Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-11 | Page 9 | County Agent will Aid Idaho Farmers

COUNTY AGENT WILL AID IDAHO FARMERS Special to The Tribune. POCATELLO. Idaho, Jan. 10, A movement move-ment is now under way to establish a county agent in Bannock county. The matter was presented Tuesday to the newly installed board of county commissioners commis-sioners by Professor J. Wylie Sessions of the department of agriculture of the Idaho Technical Institute, and by R. W. Jiochbaum of Eoise. who Is in charge of the county agent division of the extension exten-sion department of the University of Idaho. It was pointed out that decisive measures meas-ures must be taken this year to protect the farmers from such pests as the alfalfa weevil and grasshoppers. A county agent would give the farmers the benefit of expert advice on combating these and other rural problems and would help them to organize for mutual aid along many j lines. The cost of maintaining this office is estimated at S3000 a year, of which amount the state university and the federal fed-eral government would pay one-third. Idaho now has only seven county- agents, but it is thought that the number will ' soon be increased by one by the appointment appoint-ment of an agent for Bannock county. Tiie state of Georgia alone has 102 county coun-ty agents as compared with 107 In ten western states combined.