Farmers Want Advice
That Can Only Come From Those Who Know
Preparatory to closing his work in eastern North Carolina
Mr. N.B. Stevens, District Agent of the Agricultural Extension Service, has
collected a sample list of the questions asked by the county agents by farmers
during one week’s time. His compilation shows that during this week 211
different inquiries were made. Of this number, there are some questions which
would stagger the best informed men of the country. Some of them have an
important relation to every day farming operations and some bear on future
plans for the farmer. As a whole the questions show that the farmer of today a
much more progressive individual than the farmers of the past. They indicate
also that they are thinking about improved agriculture, and better marketing
facilities, and, that in planning to improve conditions on his farm, he needs
the suggestions and help of a trained agricultural man who is constantly in
touch with the latest developments and findings of the different stations of
the country.
Many farmers do not know just what constitutes a county
agent. In appointing a man, the Agricultural Extension Service tries to get the
best and most suitable person available, whether in North Carolina or in some
other state. This man must have scientific and practical training in
agriculture, which means that all new appointments now are graduates of an
agricultural college, and have considerable farming experience as well as the
natural qualities of initiative and leadership.
The services of this man are free to the farmers. The
Extension Service especially desires that he be used as much as possible to aid
in progressive farming. The same thing applies to the women agents in their
relation to the efforts in the isolated rural homes of the State.
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