Show COUNTY AGENT WORK GAINS IN population WHEREVER IT HAS BEEN INSTALLED washington jan 22 K county agent work continues to advance in the 33 northern and western states at the average rate it has maintained during the past 11 years silice its beginning n z eye every ry county in these states will have a resident agent with in the next three years of the 1616 1611 agricultural apri cultural counties in these states 1239 now have county agents these counties contain 77 per cent of the total number of farms in the 33 states that the county agent has come to stay and has become identified as a permanent e ra manent part of the agricultural fife life of the county is evidenced by the public support given the county agent movement since the war prior to the war about new counties each 5 3 ear employed county agents dur ing the war in order to stimulate production of agricultural products a very large appropriation was made providing for the employment of county agents in counties which did not have them under this provision over 44 county agents were added to the list during the single year of 1918 the ile conclusion of the war and the withdrawal of more than a million collars dollars of federal support naturally justified the belief that county agent work would show an appreciable de cr ease to the surprise of everyone concerned the contrary wa was true the tie county agent hai his so proved bis his v to the agricultural srI cultural intersects inter sets of the communities that these communities rallied to the support of the work to such a degree that instead of show ing ling a I 1 loss 0 as the first year after the war showed ed an increase of 29 in the num ber her of county agents employed |