamie counties in Iowa
with headquarters at Council
Bluffs. In February he married
Miss Janice Flynn of Chicago.