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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



CHRONOLOGICAL STATEMENT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF COUNTY AGRICULTURAL 



AGENT WORK. 



County. 



Agricultural agent. 



Date of 

 beginning. 



Address. 



Alpena. 



Iron. 

 Kent. 



Kalamazoo . 

 Allegan. . . . 



St. Clair. 



Branch. . . , 



Saginaw. . , 

 Houghton . 

 Newaygo . , 



Gogebic . . . 

 Wexford . . . 

 St. Joseph. 

 Marquette. 

 Dickinson . 



Lenawee. . . 

 Ontonagon . 

 Cheboygan . 



Ottawa 



Mason . . . . , 



H. G. Smith 



David Woodman . . . 

 R. G. Hoopingarner. 



.1. H. Skinner 



H. G. Smith 



Jason Woodman. . . . 



C. B. Cook 



Alfred Bentall 



L. V. Crandall . . . 

 Clark L. Brody . . 



J. W. Chapin 



C. L. Nash 



Earl P. Robinson. 

 L. Mi-Geismar. . . 

 H. B". Blandford.. 



J. F. Kadonsky. 

 J. F. Zimmer. . . 

 J. M. Wendt... 

 L. R. Walker. . 

 C. V. Ballard. . 



C. L. Coffeen . . . 

 R. G. Carr 



C. H. Knopf 



D. L. Hagerman. 

 R. V. Tanner. . . 



Muskegon R. L. Olds 



Van Buren T. A. Farrand 



Berrien | H.J. Lurkins 



Manistee i Frank Sandhammer. 



Menominee | E. B. Hill 



Schoolcraft E.G. Amos 



July 1, 1912 

 March 20, 1916 



Sept. 



Sept. 



Jan. 



Nov. 



March 



April 



March 



April 



April 



July 



April 



June 



June 



July 

 Oct. 

 Dec. 

 July 

 July 



Aug. 

 Oct. 

 Dec. 

 Jan. 

 Feb. 



March 



March 



May 



July 



July 



July 



1, 1912 

 16, 1912 

 1, 1916 

 1, 1912 

 1, 1913 

 20, 1916 



1, 1913 

 1, 1915 

 1, 1913 

 1, 1916 

 1, 1913 

 1, 1913 

 10, 1913 



' 1, 1914 

 1, 1914 



1.5, 1914 

 1, 1915 

 1, 1915 



23, 1915 



10. 1915 

 1, 1915 

 1, 1916 



16. 1916 



1, 1916 

 1, 1916 

 1, 1916 

 1, 1916 

 1, 1916 

 1, 1916 





\ Alpena. 



Crystal Falls. 



• Grand Rapids. 

 Kalamazoo. 



• Allegan. 



I Port Huron. 



> Coldwater. 



Saginaw. 



Houghton. 



Fremont. 



Ironwood. 

 Cadillac. 

 Centerville. 

 Marquette. 

 Iron Mountain. 



Adrian. 

 Ontonagon. 

 Cheboygan. 

 Grand Haven. 

 Scottville. 



Muskegon. 

 Paw Paw. 

 Benton Harbor. 

 Manistee. 

 Menominee. 

 Manistique. 



FINANCING THE WORK, 



In addition to the counties that have organized and employed agents 

 there are at least twenty-five other counties that are in various degrees 

 of preparation for the work. In Presque Isle county the Board of Su- 

 pervisors has appropriated the county's share of the funds needed, but the 

 funds apportioned for county agent work by the College and the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture were exhausted when the twenty-sixth county 

 organized and secured an agent. However, any other county may be- 

 gin work at any time if in position to finance it until College and Fed- 

 eral funds are available. As a rule the State Leader or Assistant State 

 Leader visits counties desiring agents and explains the work in several 

 sections of the county. When there is enough interest on the part of the 

 farmers to warrant the starting of this kind of work, a county organi- 

 zation is formed and methods decided upon for raising the county's 

 share of the funds. 



In all of the counties except three the Boards of Supervisors have this 

 year appropriated nearly all of these funds. In one of these three coun- 

 ties the Supervisors are appropriating about half of the funds, and in 

 the other two the funds are raised by subscription. The appropriations 

 of the Supervisors for this year vary from about |1200 to |2000. The 

 financial tendency of the movement locally is strongly in the direction 

 of having the county governments raise the county's share of the funds 

 through appropriations by the Supervisors. This seems to be the equit- 



