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The Extension SpecinlistK in Fanii Crops and members of the Crops 

 Departmient who are co-opera ting with tlieni, liij^lily api)ret'iate the help 

 and co-operation of the members of the Extension Division and of the 

 Connty Agricultural Agents. 



REPOKT OF EXTENSION WORK IN FARM MANAGEMENT. 



BY H. B. KILLOUGH. 



Farm management demonstration work for tlie ])ast year has been di- 

 rected along three i>rinc-ipal lines: Farm accounting, farm creilits, price 

 movements as they affect agriculture. 



Farm Accounting : 



Twelve hundred and twenty-five farm account books have been sold to 

 farmers since July 1, 11)21. Indiscriminate sale of books to farmers who 

 were unlikely to use them has been avoided in so far as possible. 



Farm taccounting courses have been introduced into ten Smith-Hughes 

 Schools. The method of having farm boys and girls use for laboratory 

 exercises accounts which they keep on their own. home farms, is growing 

 in ])opularity. 



Follow-up work in farm accounting has been couducted through the mail 

 and by personal visits. 



Farm Credits: 



Farmers, connty agricultural rtgents and bankers have been furnished 

 witli facts to show farm credit needs and returns from the several classes 

 of farm investments and expenditures. The facts were obtained from 

 cost accounting routes conducted by the Experiment Station from farm 

 records kept l)y fanners in co-operation with the College and from farm 

 management surveys. A survey was made in connection with farm ac- 

 counting schools covering approximately 465 farms in fifteen counties. 



Price Movements as theij affect agriculture: 



During the fall and winter months a regular service dealing with price 

 trends and factors which influence price movements was sent to all connty 

 agricultural agents. This service seemed to meet with general approval. 

 One hundred and sixteen applications from farmers who wish to be placed 

 on the Washington mailing list for Crop and Market Reports have gone 

 through this office. , 



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Puhlicity: 



Ten general news articles and eight stories for farm papers of the State 

 have been published besides publicity material sent to the various counties 

 for farm bureau bulletins and in addition to exhibits prepared for the 

 State Fair, Annual meeting of the State Grange, Farmers' Day and Fai*m- 

 ers' Short Course at the College. 



