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CHRONOLOGICAL STATEMENT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF COUNTY AGRICULTURAL 



AGENT WORK. 



County. 



Alpena *. . . . <, 



Iron 



Kent I 



Kalamazoo 



Allegan < 



St. Clair / 



Branch I 



Saginaw 



Houghton 



Newaygo 



Gogebic 



Wexford 



St. Joseph 



Marquette 



Dickinson 



Lenawee 



Ontonagon 



Cheboygan .' . . 



Ottawa 



Mason 



Muskegon 



Van Buren 



Berrien 



Manistee 



Menominee 



Schoolcraft 



Missaukee 



Presque Isle 



Delta 



Wayne 



Chippewa 



Agricultural agent. 



H. G. Smith 



David Woodman. . . 

 R. G. Hoopingarner 



J. 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. M. Geismar 



H. B. Blandford 



J. F. Kadonsky. . . . 



J. F. Zimmer 



G. E. Piper 



J. M. Wendt 



L. R. Walker 



C. V. Ballard 



C. L. Coff een 



R. G. Carr 



C. H. Knopf 



D. L. Hagerman. . . 



R. V. Tanner 



R. L. Olds 



T. A. Farrand 



H. J. Lurkins 



Frank Sandhammer 



E. B. Hill 



B. G. Amos 



H. L. Barnum 



C. M. Kidman 



B. P. Pattison 



O. I. Gregg 



E. L. Kunze 



Date of 

 beginning. 



July 1, 1912 

 Mar. 20, 1916 

 Sept. 1, 1912 

 Sept. 16, 1912 

 Jan. 1, 1916 



Nov. 1, 1912 

 Mar. 1, 1913 

 April 20, 1916 

 Mar. 1, 1913 

 April 1 , 1915 



April 1, 1913 

 July 1, 1916 

 April 1, 1913 

 June 1,1913 

 June 10, 1913 



July 1, 1914 



Oct. 1, 1914 



Jan. 10, 1917 



Dec. 15, 1914 



July 1, 1915 



July 1, 1915 

 Aug. 23, 1915 

 Oct. 10, 1915 

 Dec. 1, 1915 

 Jan. 1, 1916 



Feb. 

 Mar. 

 Mar. 

 May 

 July 

 July 



16, 1916 

 1, 1916 

 1, 1916 

 1, 1916 

 1, 1916 

 1, 1916 



July 1, 1916 

 Mar. 6, 1917 

 April 20, 1917 

 May 15, 1917 

 June 1, 1917 

 June 11, 1917 



Addreijs. 



Alpena. 

 Crystal Falls. 

 Grand Rapide. 



Kalamazoo. 

 Allegan. 



Port Huron. 



Coldwater. 



Saginaw. 



Houghton. 



Fremont. 



Ironwood. 



[ Cadillac. 



Centreville. 

 Marquette. 



Iron Mountain. 

 Adrian. 

 Ontonagon. 

 Cheboygan. 

 Grand Haven. 



Scott'.'ille. 

 Muskegon. 

 Paw Paw. 

 Benton Harbor. 

 Manistee. 

 Menominee. 



Manistique. 

 Lake City. 

 Onaway. 

 Escanaoa. 

 Dearborn. 

 Sault Ste. Marie. 



Tlirongii appropriations by the Boards of Supervisors three more 

 counties, Genesee, Luce and Alger, have raised their share of the funds 

 for starting regular County Agent Avork and each will be in position to 

 employ an Agricultural Agent as soon as funds are available from the 

 College and the U. S. Department of Agriculture. In Tuscola county 

 forty men pledged fifty dollars each as a guarantee fund for starting the 

 work there. Mr. Alexander MacVittie was chosen as Agricultural Agent, 

 to begin work August 15, 1017. Farm Bureaus have been formed in Isa- 

 bella, Luce and Washtenaw counties and plans are being made for start- 

 ing County Agent work. There are other counties in which the County 

 Agent movement has been explained at farmers' meetings and in which 

 steps have been taken toward strengthening the sentiment for the work. 



FINANCING THE WORK. 



The plan for financing the Avork has been essentially the same as that 

 outlined in last year's report. In all of the counties except four, the 

 larger part of the county's share of the funds is now appropriated by the 

 Board of Supervisors. In three of these four counties the work was 

 started by membership fees and subscriptions, and in the other, one-half 



