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Show COUNTY AGENTS INCREASED. Extension Workers in Agriculture and Home Economics to be Placed in More Agricultural Counties. Washington. Plans have been made to expand immediately the co-operative extension work of the United States Department of Agriculture and the state agricultural colleges, by a large increase in the number of county coun-ty agricultural agents and home demonstration dem-onstration agents. Women agents will be placed for the first time in the larger towns and cities. More or less technical training in agriculture and home economics will be required in this service. The appointments are to be made on the recommendation of the director of extension work at the state college. Approximately 1400 men agents and 500 women ageuts are at puesent employed. The plans formulated formu-lated contemplate the extension of the men county agent work to all the rural counties of the Union in which there is a need for the work and the placing ot an additional agent in some of the larger counties already organized. They also contemplate a considerable increase in the number of women agents engaged in extension activities. The number to be employed": will depend de-pend upon the number of trained men and women available. Proved ability in leadership as well as technical training train-ing will be required. The use of city agents in the conduct con-duct of the extension work of the department de-partment is a new departure made desirable de-sirable by the? importance attached in the present food crisis of the world to the conservation and efficient utilization utiliza-tion of foods. The city demonstration work will be carried on by women agents who will work in co-operation with the existing organizations of women. The aim of the extension work is to carry directly to as many people as possible information in regard to proved methods of agricultural production pro-duction and home economies. Economy in the purchase and use of food, and methods of food conservation by canning, can-ning, drying, etc., will be emphasized. The men county agents are concerned chiefly with agricultural production while the women are employed in demonstration dem-onstration work in home economics. With funds furnished in the food production bill the States Relations Service also will seek greatly to enlarge en-large the enrollment of young people in the boys' and girls' clubs which are devoted to increasing agricultural production pro-duction and conserving the food supply sup-ply through canning, drying, and other means. The service also will work out problems prob-lems in the efficient utilization of various var-ious foods and will aid institutions devoted de-voted to agricultural education to plan and conduct courses of instruction especially es-pecially suited to the present emergency. |