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extension work is tlie development of the county agent scheme. In the 

 majority of the 3,000 counties of the States county agents have been 

 installed. These are highly qualified agriculturists. Their offices, 

 located at the county seat, acts as a clearing house for the dissemination 

 of agricultural information among the farming community. The main 

 problem of the county agent is to reach and give service to the largest 

 possible number of persons in his county, and to bring about the greatest 

 possible increase in agricultural efficiency. The less progressive a 

 farmer is the less he troubles to find out what his neighbours are doing. 

 Consequently the great aim in any scheme of extension work is to reach 

 out and get in touch with those who secure but average to poor yields of 

 crops, and who keep average to, inferior animals, for these are the 

 sections of the farming community who bear down the average yields 



Berkshire Boar, ' ' Epochal. ' ' 

 Four of Epochal's progeny were sold for 10,000 dollars each. A world's record. 



of the State. The big work of the county agent is to help the com- 

 munity to discover itself, to encourage the many to follow the example 

 of the few, and to introduce new methods, new crops, and new industries. 



Agricultural education was a vital necessity for the forward develop- 

 ment of our agriculture. States which were comparable with Victoria 

 in size, population, climate, rainfall, and resources were spending five 

 to ten times as much as we were in agricultural education. 



Thus, of all States in the Union, Kansas, perhaps, more closely 

 resembled Victoria in stage of development and resources. Kansas and 

 Victoria were the same size, had the same population and rainfall. 

 N^orth-western Kansas had a rainfall of 8 to 10 inches ; Eastern Kansas 

 a rainfall of 40 inches. Yet Kansas produced in 1915 180,000,000 

 bushels of wheat, 170,000,000 bushels of maize, 43,000,000 bushels of 

 oats, 4,000,000 tons of hay, and maintained 3,000,000 pigs and 



