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Show WAR WORK BY COUNTY AGENTS Not Only Laboring for Department of Agriculture, but Also Aiding Food Administration. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) The county agents and home-demonstration workers employed in the United Unit-ed States are not only Instructing farmers and farm women in food production pro-duction and conservation, but are assisting as-sisting in other essential war work. They are not only working for the department de-partment of agriculture but are assisting assist-ing the food administration, the treasury treas-ury department, the war department, the navy department, the department of justice, audi he department of labor. They have taken part, iu addition to their regular activities, in such work as food surveys, seed surveys, seed distribution, obtaining credit for farmers, farm-ers, selling Liberty bonds, eradication of live stock diseases, surveys of insect pests and campaigns for their destruction, destruc-tion, marketing farm products, preferential prefer-ential or priority shipments by rail of farm products and all farm supplies, and dissemination of information given giv-en out by the war department, the council of national defense, and tho committee on public Information regarding re-garding the war, and other matters affecting af-fecting the national policy under war conditions. |