Status and results, county agent work, Northern and Western states, 1919 . program, but the impor-tant thing is that it gives evidence of the fact that the people them-selves are thinking in terms of the community with the assurancethat the ultimate sound program will be a product of concertedthought and concerted °—20 2 10 Department Circular 106, Z7. S. DepL of AND NATIONAL PROGRAMS. The matter of State, regional, and even national programs of workin agriculture and home economics is being discussed, and there ismuch that is attractive in such proposals. Illino
Status and results, county agent work, Northern and Western states, 1919 . program, but the impor-tant thing is that it gives evidence of the fact that the people them-selves are thinking in terms of the community with the assurancethat the ultimate sound program will be a product of concertedthought and concerted °—20 2 10 Department Circular 106, Z7. S. DepL of AND NATIONAL PROGRAMS. The matter of State, regional, and even national programs of workin agriculture and home economics is being discussed, and there ismuch that is attractive in such proposals. Illinois has had for severalyears a permanent program in agriculture, based on soil improve-ment and has secured valuable results because the county agents haveworked as a unit in advancing this basic idea. A few other Stateshave made some progress in developing and carrying out certainState-wide projects. The development of regional and nationalprograms is yet in the discussional stage. The war gave greatemphasis to the need of such agricultural organization. It found our. Fig. 3.—A meeting of a county executive com m ittee in Eddy County, N. Mex., to discuss extension work. agriculture without well-defined national ideas. The emergencyprogram, hastily developed to meet war needs, while eminently usefulin securing the results desired frequently resulted in considerablelocal disturbance of sound agricultural and economic practice. Onthe other hand, these very inequalities have been most potent inhelping farmers to think nationally. The county agent system hasgiven to the farmers permanent paid leadership. To this more thanall else is due the gratifying progress now being made in the develop-ment of a nation-wide agricultural extension system. Attractive andimportant as a national program may be, the real progress must comefrom community effort and the doing of comparatively simple thingswhich country folks understand the need of and to which they arewilling to give personal effo
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