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cliicled various niixtiires of seetls witli a view of securing the best 

 varieties for these purposes. 



The county committees are also utilized by the department in its 

 efforts to improve the live stock of the county, in its distribution 

 of prizes, in the encouragement of agricultural fairs, in securing the 

 estal>lishment and proper conducting of creameries, and in all of its 

 other operations in the interests of agriculture in the several counties. 



The county connnittee, therefore, is the executive of the entire 

 system, without which no part of the work could possibly be effec- 

 tive. The moving force in the county committee is its secretary — 

 a live, capable, active, and discreet secretary in every county is a 

 necessity ; without this all of the machinery of the system like that 

 of a locomotiA^e without an engineer will lie idle and useless, 

 eventually to become fit only for the rubbish heap. On the other 

 hand, Avith an effectiAe secretary in every county the work of agri- 

 cultural education and rural development will be rapidly and suc- 

 cessfully advanced. 



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