Better farming in Missouri
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"The function of the Agricultural Extension Service is to give information in agriculture and home economics to farm people on their own farms and in their own farm homes. The ultimate measure of successful teaching in the extension field is the widespread adoption of scientifically sound farm and household practices, as regards making a living on the one hand and living a life on the other. The following pages record the activities and results of a year’s work by the staff of the Agricultural Extension Service. The body of agricultural and home economics knowledge which forms the basis of extension instruction is derived chiefly from the research results of the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station. Extension workers do, however, use considerable information derived from the research activities of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and of other states, as well as the practical experiences of farm people on their own farms and in their own homes. Most of the results recorded in the following pages are simply the summaries of demonstrations carried on as a means of getting information before groups of farm people. These demonstrations are concerned with relatively simple farm or home practices, whose efficiency has been thoroughly proven. Yet, these practices are not in common use, and the function of the Agricultural Extension Service is to introduce these new practices to the masses of farm people, so that agriculture generally may benefit by them. No attempt is made in this report to separate the activities of one group of extension workers from those of another group. County and district agents, subject-matter specialists, supervisors, administrators, as well as the clerical staff—county and state—all function as a unit in securing whatever results have been accomplished. There is no point at which the work of one can be separated from that of the other. The county agent, whether agricultural or home economics, is the immediate and principal point of contact through which the entire extension service staff functions in reaching farm people. As will be noted later, however, Missouri still has a number of counties without county agents, and these counties, of course, are served directly by state workers. The amount of educational service such counties receive is, of course, necessarily more or less limited as compared with counties having full-time agents. Some work is done, however, in every one of the one hundred fourteen counties in Missouri."--Page 3.
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