Community civics and rural life . nt of Agriculturesupervises and administers these cooperative relations withthe states under the terms of the Smith-Lever Act. In each U. S. Government Experimental Farm, Beltsville, Md. state there is a director of extension work who represents boththe United States Department of Agriculture and the stateagricultural college. Under him there is usually a state agentor leader, district agents, county agents, and specialists ofvarious kinds. The county agents conduct agricultural demon-stration work in their counties and assist in organizing ruralcommunities fo
Community civics and rural life . nt of Agriculturesupervises and administers these cooperative relations withthe states under the terms of the Smith-Lever Act. In each U. S. Government Experimental Farm, Beltsville, Md. state there is a director of extension work who represents boththe United States Department of Agriculture and the stateagricultural college. Under him there is usually a state agentor leader, district agents, county agents, and specialists ofvarious kinds. The county agents conduct agricultural demon-stration work in their counties and assist in organizing ruralcommunities for cooperation. Women county agents, or homedemonstration agents, are rapidly being installed also, to con-duct extension work in home economics and organize cooperationamong the women. In the Southern States during 1915 about 110,000 farmers carried outdemonstration work under the supervision of county agents. Each suchfarm demonstration serves as an object lesson for the entire community. GOVERNMENT AS A MEANS OF COOPERATION 149. 150 COMMUNITY CIVICS These demonstrations included corn raising in 446,000 acres, cotton in202,000 acres, tobacco in 2630 acres, small grains in 196,000 acres, and manyother products in hundreds of thousands of acres. Stumps were removedfrom more than 70,000 acres, 220,000 acres were drained, and there were29,000 demonstrations in home gardens. Sixty-four thousand improvedimplements were bought. Work was done with orchards involving more than2,000,000 trees, 29,000 farmers were instructed in the care of manure with anestimated saving of more than 3,000,000 tons. Farmers in 678 cooperativecommunity organizations were advised with regard to the purchase of ferti-lizers with a saving in cost of $125,000. One thousand six hundred fifty-four community organizations were formed to study local problems and tomeet local business needs. Nearly 63,000 boys were enrolled in corn clubs. There were also in the Southern States 368 counties with home demon-stration
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