86 THE COUNTY AGENT'S SERVICES 



office and field organization, for and to introduce repre- 

 sentatives of farmers' organizations, to explain and or- 

 ganize a movement locally. 



On the other hand, cooperation with marketing organi- 

 zations is desirable from the farm bureau and county agent 

 educational and improvement standpoint, because such co- 

 operative properly organized: 



(1) Furnishes needed machinery for the adjustment of 

 those difficulties and situations which are vital to profitable 

 farming, but which cannot be handled by publicly sup- 

 ported educational institutions. 



(2) Gives farmers suitable local organizations which 

 may be federated into regionals to promote cooperative 

 selling and collective bargaining. 



(3) By effecting savings helps to increase the profits 

 from farming and thus to put farming on a better busi- 

 ness basis. 



(4) Has the general effect of bettering rural economic 

 and living conditions. 



Relations on this basis may mean assistance by the 

 county agent in securing conferences with county or 

 regional officers, working out of county-wide educational 

 plans, advising as to the local leadership, conditions and 

 situations, calling of meetings for the purpose of discuss- 

 ing the cooperative organization and its purposes, speak- 

 ing at meetings on the principles and general desirability 

 of good organization. On the part of the farm bureau 

 it may involve extending the facilities of the local offices 

 to cooperative organizers for the purpose of holding com- 

 mittee meetings, conducting correspondence, etc. 



The functions which are peculiarly those of the coopera- 

 tive, in which the county agents should never engage and 

 for which the cooperative should itself assume complete 

 responsibility are : 



