SOME QUALIFICATIONS OF THE WOMAN COUNTY AGENT 



do a few things in a certain way. If careful training will get 

 results in such cases, surely we should be able to train superior 

 human intellects so that they can teach others. One woman 

 can increase the efficiency of a hundred women and as many 

 girls, by guiding them along definite paths. She changes the 

 life of the whole county by directing a limited number. She 

 must keep her ideal in mind and work towards it at all times. 

 The people will see it in the gradual unfolding. A person who 

 has only a day or two to spend in a large city realizes the 

 importance of the work that a guide does. Many agents have 

 guided the home activities of a whole county in a still more 

 effective way. 



A Rhodes scholar, from the Union of South Africa, spent 

 a year in this country studying agricultural organization and 

 development. He grew ten acres of cotton and took part in all 

 phases of work necessary to produce and harvest it. He 

 observed that a fourteen year old negro boy could hoe three 

 or four rows to his one and pick two hundred pounds to his 

 fifty. He came to the conclusion, that in order to succeed with 

 this crop in his country, that it would be necessary to transport 

 enough negroes from the cotton fields of the South to establish 

 a cotton farm every few miles and have a system of super- 

 visory directors to guide and train the workers. He said that 

 even the ignorant field hands in this country had absorbed a 

 lot of knowledge and skill from their environment. He shrank 

 from the task of teaching thirty million negroes in Africa to 

 grow cotton by any dogmatic or academic process. 



This same Oxford athlete was favorably impressed with 

 the American game of baseball and wondered whether he 

 might not take it back to the young men of his country. He 

 thought he might buy books of instructions for all the boys on 

 the teams and have them study the rules in school, and then 



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