COOPERATIVE
EXTENSION WOF!K
IN
AGRICULTURE
AND HOME
r
ccmrourcs
State A ricul
tural
College
of
Colorado,
U.
S
.
Depart ont
of Agriculture
and
La.rimer
County Cooperating
AN1~U AT.., R
PORT
01'"1 COUNTY AGE ·IT
W
ORK
December 1., 1920 to
November
30, 1921, inolusi ve
1hlN
.AL
P.EPOFT
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mEX
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Agrion
tu.rsl Re ou ·co
of L
r
iraer
County
Bri
f
:Iisto
·y
Work
in La.rim
r
ld
r ...
SU, ,3 OJ.County
.
Or
aniz·1ti01.
Crop I~ rova
rnen
t.
Orc:h.arl"!
Imp
rove
l:1t'nt
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t
Pe
t
Control.
Fair
Blue
s·i:.y
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Annu 1 Report •
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Stat ist
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R !)ort u
!·'l.ry
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AGR
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CULTURAL RE,.,,OUHCES
OF
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Rural population
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BRIEF HISTORY
AMD
REsm:.E
OF
COUNTY
AGEr'T
WORK
IN LARI
MER
COUNTY
4.
On
t
he
1
5
t
h
of
hovember..,
1917, the board of
County
Co
mm
i
ss
ior
te
r
l)
s
i
gned
a.n
agreem
e
nt wi
th the
Ex
·
tension
Det
a
.rt
m
ent
of
t
h
e Colle
g
e to
employ
a
County
Agent,
On
A
pr
il
l,
1918,
the
presen
t
agen
t
was
em
.
loye
beinr
th
f'.i.rst
on.e
in
the
oounty
.
Due
to
t
he
very
a
riou
outbre
o
.
f
i
nfluenza
in
the
fall
of
1918,
no
or
1;anizat
ion
ork
was
tarte
until
in J
anu-:
y
l9J.9,
-r
11hen
on the
25
t
11
.,
some
tempora.1•ily
app
ointe
d
oo
mm
uni
ty
ch
airn
en
1ere
cal le to~other for
o.
conferenc
e
.
It
w.:...e
de
ci
d
ed
to hol
d. me
ting:
in t
h
.
evoral
co
mmun
iti
a
and
.xplu.in
t
he
oo
mun
i ty
and
oounty
p
l
an
of
or
tr
Li-nizat
io
n
.
Accordingly,
me
etin
gs
w
ere
held
in
t
welve
oo
mmt.1.11
1 ti
es where program.a
of
work w
ere
adopted and
lea
er
oho
en fnr
th
e
v
a
riou line
·
1•A
county
wi
e
m
eetin
g
was
oalled
for
February
19,
wh
ich
w
as
w
ell
a.tt nded
by
repre
sen
t
at
iva
s
.
from
tne
t
~,e
l
ve oo
nJm
un1
ties
.
The
oounty
plan
of
wo
r
k
111aa
explained
and
the
co
un
ty
p
ro
g
ram
adopted
.
O
ff
icer
and
county
p
r
jeot leaders
were
cho
en
.
This
ame :plan
of
cou
nt
y
ond
co
m.mun
i
ty
or
gan
i
zat
i
on
h
aa
b
ee
n
follored
eaoh
year
e
i
n
ce. Ther
e
was
a.
tend-nay at
ftrat
to
ad·
o
p
t
t·oo
man
y
p
rojects
but
ea.oh
ye
ar
ham
sean
t
he
number
The
fir et
year
I
;"J
·
ae
in the c
oun
ty, I
handled the Boye• and
Girls' Club
wo
r
k
but since "arch 1,
1
91°,
"I
.
s
.
Hill hashed
co
m
-plete
oharge
of
club
vo
r!
und
we
are proud of the fact
th~t
v
e
con
_
i
de
r
him
the bePt
club
leader
in
the tnte.
At one tim,
ie
ca.me ne
r
loosing
hir
to
a..notha:t
oou
ty,
·
ut
-.
1e
i,\ ..re
abl
to
g
t
his
.
t
1·
·
y
raised u_fioiontly to hold
him
.
Due
to
his
efforts
U
ere
h
~
')
been
.
a
conr t mt
increaee
in qunl
i
ty
of
club
·rn
r1.. .
...
one
.
County
project
leaJ.f.:tra c
an
a
num
only
a
certain
rt .unt of
esron
1,ility
n
account
of
lack
of
t
i.mo
.
I
thin
in
the
paB
t,
..
e
h·Vc
a~
-
eot
d
t
0 I lh
f
1.th
m
;
'· t l
-t ne
thin
,
is
sure,
w
e
hnv not
b
0n
abl
to
,~ 1lft
y
r.:re:!.
t
!tun.
of
re
oon5
ibil
ity
to
t
... m.
tL.,
t ye
ar,
I
favor
oing
aYny
lrith
t
e
County
Project
Lea
der5
o.n
·
1
centerin
g
our ePfor
-
t
.)
on
t
1e
vork1n
.ut
of the
Cor
r,1·
unity
Project
ith
help of community eader~.
)
I
feel h'"t th;
County
E
ecutive Co
.rn
ittee shoul
be c
lled
the .
.
visory Council
·
n, should.
be
ma.do up of
he
Co
n
m
uni
ty
Ch
irmen
w
ith
the officer of the
County
Org niz
tion.
They
shoul
,
m
j'-':t
bi-monthly,
or oft
.1.er
,
vith
the
county
Extension
6.
ORGANIZATION
Forty-three
days
have
boen
s
p
ent
on
organiz
~i
t
ion t
l
is
ye
a
r.
Vie
feel
thL
is too
much
time,
especially
sine
most
of the
effort
ho.a
been
expended on county
or
k
.
lle
made
a
great
effort last
winter dur
in
p
·
the
mon
ths of
December
and
February to
put
over the
County Fa.r
m
Bureau
cam
pa
ign.
If
this time had
been spent
on
co
mmu
nity
·,,·ork, more definite
reault
in the Co!
•m
unities
would
be
a:
rp
ar-ent.
le worked fifteen
day
in December,
seven
in January
ana
eleven in February on county
w
ork, neglecting
some
i
mpo
rta
nt
oor:i
r
.
mni
ty
~w
rk.
1
e
plan
to
e
Hmd
.ore
ti
m
e
this
:v
inter
in
com-munity
'O
r
k
and
expect to
have our local
proje
cts
and leaders
line u
p
by
January
f
irst.
CROP IMPROVEMENT
c
o
,
r
n
~ o
fa.l'11!era in
the
County
furnished
us with
all
the
regi tered
'.Minnesota No
.
13
seed
r1e
needed
this
spring
.
This
year,
six
men
and
four
corn
club boys
W
'
ill
be
able to
sup
_
ly
all
your
need.a for
this
seed
.
The year
ha.a
been
eapec
ially
good
,
for
maturing
of eeed corn
.
year
and
the
average
yield
1
forty
buehe~e
per
acre.
,,
e
had
one ear
to
row
te
s
t
on
the
farm
of
Paul
Mead,
w
est
o
.
f Berthoud
.
This test
,,as
in co
peru.t ion
with
M
r
.
A
.
E
.
M
oCly
monde
,
Extensi.rm
Agi--oncmhrt
and the
Colorado
Seed
Laboratory
.
·
Mr
.
i.1
o
C
lymonda
and
I
with
1..r
.
Mead
select
ea.
one hundred
ea.rs
for
the test
.
'
r
ha
seed
laborat
,
ory;
under
the
direction
of
Mis~
tuta
tested t
he
one hundred
ears
for
germination
.
The
fifty
ea.re
sho·
ing the
higherst
gcrm
inati(m
were
'
U$ei
.
In.
,
ord,3r
to e cw
the
fr..tllaoy
of
judg
in
g
the
g~rmi.nati~n by ap
.~)
e&.rar1c
·
'I
of
t
Hl
ear
.,
five
men
ju~
ged
fairly
clo
se
together but
there
was a big
var
-i
a
ti
on on
some of
the
ears between the estimated. and aotaal
ge
r
m
i
nation
.
One ear
which
ti1.e
five
m
en
ju
dge,.,,
one bunlred per
aent
good,
failed
to
ehow a s ingl.. .. s;rout
in
forty
kernel<"
t
·
ested
.
Ea.r number 30
:
produoed
a.
uniformily
shorter stalk
by
t
wo
feet
t
han
did
the
al.,;.j
oining ro
w"'
,.
This ro
w wru1
very
much
lower
in
yield
than
moat
of
the
,
othor
rO\~
a
.
the field, the accuracy of yield on the
first
t
~
enty ro
w~
1
in
doubt
.
8.
The ten show ears
.
wh
ich.
w
on
fir·"
t
at
the Boulder
and
Larimer
Counties Corn
Showe
we.re
planted
in this test.,.
but
id not make
a hi
.
tJ.
yield.
They
·
ere ha.n
ica
pped
ome
tV'ha;.,
by
cut
worm
dama::.:,e
.
The
pa
rent
ears
of t
e
ten 1 ig
1y1o
.ing
r
i
s
\'l•ill be
pla
tee
.. n a s~arute
pl
t ne~t
~
rin
~ b
y
Mr
.
!
ead
and thi~
UPed
a
his poci·11
'",Cd
\
lot
fro
m
·
/h
ioh he
w
i
.
11
ma.ko early
elections
next
f
al 1
•
The o o
i
o
$e
1r ~fr orn
th
nten
h
i
gh
y
i
e 1
o. i
n
g
r
CM A.t
h
is
yed:r
~n1
e
u ed for
hi
ge
ner
a
l
fleld
p
lanting
next s.,ring
.
Tb
e
f
o
.
1
o
:
inf
·
1:rf.!".h.:.t\"'A
A. C.
St
ice.,
A • B • St
e,...
l
en .
,
Paul
Moaa.,
Ch.r 1sty
.
&
..
orrall,
Ed Chasteen,
M
•
0
•
P
".
t t en .,
Oliver S ielda
11• Robert Shields,
•
Bear Bro
•
•
Corn Club Boye.
""tvr~d
J
i1
n
sota
Carr~
Colorado.
Ft.
C ,llins.
B.,rthoud.
Ft.
Co
111ns.
Ma
onvil
0V
e1lington.
~1e1 l
1ngt
on.
Well
in
gton
.
ellin~ton.
:Jo
.
11
thi
year:
12
acres
12
n1
5
"
10
It r.t 11"'
5
n3
"
1
nz
flWe
r.Aiate
ten
far
n
ers
in elect
lng
ho~
'
p
les
for
the
Count
y
C
orn
Sh
w
a.rd
f
r the S't, te
Corn
S1 ow.
Have
a.
s
i
ted
i
n
makin
~elections
for tne County Corn Show.,
·
necember
5
-10.
High Altitude
£2!:n.
Testa
~~
Thi
1
rin
·u-e
disf,;r
i
buted. mall amount
of
Blue
Squan,
orA..h
,
e tern Dent, Gehu.,
~1
oonsin
.1.lO
.
? an
1
con
in
ti
•
8
t
r
anchmen
t
elevations from
six
thou~an
to e
g:ht
thoue
d
feet.
?he
Gehu
and northwestern
Dent
matured
best
an
rn plan
to
us'"'
C!ome
of this
seed
for plantin2"
a·
in
at
high elevati
ns next
spring.
The r
ch
men
in
the
mountains
are
very anxious to raise
#
A
O
me
corn
and
this
iA
the
fir
t
tl1oy
have
been
able
to
mature
.
/
/(
_..,,·
Ir"'
9.
Potatoes
Consi
d
er
ab
le
interest
was
manifeet
la
s
t
sr
,
ring in
g
ood
seed
potatoe
.
s
.
.le had many
inquiries for
better eeed
.
7
e
had
more
call
for better .eed
than
,a
e
g
ror,
here,
so
through the
Agricultur
a
l
Department
of
the C
.
&
S
,
rail
wa
y, I
got
in
-
touch
with
the
County
Agent
at
Lual<,
W
yoming
and.
eeoured
from
him
four
hundred
seventy-ei
gh
t
pounds
of certified
Iri
sh
Cobbler
seed
.
Thie
1e.s
p
laced out
~d.
th
five farmers and
the
aver,lge
yield
secured
by
three farmers
re
.
·
Orting
was
one
hundred fifty
-four bushels
per
aore. The largest
yield
reported
was a
t
the
rate of t
wo
hundred
fifty
bushels
er acre
.
Laid down in Ft
.
Co1
l ins,
thr. 1::seed
coat
four tf.olla.rs and
tt
.
irty-thr
e
e cents per
hundred weigLt
.
/I-~~urcd
.
four
hundred
and
sa
venty-f
lve pounds
of certi
-fied Tr
.1.ur~:ph
sf~:~i
frcm
Gus For
el
ing.,
Bushnell,
Nebr-::
..
aka and
p
l
aced
t
h
i.
·;~
Br.J~d ,.t:h
nine fc.r·mer,
.
Thre
r:
..,
men
rer
orted
.
:an
·
avera
b~
yiel
d
on Triurr.y
..
h
·
a.t
one
hunclred
ei
ty-ei:,,;;
bur
~h
ela
per
acre
.
The largest
yield
w~s at
the
rate of two
hund:rec
twenty-four
bushels per acr
e.
T'
h
ia
seed
sto
o
l
coc;t throa
dollars
and
ninety cents
pe
r
hundred ,eight at Ft
.
Colline
.
I
g
ot
t
w
o
hun red pounds
Pearl
seed
f:ror, the County Ar.
1;
ent
at
Che
yenne at
cost la.id in of two
dolla.rc~
a
nd thirty
-
five
cents
per
hun red
weight
.
One
man ~ot this
eed
and report~ a yield
at
'
the r
\.
..
te of
·
one
h1
ndred
fligr
~
ty
-
threo bushels per acre
.
I
a.lso sh
i
pr,
ed in
two l1up.dred
pounds
of
Early
Ohios from
C
heyenne
.
T
w
o
men go
t
this
re
,
rt
s
on
yield
from
them.
eed
b
ut have
net
been able
to
ge
t
- j
T
h
ia
seed cost
.
t
fOdollar
·
an~t
110.
Fros
C
ounty
A
ge
nt
l.~111ar
at
Castle
Rook,
I
g
ot nine
hundred and
ei
gh
t
pounds
of Triumph
se~d
.
Trro
nen got
this
aead but
local conditions ere
such
triat no fair te~~
t could be
obtained
.
This
seed
coat
three
dollars an
eig:hty•four
cent
s
per
hundre
weignt at
Ft
.
Co'll
ins
.
Our ole-anest
and
beat
potatoes
this
year
have be
.
en
g
r·o
w
n
in
Estes
Pr·rk.
Mr
.
Donald
MacGregor
gre
w
th
.
is
year eighteen
thousand
pounds
o.ertif ied Burbank
seed
.
:from t
\v
enty-five
pounds
seed
et
ock
hich
I
furn
isl ed
htm
t
,1
0
years
ago
.
From
r
if
teen
pourn:1e; Brown
Beauty
seed
t
v·o
years ago,
ha
now
has three
thousand
pounds of
-
certified
seed
.
r. Shep Husted of
Estes
Park has ten
thoueand poun
ds
certified
a
ced
of
Red
M
cClure
-a
and
thirty-
.~
ovon ti'oua
and
.
.
unds
oe
,
rt 1f1ed Ru~
ett
Burb
..
mk
seed
.
Dr
.
Sands ten
of tlie College
inspected
the
seed from these
t
w
o
m
e
n
iml
stated
th
u
t
he had
never
seen
better
se
ed
any
p
lace
,
Estes
P
c
..
r
k
ia i
d
eally
udapted for
the
product
ion
of
o
.to
ice seed
potatoes
an
w
ell
as for
rna
r
::l3t
sto
o
l
.
Our
men vill exhibit seed
and
rnarket
ty
p
e
at
our
County
Potato
Sho
r1
which
11
ill
be
bald
t:t1e
\VC~kof
Decernbt1r
5
.
All the
men who bad
certified
eeed
this aprin{t tr
,
eated
wi
th
corrosive
sublim
·
1t
e
at
the
rate
of
four ounces to
thirty
gall on
.
of
wa
ter.
Some
aoab
is
pre
ent
but
1n
o
m
e
c
a
ses
1
t
no
doubt
Cl,
e from the
soil
wh
ich h
.;td
been heavily fed
on
.
Wheat
~ o u g h
A
.
E
.
McClymond
,
Extension
Agronomist
at
the
College,
t
we got
1n 9528
pounds
certified Kan.red eed
wheat
fro
t11e
Hays
Experi1 ent
Station
at
Hays,,
Kanea.e
.
This
was
distributed
to
·
ttenty-four farmers
of the
county,
The
s
eed
cost eix
dollars
and forty
-
five
cents
:per hundred weigh
t
delivered
at
Ft. Coll
ins.
Some
of the
men did
not lant the
seed
on
account
of
ry
~011
con-d1tiona.
Others
~
ho did plant failed to
planted
sp
rin
g
v
he
1
t
on
the land./Eight
crop, tabulation
of
~
hich
fol~s.
~e
t a
stand and
later
men
made
report
on
the
KANRED WHEAT
lb
.:-. ..
.
rL
...
n
e
Date
Irrig.or
Yield
Name
.
S
-
uroe
Acree'!
ner acre
;r.lanted
Dry
Date
per
W
.-:r:-
Dra.ke
I- -
irr
rhn.Jrv
•
47
Haya
6
l
~
Geo.
Ju.ck
on
ff25
..:,5
Se:pt
•
10
dry
Dan
T.
R
.
R.
o
.
J.
MoG·
:
_-
hoy
.
n8
35
Dec.
20
nt
H
.
Sackett
,
n9
60
Aug
.
13
"
D
.
Trout-man
1t2
45
Se
·1
t.
15
n
c.
Benson
"
l
60
\Nov.
15
:
irr
E
.
Drid
...
eman
ffr
60
Sept
.
;fa
.
dry
0 . ,..)
H
.
Harm:
.
:,
fl15
50
Aug
irr
B
TOTAL
---;;i-·
Averag_o
yield
u
r
are,
h
..
rigatcd,
43
.5
bu
hels
Averr._~e
yield
per
acre,
dry,
35
.
8
bu he1 s.
t
July
10
.
. ug l
July
:
~16
.
l:·
Augl
-July
15
J1.1ly
;, 0
Ju
,,
..,~~
-
1
Acr~e
1rr1
.
ate,
t
w
elty-two;
aore
ry, for:y-nine.
dARQUIS HEAT
p
15
:
A.J.
Schlend-
-W
isecup
8
7
2
·a
r.
1rr
July
·
r1n
1
25
P ul
.f
ead
College
15
60
· ar.
19
-
irr. July
45
24
28
30
55
25
40
50
A
Seed
for
sa:b
1000
#
3000
*
4000
#
bu
~~17
.
33
12000
"
did n6t
Four
c:;thar
men
h
a
ving
re
gi
tared
Marq1is
e t
ave
failed
to
send
in
rr.mort
n tleir
oro
One
iz.o.n
r
ported
Kan.red yieldin
g
five
bu
hel. pe
acre
n1ore
than
1
2
.
From
the
C
ollege
we so.cured
forty
-
four
hundred pounds pure
Mar·\uls
sood
vl
1oh
was
iistributed
to
five
f
arme
rs
.
Only
t
rw
farmer
made
re
n
orta on thi
s ~h
eat
,
alt
ougb
I
lno.,
that
t
w
o
more
men
ad
yiel
ds
of
approximately
:fifty
bushels
pe
r acre
.
One
mc:U1
.;
ot
hia
.
ecd
f
r
om Boulder
County
.
Flel
1ns
p
eoti<m
.
s
'No
ra
ma.de and
cert
ifioa.tea
of
re
g
istra
-t
1011
·
·e
re
i
ssued to
~ix men for !ar1uL
Viheat ancl
to twelve
ORCHARD
I,
A
PROVE1IENT
On Docember 4,
19
20
,
the
fruit
g
ro
t've
r~
of
L
arimer
0
0\.:..r ...
ty
or
~z/1.ni:~ed
cm.r Cotmt
,
y
F
)rt
icnl
tu
.raJ
Clu
.b.
'fhtj
c
lub
ho:i
.d~
tn6otin
':;
s c ch month,
one
month
€t
t
to el
and
, t}
.
e ne
t
at Ft. Coll in
-
Baca\H
~a
of the
c)rganization of
thif:\
club,
tho
oou
1ty
project
on
orchard im
p
r
o,,e
ant
'1aa
be
,n
tu:rned
ove
t
Oth.c
club.
1X
he:ce a.re
thirty
rr,ember
9at the
p
resent
ti
me
.
There
ha.Vo
been held>
onr demons
tr
at
ions
i
n pruning
.
On
ore
10.r":at
La
Porte
·
wn.s
sert
out
and
~)
runed
under
t
1.
e
d
irectio
n
of the
Co
l
le
ge
.
One
demonst
rati
on
of fruit
.)
rafting
was held
..
t
the
Collo
t,.E
h
In
all f
thi
~
1ork
,
wo
h".V,,had
14.
LIVESTOCK IMPROVEMEMT
On December 2,
1920,
the Breeders
'
Associ
ation of Boulder
and
Lur irner
Counties
held a Bre
-
d So
w
Sale at the Stook
Jud
g
ing
Pavilion
at the
Agricultural
Collage
at
vhioh time
twenty-eight
head
of
sow were sold
.
Fifteen
Polard
.
s
avera.gad. $72
.
50 and
thirteen
Durooa a.ver
.,;1.ged $57.65 making a FSale average
of
$65.60
.
We
made
p
lans for
and
helped
carry out the Combination
Sale
at
Longmont
held
February
19, under the
dire
,
ot
ion of the
two county Breeders' Aasooia.t1ona.
There
were both bogs
a
nd
cattle
at
this
sale,
the
sale
totaling
$3700
.00.
I
got
out
sale
catalog for the Bred
Sow Sale
to
be held
December
8,
1921 at Ft. ·Collins.. This
iB
also
in
cooperation
w
ith the Boulder County
Aesooiation.
There
will
be seventeen
Polands
and nine Durocs
in this
sale.
Dairying
At the beginning of the
year,
no
particular
attention
was
given
to
dairying but about
!lovember
1,
we
·
began to talk oows
to a
good many
farniera.
We found
considerable interest
but
the
lack of capits-~l
prevents many
of the
men from buyin
g
cowa.
We
talked
with
each of the four
b
··
nks in Ft. Collins
and with
the
Wellington bank a.nd
foun1 them very
ttuah
interested.
We
called
a
meeting
of the
bankers and eleven men from
the five
banks
turned. out. At the
meeting
,
w
e had
Mr
.
Reed an
d
Mr
.
Ford
,
A
g
r1-oultural
a.gents for
the C.
&
s.
railroad.,
Professor Morton and
Director
Mccann
of the
College.
There
wa
very
good interest
15.
rr.il
uo
'Sin
the
county,
we
rnuld be
very
m,10h
better
ofl, for
the
farmer
oul, then be in
po ition to tnYe c·xe of hie
run
ni
ng
ex-pense
.
s n ih·ve a steady
inco
me wh
ich
Nou
ld
en ble him tot et hi
regular
b il)
t1t..Ea
ch
bank gr e
to
hel:)
f
1na.nca
so e f
~r
1er and
re
oue
t~d
that I invo
tigata
o.e
of
the
man
to
find out
if
they
had
plent
y
of
feed,
.
uita.ble b
ildin.
g
and a.re taking
c
~.r
e of the
dairy
too. they
no·v
have
.
e
then
re1 ort back
to
the bank
a
wha
t
e
f
in1 an
the
banlc,r may
then
talk
a
it
tl
e
more
int
cl
i
p.;en tly
about
o.irying
to hL
cu
to
nie
r
·
.
.
Of cour e, the
custo
mer
d.oe
not
kno,
tt,t
the
b nk has
sent
me
to
talk
ith
him
on
hie
own
farm
.
I have
·
one 1
i
ttle since
N
ovem1)er
1
but
talk
co
s a
r
,
a
ult
., 1
t
ap
pea
r
t
a
t there
will be
t
·
·
o ear
n
ordere
d
frcm
· ellington and
one
from
Ft
.
Collins.
The
local
bank
wil.
help
fina.nce moat
of
the
farmer
for
these
corn, in
eo. e
oa
ao
n
a.kin.,
arr awe
nentn
to
divide the
n
ilk or
cte
un
chock
ach
month
o.nd
in
cthe1·
C,J.Se ,aim
-ply
mak
i
g
n.
tr
a.igh
t loun
.
On November 23, abcut thirty
-
five
of our
farrnors
.~n
t
on a
dairy
tour
_
to
the John
t~.n rogio
n
.
vi
ited the
oon
d
nsery
o.n
five do.iry herds
in that cmnmunity.
Vie
found
tre
farmer
ell
at
iaf
ied in the
.a
iry
and
in
a
proaperou
,
con
it
ion
.
r
.
.
E
.
Latfor
d
, President of the
First Ntttion· l Ba.nk at
Johnsto
·hn
telL
us there
ha.a
n t been
a fa.rm
m
or
tg' J
e
)
laced in that co
nm
unity for
the
paot
t o
year
.
He ~tnt s
thrt
there is
a
atri
of country
ten
an,A
on
-half
mile~
lon
and
not
a .fa.rm
mortgn.~e
on either
ide
of the
road
an.d
the
rt
iry co has been
reepon
1ble
.
He
sr
y
s
that
in their community they
have about seven
thousan tons of exce
Ahay
this
year
a.nd
.
t
ha
t
the
_
best pr
ice they could
1
igure on t
h
is
16 ..
by
p
utting
this
hay
into
dairy
o
,
o
ws
,
they
c
an
realize
ten
dollars
per
ton
.
We
are leaving the
35th of Novembe
r
with Mr
.
Reed, Agricultural
Agent
for
the C
.
.
&
s
.
,
for
W
isconsin to
buy da
iry
cattle
f.or
the
farmers of this county
·
.
There
w
ill
evidently be
three c
a
r loads,
at least, in
th
i
a first
shipment
.
Our slogan
in this county is "six
good
oo
·.v
~ on
every
f"ar
rn
.
"
If
it
w
ere
u.
reality,
it
would
n
e
a
n th
a
t
our
farms
wou
ld
be bring
-ing in
an
income of
forty
-
five
to
fifty
dollars per
m
onth on
dairy
p
r
oducts
.
Thie
v,ould
be
of materia.1 assistance at
this time
as
many of our
fa:r·mer,
~
,
wh
en they
settled
up
w
ith
the bank
on
account
of their sugar beet
s
had
nothing left
.
Many
c
a.
n not
pay
their
grocery bille
or for clothing,
ma
chinery,
etc.,
w
here
as
,
a
fe
w
o
owa
w
oul
d
have
meant a steady
income
and
have mado
possible for
a farmer to
m
eet
·
his
incidental expenses
~
It
w
ould
also give him
something to oc
c
upy his labor
with in
the
winter monthe
.
We
have
plans under
,ay
to hold
a dairy
co7
~
feeding
s
c
hool
in J
a
nuary for the
benef
1
t of the
farmers
who
are
ord
.
er ing
co
w
s
f!OME
I
MPROVE!lENT
Schools for
arm
women
f:ere
held
.
in
the
follorving
oo
mmun
1
ties:
Place
Log Cab
in
Va
verly
Vaverly
Ti
mnutb
Bert
houd
Kind
M
illi
ne
ry
Dres
Form
.'111
i
nery
M
illin
e
ry
Dreaa
Form
Attendance
15
.
'
10
20
40
26
Dase
3
1
2
a
l
The
Farm
111omen
are very
much
intere
t
.
ed
and
wou
l
d
like
to
ha
ve
a Home Demonatrat1C"in Ae;.ent to
r
k Ni
t
h
them.
18.
PEST CONTROL
,.,.
-~-~"
~ e r e
are
no1
twenty
pest districts
in the
c
ounty organized
for control of
prairie dogs and
ground squirrels
.
Work
as
done
on fifty farms this
yeax
.
Twenty-three
of this number
were
poisoned
at county e
enee and
the expense charged
as
taxes
against
the
land
.
Many
badly
infe
ted
areas have been
cleaned
up
and graso
h·
a
grovn abundantly this
aumme!
:
vhere t
w
o
years
a.go the
land
as pr act
icully
bare on
account
of prairie
There
still
remains considerable
work
to
be done
and
we feel
that e
sh0uld have a working fund
of one thou
and dollar
to
be
u ed
for
clean u
work
.
This
winter and
spring the
work
hould be done and by placing
a
field party
on the
ground
in
charge of
a
competent
man, we should be ·ble
to completely
exterminate these
po
te
.
We
use approximately three thousand
pounds
of
poisoned oats which we secured from
tre
office of the
FA
I
RS
La
t
fall
the following
oon
:-ri
unitie
decided
to
t
ke looo.l
fairs
a.
one of t
e
·r rojects
:
I
llin.)to
,
'7..,verly,
LB
Porte
and Berthoud
.
Fair
o
m
ittee
,e
re chosen
but not much
~a
done
·
mt
11
Au
0st ihcn
th
pl·
be?
.t lto
take
o: e
e ~· pe
.
Each
of the-
e
co
::
uni tie
held ery
:1ucoo~sft1l
local
fair( o,,n1
a.
great
.ltH ..
l of int
ere.
t
t~
m
mife
t
in
the
f
t·
ir •
The
better
e
.
hioi
t...,
,ere
t·
·
Ken
tl e
nt:Yxt ·ve,~
·
~
to t
1e
County Fair
.
Th
.
ere
1
rn
ke·:m
competition
.
e
h
ve
een
mor
com
,
u
1 ty c
orer-9.t
ion
in the
·
e
ur
com
uni tie,..·
tba
e"Jer b
f
re
and
rn believe
it
was partly .. :ue
to the
sti
ru
.
lati
n
th
y
r
ceived in
ho din:.
these
airs
.
The, ..
e fair
tend
to
ma.--e
bette1'
farm
and
home
products and
evelop local
lea.de
·
rs1ip
.
Tne
County
Fair
A
·3
ociu.tion
helr
.
t
"~
o
meetin
:
~
t
Lovel·
nd
at
·.·h
ie time rer
.1
re
ant
t
i
ve.
r
....
re
pre
ent
from
the
f
ur com
-mun1
t-ie n
ned above
.
Pl
s
wsre
ade for
a.
better
f
ir
f
cr
net
year
.
Everyone
Rae
nthuaiastic,
e
ecially
over
tna
sh
u
in.g
ma.de
by
the co
mm
unity
fair...
It
•,Ja"
ec·
·
,
ed to e11
i
ate
profe .
1on
::i
l
hcr:"'C
r~ co
and
aport
of variou
sorta
will be
I
BLUE SKY
A
blue
sky
oomm1 ttee
was
ap
p
ointed to inveatigcite
desirability of various investments offered to far
m
ers.
No a
ctivity
was
reported 1n this department o
w
ing to the
depresa
·
ed
financial situation
.
A.
good
conservative
£armer was
.
in charge of
·
this
department
but n
·
o oalls
came to him
for
service in this re
g
ard.
FARM
LABOR
The
quest
ion
of
l
abo
r
l.Jar:3turne
d
over to the
Ch
ambe
r
of Co
mm
erce
and
they
have hand.led
it
in
a
very
fin
.
e
Iy
.
T
here
huo
b
·~....,
n
a
ccmdtant
surplus
·
of
labor
throughout
the
year
.
On February 19,
I
oalle
d
to
geth1
r re
,
r
esen
tative
s
frorr
every
farrr
i.n
g
co
mm
unity
in
the
county
to
con i
de
r
wat
5
es
to
be
pa.
id throu
gh
spring and summer
mon
th~.
The
follo1ing
l1cale
was
adopted. and
remaine
d
in e
ff
ect
until the prement
time:
Single
n.en
,
from
$35
.
oo
to
$45
.oo
per
m
onth
and board,
married
men
,
from $65
.
00 to
i75
.
00
per month
w
it
1out boa
r
d
.
This
had
great
effect in
staba.lizing
far
m
l
abo
r
and
no
far
m
er
had
any
difficulty
in
securing oo··
help
at
t
hie!
w
a?;e.
There
were eight hundred and
seventy
-
five
m
en or
w
om
en
placed
on far
ms
.
More
far
m
ers
did
tleir
own
w
ork this year
RESUME
AN
NUAL
REPORT
Eaoh
year
the
work
in
this county
assumes
a little mor
e
definite
proport
ions t
han
the
previous
year>
and
while
we did
not
get done
all
we hoped
for,
.ve
ca.n see that some very
def
-inite
things have been a.ccompl iehed
.
The
general
att 1 tude of
the farmers
was
never better
than
at
the
present
,
and
it
has
been
due
to the fact that some
definite
things have
been done
wh
ich
have
been benef
ici
a.l
to th
·
e
f
a.rme
,
rs of the
county.
Although
our or
gan
ized
oommunity
w
ork
h· s not developed
as
·
~,e
expected
,
there
haa
been
aome
good
wo
r
k
done in four
c
ommunities
whi
c
h
is bearing fruit
.
The loaal
fairs held in
t
hese
four
co
mmunities
h.ae
great
ly
st 1mulated
cooper
ation
among
the
farmer
·
a and
businee
interests of the town
•
We
find that in helping
communities
select
their
programs
of
work
,
there ha.ve
not
been specific
things listed
for
the
leade
·
rs to
do
.
Then
too, the
mistake ha.a
been
made
of
under-taking the impossible
.
Thia
is
discouraging
to the loo
il
le
a.dare
.
'
One
i
mp
ortant
phase
of
the
wo
r
k
this
year
Nhi
c
h
waa
not
dreamed of a year
ago wl'len
the
c
ounty p
roject
s were
formulated,
ie
that of dairy
cow
importations
from
Wis
con
sin
.
T
hia
branch
of
the Livestock Projeote grew up
over night,.
so
to
speak,
and
bids
fair
to
overshadow
the
origin
a
l
project
.
On some
proje
cts
which wer
e clloaen
at
the
County
meeting
last
December,
no
work
was
done,
there
being no demand
from the
23.
The tablo in rear of the St at iet
ioal
report
shows
cons idera.bl e
time spent on
Organization.
Thia
was
largely
on
the
memborship
campaign for the
Fnx-m
Bureau
..
We
do not expect to
spend eo
much
time on this membership
~ork
a.gain
and
can
see that h
.1.d
we
spont
this
time in
getting
the co
r,
rn
unity
progra.nrn definitely
out
l
ined
and
rnrking,
our effort
a
would
have resulted in
more sat
iafaotory
work
in the
oommunit1es
.
Looking
baok,
ie
are
incline to
attach
greater im4' ortance
to the community
programs
and
the loaal lead.era, than to the county
projects
and county leaders
.
Instead of selecting county
project
leaders
whom with
the officers
make
up the
present
ttExecutive
Cor
n.
1
t
tee
Owe
are
ready to recomn
end
that
the
chairman
for
each
community together
with
the county
farm bureau
officers
consti-tute
an
"Advisory Board'"
11th
whom
the
County E~tens1on
·workers
may meet
as often
as
denme~
necee;sary
to
pla.n
out
the
1vork
.
I
find
it
is
generally
true in this state that the Oounty Pro
·
jeot
leaders do not lead and
ye·t
in
many
instances
they
get
the
credit
.
Therefore.,
we may
plan
for carrying on the various lines of
work
throughout the county
.
Our Executive committee has been
faithful
in attendance at
monthly
meetings but ha
aoted
in advisory capa
-city
more
than as leaders of Oounty Projects
.
Ae a matter of
fact,
we
cannot expect a county
project
le
ad.e
r to
&r
ive
t
h
e
nece
aa.ry
time to
pu
t over a county project, for the county
project
can
only
be
put
over
by
the cooperation of the
oommunitieA
with
tl
1
e
assistanc
-
e of the
.
County Extension
workers
.
There
may
be
an
occasional exception to this
but none of
our
county
leade~s
can
afford the time neces~ary to do this rnrk themselves
.
It then
largely reaol ves itself into a matter of the County Ext
ens
ion
work-ers
ae
..
isting the local community
leaders in
putting
over the
i
r
Form 6. Revised Jan., 1921.
COOPERATIVE EXTENSION WORK IN AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREState Agricultural College and County Farm Bureau Cooperating.
STATES RELATIONS SERVICE Office of Extension Work North and West
WASHINGTON, D. C.
ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AGENT
(Due November 30, 1921)
State of
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If
agent has not been
employed entire year,
indicate
exact
period.
Agents
resigning during
year
should
make out this report
before quitting
the
service.
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(For map of State showing location of county, photograph illustrating some phase of county agent work,
or brief summary of outstanding features of the work.)
Approved:
Date
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--Preswent of Farm Bureau.
