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Mr. Calwell: We have sixty-seven counties and have but nine 

 county agents in sixty-seven counties. 



Mr. McDowell: Yes. 



Mrs. Smith: Our association fought a bitter fight last winter to get 

 the legislature to take notice of this situation. The bankers also did 

 something for the situation, and they are going to do a great deal more in 

 this matter, I am quite sure, in the future, so it is up to the farmers to 

 demand in this state, as they did in New York, that an appropriation shall 

 be made. It is not the legislature that is at fault; it is the farmers. The 

 legislature will do what you want it to do; it will not do anything else. 

 If you don't care, the legislature does not care. It is up to us farmers. 

 We need the things for our children and it must be done in this state. There 

 is nothing more critical. 



We are now going to call upon Mr. Benson. We have been stealing 

 his time right along, and we are going to stay a little later to give him a 

 chance to show his slides. 



