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As a partner with state and federal government, on the firing 

 line, it will cooperate with those agencies as minute men in 

 emergency matters pertaining to agriculture, such as foot and 

 mouth disease, suppression of grasshopper plagues, control of plant 

 diseases, etc. 



And so we might go on. The possibilities of the farm bureau 

 in extension work are almost limitless. From the state stand- 

 point it is a local organization that state and federal government 

 can cooperate with in all their agricultural extension work. In 

 the big extension program the farm bureau is not going to replace 

 any of the extension work now being done by these institutions, 

 but it is going to localize and vitalize and give point to all our 

 extension work ; and that, it seems to me, is the chief place of the 



farm bureau in extension work, 

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