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stration agent, is still there, and he says that where 

 the root-aphids used to kill the cotton nearly every 

 spring, they do no damage now. Whenever some 

 one says that the agent is too young, Joe and the 

 other good farmers always reply, "He is doing more 

 good helping the farmers of this county than any- 

 body else. It was he who got the entomologist to 

 come and tell us about the root-aphid, and we now 

 know how to humbug this pest." 



Although this happened many years ago the old 

 bars are still there, and whenever Joe passes through 

 them going or coming from the field he recalls with 

 a smile that evening when he stood there so angry 

 because he did not know what was killing his cotton. 



