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placed on farms; reports to the County Agent indicate that over 50% 

 of this help was very satisfactory. 



CONFERENCES. 



During the year five conferences were held for planning the work. 

 Two of these were held at the College and three in the Upper Peninsula. 

 Reference was made at the beginning of this report to the work of the 

 Annual Conference at the College, November 20-24. One of the confer- 

 ences of the Upper Peninsula was given to all the projects of that sec- 

 tion, the other two considered special problems; one relating chiefly to 

 live stock and the other to methods of forming and conducting national 

 Farm Loan Associations. 



FIELD WORK OF ASSISTANT STATE LEADERS AND STATE LEADER. 



Th field work of the State Leader and the Assistant State Leaders 

 has been largely as follows : 



a. Explanation of County Agricultural Agent work in counties not 

 having agents and assisting in organizing such counties for Farm Bureau 

 work and in selecting agents. 



b. Helping in the further development of Farm Bureau organiza- 

 tions in counties having agents. 



c. Conferences with County Agents and Farm Bureau officers in re- 

 gard to state, county and community projects and methods of putting 

 these into effect. 



d. Attending meetings in the counties to assist in forwarding some 

 particular project. 



e. Studying the methods and results of the work in the different 

 counties for the purpose of giving to new counties the benefits of ex- 

 perience in the different phases of County Agent work. 



Mr. J. W. Weston was appointed Assistant State Leader for the Up- 

 per Peninsula, November 1, 1016. Mr. Weston has made 31 visits to 

 counties having agents and 31 visits to counties without agents. He 

 helped to conduct 73 meetings with a total attendance of 3365. 



Mr. C. B. Cook, Assistant State Leader, has made 67 visits to coun- 

 ties having agents and 43 to counties without agents. In doing this 

 work he has addressed 157 meetings with a total attendance of 14,470. 



In field work the State Leader has made 66 visits to counties having 

 agents and 40 visits to those without agents. In this work he has ad- 

 dressed 96 meetings with a total attendance of 12,814. 



In closing this report the State Leader wishes to call special atten- 

 tion to the fact that the County Agricultural Agent movement is es- 

 sentially a cooperative one. Its success depends entirely upon the de- 

 gree of concerted action that can be attained on the part of the people 

 of the county, and of the representatives of the Agricultural College and 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture. The County Agricul- 

 tural Agent's functions are many but he is primarily an organizer and 

 a coordinator of the activities of those concerned with the agricultural 

 development of his county. The results outlined in this report have 

 been achieved because many men, women, boys and girls have worked 

 toward the common end of making agriculture more profitable and 

 country life more satisfying and attractive. It would be a pleasure to 



