| Show COUNTY AGENTS TEACH MANY I I I Farmers In Southern States Given In Instruction Instruction Instruction In- In i in Growing of Crops and Other Problems Prepared by the tho United States Stales Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment of ot Agriculture k The war emergency brought a u great grent Increase In the number of ot farmers farm women and boys and girls In Instructed Instructed Instructed In- In by county agents In problems of ot greater food production and con con- er According to reports to the office of extension work worl South of the states states' relations service farmers In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Southern states were reached durIn during dur dur- In fu ing 1917 1017 with definite demonstration In Inthe Inthe Inthe the growing of crops raising and feeding feeding feed feed- ing of live stock marketing and other problems The number of acres covered covered covered cov cov- ered b by the crop demonstrations alone I In 1917 1017 was In addition to I the these e a n conservative estimate of the number of ot farms directly reached b by bythe bythe the county countr agents In 1917 1017 Is The Tune figures represent about CO GO per percent percent i cent of all farms In the South I Agents are giving advice and help helpIn In one way or another to nearly every everyone everyone one with whom they come In contact and the direct and Indirect Influence of the count county agents agents' work and the proportion of the farmers reached is thou thought ht to be much higher than thun the tho figures figures figures fig fig- ures given glen |
