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grown in 1921 to cover approximately six hundred and 

 ninety-nine counties, about two-thirds of which are in the 

 South. 



Boys' and girls' club agents numbered a little less than 

 two hundred on December 1, 1921, but much of this work 

 is carried on by the adult men and women agents. 



Agents in all three groups were hastily appointed during 

 the war period as an emergency measure and without the 

 necessary preparation in advance or sufficient local interest 

 and support, with the result that the work was abandoned 

 in several hundred counties, so that there are now fewer 

 agents than in 1918, when the high point, with twenty -four 

 hundred and thirty-five counties with agricultural agents 

 alone, was reached. The movement, having suffered this 

 war reaction, is now recovering and will undoubtedly ulti- 

 mately cover all the agricultural counties. 



