Show WHAT T A KEY BANKER DID FOR HIS COUNTY The he farmers of ot one county In Tennessee Ten Ten- are receiving additional additional additional addi addi- annual in income como from new farm enterprises started since 1926 through the efforts of a key banker and the county agent according to estimates from Crom the Tennessee College of Agri Agri- culture A key banker Is a part of the slate bankers' bankers association voluntary field force cooperating with the American Ameri Ameri- can Bankers Association in Its nationwide nationwide nation nation- wide wido plan for bringing about better agricultural conditions through combined combined com corn farmer banker-farmer effort New projects projects pro pro- i started in this particular county and cabbage are tobacco Irish potato I production for cash crops and dairying dairying dairying dairy dairy- ing and poultry raising for livestock Tho The key hey banker looking for something somethIng some- some thIng thins to do to better his community first attempted to procure a county agent but butas was as unable to get the tho county to make the tho necessary appropriation so ho he and other leading citizens made madeI I u up P the requisite funds through private subscription among farmers and busness business business busi bus ness men and an agent was employed Up until 1926 grain was the tho principal principal principal prin prin- cipal farm production in the county The banker recognized tho the disadvantages dIsadvantages ages of this It afforded a low cash euh income and tho the l land nd was too hilly hUly and aDd rough for profitable grain raisin HU His Idea was to introduce cash crops that offered more return per acre and were better fitted to tho the county It was decided decided decided de de- that tho the county should standardize standardize stand stand- on the Green Mountain potato and anel to market It In carload lots lota Through his bank he sponsored the to ft f car nT 1 HAnA tilted seed lAM buying nU of OL a U a car tui o JL potatoes Ho likewise bought some somo high quality tobacco seed and several hundred settings of purebred eggs These supplies were wore distributed at cost coat through the banks to tho the farmers After Arter considerable effort a market for dairy products was assured the tho farmers when In 1928 a national cheese company located a no factory there A county appropriation was secured for county agent work in 1928 In 1929 the cash ash crop program resulted resulted re re- suited in farmers selling worth of milk worth of tobacco and five fifty carloads of potatoes and cabbage cab bago bage mostly through cooperative sales This was some step from the worth orth of cash crops In 1926 the county agent says and indications are that this amount will bo be doubled |