HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



Continued from page 3. column '.i 

 This extension work will deal not only 

 with agiicultural production but also 

 with economic problems, including mar- 

 keting and cooperative associations and 

 with the interest of the farm home and 

 the rural community. The extension 

 service, including the county agent, is as 

 much interested in the marketing, dis- 

 tribution and utilization and help in all 

 of the.se lines. 



The Extension in each State is under 

 the administrative management of an 

 Extension Director, who is the joint rep- 

 resentative of the College and the De- 

 partment. Under the director are the 

 State agents or leaders, the extension 

 specialists and the county agricultural 

 agents, home demonstration agents and 

 club agents or leaders. The extension 

 directors are authorized to enter into 

 cooperation agreements with county offi- 

 cials and farm bureaus or like oiganiza- 

 tions with reference to financial .-support 

 for the maintenance of extension work in 

 the county and the plans, for the use of 

 the cooperative funds in the extension 

 work within the county. 



Basis of Co-operation 



The general basis of cooperation be- 

 tween the county farm bureau and the 

 Extension Service will be as follows : 



The County Agricultural Agents, Home 

 Demonstration Agents and Club Agents 

 cooperatively employed will be members 

 of the extension service of the State 

 Agricultural College and under the ad- 

 ministrative direction of the Extension 

 Director, and will carry on such lines of 

 work as may be mutually agreed upon by 

 representatives of the agricultural college 

 and the farm bureaus or other like or- 

 ganizations. 



Since the.se county extension agents 

 are part of a public service as defined in 

 Smith-Lever Act, and receive some part 

 of their salary from public funds, they 

 are to perform service for the benefit of 

 all the farming people of the county 

 whether members of the farm bureaus or 

 not, and are to confine their activities to 

 such as are appropriate for public offi- 

 cials to perform under the terms of the 

 Smith-Lever Act. The county agents 

 will aid the farming people in a broad 

 way with reference to problems of pro- 

 duction, marketing and formation of 

 farm bureaus and other cosperative or- 

 ganizations but will not themselves or- 

 ganize farm bureaus or similar organiza- 

 tions, conduct member.ship campaigns, 

 solicit memberships, receive dues, handle 

 farm bureau funds, edit and manage the 

 Farm Bureau Publication, engage in 

 commercial activities or take part in 

 other farm bureau activities which are 

 outside their duties as extension agents. 



The county agents and other extension 

 agents will cooperate with the Farm 

 Bureaus or other like organizations in- 

 terested in extension work in the formu- 



lation of county and community plans of 

 cooperative extension work. It will then 

 be the duty of the county agents under 

 general direction of the E.xtension Di- 

 rector to take charge of the carrying out 

 of such plans and to cooperate with offi- 

 cers, committees and members of the 

 farm bureaus and with other organiza- 

 tions and residents of the county in the 

 prompt and efficient execution of the.se 

 plans. 



Terminology 



In order to do away as far as possible 

 with the confusion now existing in the 

 public mind regarding the organization 

 and work of the Farm Bureau as related 

 to the county agents and the Extension 

 Service generally, it is recommended that 

 hereafter in publications and otherwise 

 the cooperative extension service shall be 

 differentiated from the Farm Bureau 

 work. That is, the faim bureau will 

 have its relations with the extension ser- 

 vice (consisting of the county agents, ex- 

 tension committees, demonstrations, etc.) 

 as one of its departments. Other de- 

 pai-tments might be a publicity depart- 

 ment which would prepare and publish a 

 periodical (Farm Bureau News), press 

 articles and notices announcments of 

 meetings, etc., department of relations 

 with marketing and other cooperative as- 

 sociations, etc. 



The work which centers in the county 

 agents would be designated as the Co- 

 operative Extension Service and the mis- 

 cellaneous enterprises of the Farm 

 Bureau as Farm Bureau work. 



Farm Bureau Federation 



The County Farm Bureaus have their 

 State and National (American) Farm 

 Bureau Federations, which are working 

 on economic and legislative matters and 

 are akso promoting the extension service 

 and agricultural education and research. 

 These Federations are, however, not di- 

 rectly connected with the Extension Ser- 

 vice and do not enter into cooperative 

 agreements with the State Colleges and 

 the Department of Agriculture involving 

 the u.se of Federation funds and the em- 

 ployment of extension agents, and the col- 

 lege and the Department are not respon- 

 sible for the activities of the Farm Bu- 

 reau Fedei'ations. There is, however, 

 much advisory consultation between rep- 

 resentatives of the Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tions and officers of the Colleges and the 

 Department with references to plans for 

 advancing the agricultural interests of 

 the States and the Nation. 



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