Increasing farm efficiency
Abstract
"The following pages record, largely in narrative form, the activities of the Agricultural Extension Service during the year beginning December 1, 1927 and ending November 30, 1928, together with the practical measurable results accomplished by those activities. This announcement, therefore, constitutes the annual report of the Agricultural Extension Service. It has been compiled mainly by the College of Agriculture editors, A. A. Jeffrey and Louis Grinstead, from the detailed annual reports of extension projects submitted by the various project leaders. The project reports are largely made up from the annual reports of county and district agents. The compilers of this report have consciously avoided the appearance of crediting results to individual members or groups of the extension staff. It is only in rare cases that extension results come as a result of individual activity. The county agent, the 4-H club worker and the subject-matter specialist cooperate closely. Each project group cooperates with every other project group. The clerical and stenographic staff at the College and in all the county offices make adistinct and positive contribution to the cause. Finally, as the report itself will show, there is a great body of volunteer local leaders in the State without whose cooperation and active participation this extension report would be a decidedly meager one. Probably the greatest single responsibility of the Agricultural Extension Service is to locate and interest rural local leadership in the all-round betterment of the farm, the farm home and the farm community. The Agricultural Extension Service of the Missouri College of Agriculture continues to stress efficiency in the two major aspects of agriculture, namely, making a living from the farm and living a life on the farm. “Making two blades of grass grow where one grew before” as an ultimate agricultural goal went in to the discard before the present Agricultural Extension Service came into being and has remained there ever since. The goal of the Missouri College of Agriculture for many years—even decades—has been to make one acre of land produce twice the satisfactions that two acres produce before. The goal is a practical one. It is attainable today just as it was fifteen years ago when President Woodrow Wilson, on May 8, 1914, signed the Smith-Lever Act providing a nation-wide system of extension work in agriculture and home economics by cooperation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the various agricultural colleges. The following pages of this “Project Announcement” tell the story of another year’s efforts to increase the efficiency of the Missouri farm as a business unit and of the Missouri home as the wise beneficiary of the farm dividends, small as they have been in most instances."--Page 3 and 4.
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