THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



Wednesday — I was interpreter among a bunch of Mexicans 

 for the census enumerator. Here we had quite a little fun. 



Thursday — I wrote several letters, one in particular, to Mr. 

 S. Herrington, placement officer, Okla. City, in regard to Tom S. 

 Gardiner, a soldier who has proliferate anthritis (dead bone.) I am 

 trying to secure free training for this boy, and I feel sure I will be 

 able to do so. 



Friday — Wrote some letters, one to the Central Scientific 

 Company, sending warrant for a farm level which I purchased some 

 time ago. The money with which this purchase was made was given 

 to me by our county commissioners. These commissioners have never 

 denied me yet. 



Saturday — A gentleman called to see me this morning and 

 asked me to come out and survey his land." The other day I was 

 called to show a man how to butcher a hog. A third man wanted me 

 to visit his place and take a bloody wart off the leg of one of his 

 horses. The county agent, I have observed, must be a utility man, so 

 to speak. He must be a cosmopolitan, sort of a Dr. Jekyl and Mr. 

 Hyde. He must be a civil engineer, mechanical engineer, orator, 

 teacher, preacher, Sunday school superintendent, veterinary surgeon, 

 entomologist, queen expert, politician, bookkeeper, lawyer, importer, 

 exporter, auctioneer, financier, (to get by), statistician, economist, 

 landscape gardner, farmer, and Ford mechanic. The county agent 

 must render service in all the above callings in a rundown hard-to- 

 crank tin Lizzie. The county agent has a cinch." 



Thus it will appear that this worker has wonderful oppor- 

 tunities to stimulate the agricultural and economic life of the 

 county. He may be a strong moral force. He should cer- 

 tainly be a great co-ordinator. He sustains a vital relation 

 to the schools and is instrumental in connecting them closer 

 with the life of the people. He brings the city closer to the 

 country and causes greater harmony between them. He is 

 a publicist of the highest order. He is a booster for the best 

 in our civilization and when he has been on the job for a 

 hundred years, this will be a better country because of his 

 ministrations. 



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