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Friday, December 27, 2019

Educated, Experienced County Agents Offer Free Information to Farmers, Dec. 26,1919

From the front page of the Hertford County Herald, Ahoskie, N.C., Friday, Dec. 26, 1919

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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