Show WHAT A KEY BANKER DID FOR HIS COUNTY I 1 tho ho farmers of one county in tennessee ars are receiving additional annual income from new naw farm enterprises started sine since 1926 through the efforts of a key hoy banker bank er and the tha county agent according to estimates from the tennessee college of agriculture cul titre A key banker Is a part of tho the state bankers association voluntary field force cooperating with the american dankers bankers association in its nationwide plan for bringing about better agricultural conditions through combined b banker farmer effort new ejects started in this particular 1 county aro are tobacco irish potato and cabbage production for cash crops and dairying and poultry raising tor for livestock tho the key banker looking for something to do to better his community first attempted to procure a county agent but was unable to get the county to make the tha necessary appropriation so he and other leading citizens made up tha requisite funds through private subscription among farmers and bustness business men and an agen agent t was employed up until 1926 grain was tho the principal farm production in the county tho the banker recognized the disadvantages 0 of this it af fordt id d a low cash income and tho the land was too hilly and rough tor for profitable grain raising his idea was to introduce intro duco cash stops iopa that offered more return per acre and were better fitted to the county it was decided that the county should standardize on the green mountain potato and to market it la in carload lots through his hia bank he sponsored the tha buying of a car of certified seed potatoes ho lne ise bou bought ht some high quality tobacco seed and several hundred settings 0 of purebred eggs these supplies were distributed at cost through the tha banks to tho the farmers after considerably consider ablo effort a market for or dairy products was vas assured the farmers when in 1928 a national cheese company located a factory there A county appropriation was secured tor for county agent work in 1928 1929 in 1929 tho the cash crop program resulted in farmers selling worth of milk worth of tobacco and fifty five carloads of potatoes and cabbage mostly through cooperative sales this nassome was vas some step from the worth of ash crops la in 1928 1926 the county agent says and indications are that this amount will be ba doubled |