12 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Association; Elbert S. Brigham, of Vermont, dairyman and com- 

 missioner of agriculture; W. L. Brown, of Kansas, wheat grower 

 and member of the State board of agriculture; David R. Coker, of 

 South Carolina, chairman of the State council of defense, successful 

 cotton farmer, and producer of improved types of cotton; W. R. 

 Dodson, of Louisiana, farmer and dean of the Louisiana College of 

 Agriculture ; Wesley G. Gordon, of Tennessee, demonstrator of better 

 farming and influential in promoting the introduction of crimson 

 clover and other legumes in his State; John Grattan, of Colorado, 

 agricultural editor, member of the Grange and Farmers' Union, and 

 cattle feeder ; J. N. Hagan, of North Dakota, general farmer planting 

 spring wheat on a large scale and commissioner of agriculture and 

 labor; W. W. Harrah, of Oregon, wheat grower, director of the 

 Farmers' Union Grain Agency of Pendleton, and member of the 

 Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union ; C. W. Hunt, of Iowa, 

 general farmer and large corn planter and live-stock producer ; H, W. 

 Jeffers, of New Jersey, dairyman, president of the Walker-Gordon 

 Laboratory Co., and member of the State board of agriculture ; Isaac 

 Lincoln, of South Dakota, banker and successful grower on a large 

 scale of special varieties of seed grains; David M. Massie, of Ohio, 

 general farmer and successful business man, interested particularly 

 in farm management; William F. Pratt, of New York, general 

 farmer, agricultural representative on the board of trustees of Cor- 

 nell University, and member of the State Farm and Markets Council ; 

 George C. Roeding, of California, fruit grower, nurseryman, and 

 irrigation farmer, and president of the State agricultural society; 

 Marion Sansom, of Texas, cattleman, live-stock merchant, and di- 

 rector of the Federal reserve bank at Dallas; and C. J. Tyson, of 

 Pennsylvania, general farmer and fruit grower and former president 

 of the Pennsylvania State Horticultural Association. 



COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE. 



The emergency through which the Nation has passed only served 

 to emphasize the supreme importance of the Cooperative Agri- 

 cultural Extension Service. It has become increasingly clear that no 

 more important piece of educational extension machinery has ever 

 been created. It has been amply demonstrated that the most effective 

 means of getting information to the farmers and their families and 

 of securing the application of the best scientific and practical proc- 



