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The ultimate type may be a combination of the good features of 

 both plans. 



Thus in brief we" have the complete work involving the service 

 of an educational system for the men, women, boys and girls on 

 the farm. It should be fully understood that the county agent, 

 either among the men or the women, is not left to his own fancy 

 or whim in the work. First there are the state agents or leaders 

 who look after the work in an entire state, with assistants, called 

 by that name, or district agents in case they are given a portion 

 of the state. 



There are also specialists to complete the work. These are men 

 who have been trained especially along some particular branch 

 of agriculture and therefore have studied and prepared them- 

 selves to meet special problems or sets of problems. These men 

 are entomologists, agronomists, horticulturists, dairymen, pathol- 

 ogists, etc. A few such specialists are employed to assist the 

 county agents along these special lines. There are also such 

 men as market experts and farm management experts who as- 

 sist the county agents in their various special problems. All of 

 these together, under a general director, constitute what is 

 usually known as the Extension Work or the Extension Service 

 of the state. 



Dr. Seaman A. Knapp died in the spring of 1911 at the ripe 

 age of seventy-seven years. After his death the work was con- 

 tinued without interruption. In these years it grew as before 

 and its various parts were perfected as the men engaged in- 

 creased in knowledge and understanding of the work they were 

 doing. In 1911 the work had been extended to all of the south- 

 ern states with the exception of Kentucky, West Virginia and 

 Maryland. In these states it was begun in 1913. 



As early as the fall of 1911, an effort was made in South 

 Carolina to bring together all the extension work in the state 

 and to join the federal and the state forces into one organiza- 

 tion managed under a cooperative agreement. The cooperative 

 agreement was actually perfected in December, 1911, and put 

 into operation in January, 1912. Under thi^ plan the College 

 of Agriculture of the State and the Federal Department agreed 

 on a joint representative to administer the work in the state and 



