Show WHAT A KEY BANKER DID FOR HIS COUNTY The farmers of 01 one county in Tennessee Tennessee Ten- Ten are receiving additional add addi- annual Income in ome from new farm enterprises started since 1926 through the efforts of oC a key banker and the county agent according to estimates from the Tennessee College of 01 Agri AgrI- AgrIculture Agriculture culture A key banker is a part of oC the state bankers association voluntary field force orco cooperating with the Amerl Ameni can Bankers Association in its nation nation- nation vide plan tor for bringing about better agricultural conditions through corn com banker farmer effort New pro pro- projects protects pro started in this particular county are tobacco Irish potato and cabbage production for cash crops and dairy dairy- dairying dairying ing and poultry raising for tor The key banker looking for some some- something something something thing to do to better his community first attempted to procure procuro a county agent but was unable to get the county to make the necessary appropriation so he and other leading citizens made up the tho requisite funds through private subscrIption among farmers and bus ness DOSS men and an agent was employed Up until 1926 grain was the prin prin- principal principal cipal farm production in the county The banker recognized zed the disadvantages disadvantages disadvantages ages of oC this It afforded a low cash Income and the land was too hilly and rough tor for a grain raising HIs Idea was to Introduce introduce cash crops that offered more return per acre and were better fitted to the county It was waa de- de decIded decided de decided that the county should stand stand- standardize standardize standardize on the Green Mountain potato and to market it in a carload lots Through his bank he sponsored the buying ot of a car ot of certified seed potatoes He likewise bought some high quality tobacco seed and several hundred settings of oC purebred eggs These supplies were distributed at cost through the b inks to the tanners farmers After considerable effort a market marlet for tor dairy products was assured the farmers when in 1928 1926 a l cheese company located a factory there A county appropriation was WM secured for county agent work in 1923 In 1929 1919 the cash crop program re- re ro- ro re resulted Bulted in la farmers selling 45 15 worth ot of milk worth ot or tobacco and fifty five carloads ot of potatoes and cab cabbage cabbage cabbage bage mostly through h cooperative sales This was somo some step from the Ule worth orth of cash crops In 1926 the county agent says and Indications are that this amount will be doubled |