CHAPTEB VI 

 THE COUNTY AGENT'S JOB AND OPPORTUNITY 



To few persons comes a bigger job and a larger opportu- 

 nity for service than comes to the county agent who is alive 

 to them. But as in other fields of service, much depends 

 upon the use that is made of the opportunity. The county 

 agent's job is usually what he makes it. It may be merely 

 one of great activity in unessential details and doing things 

 for farmers which they should do for themselves. Or, it 

 may be the organizing of the agriculture of a county, the 

 better training of its leadership and giving its citizenship 

 a new vision of their responsibilities, obligations and op- 

 portunities. 



THE SIZE OF THE JOB 



If the county agent is to be to agriculture what the 

 teacher is to the school and the pastor is to the church, 

 then his job is fairly well outlined. He is to teach, to 

 inform, to lead and to organize the agricultural interests 

 of his county to the common end of ll better farming, bet- 

 ter business, better living. " He is essentially concerned 

 with the permanent welfare of the people of the county 

 in which he works. He is expected to help to make its 

 farming more profitable to the end that living in the homes 

 of its communities may be more satisfying, and thus the 

 whole public welfare served. 



The county agent will find that his constituency will vary 

 all the way from about a thousand persons living on two 

 or three hundred farms to fifty or one hundred thousand 



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