Show county agents needs organized backing washington D C nov 1 that the active cooperation advice and assistance of farmers themselves is necessary to the success of county agent work 13 one of the most important lessons impressed upon the officials of the united states department of agriculture after SIK years of exi evence with this work in the northern and western states the best means 0 securing this local sup i port has proved to be the establishment of a county organization usually known as a farm bureau to enable the county agent and local farmers to organize and conduct a farm bureau most effectively the department has just published detailed suggestions as to the methods of procedure in a guide known as handbook on farm bureau organization for county agricultural agents the plan represents the fruit of experience in this field thus far it is said it can be adapted readily to the lanng conditions of different counties it may be established in counties having inefficient organizations in counties contemplating the employment of an agent and in places where the agent is now unsupported by local county organization the chief functions of a farm bureau as outlined in the handbook are 1 to coordinate the efforts of existing local agricultural forces either organized or unorganized and to organize new lines of effort it does not supplant any existing organizations or compete with them but establishes a clearing aliouse through which all may increase their efficiency without in any way surrendering their individuality 2 to bring to the agents the council and cooperation of the best farmers in the county in planning and executing an agricultural improvement pro program 8 to furnish the necessary local machinery for easily and quickly every community in the county with information of value to that community or to the county as a whole 4 to en self help through developing and exercising leadership in the rural affairs of each community 5 to reveal to all the people of the county the agricultural possibility tie of the county and how they may be realized |