Annual report of extension work in Colorado, 1923: Adams County

Annual Report of

Extension Work

In Colorado

1923

YARRAT IVJ:iJ REPORT

OF

J. T. ROBERT SON,

County Extension Agent, Adams County, Colorado for the year 1923.

This repor·t covers

the

period

from December

J

st.,

1922

to

Decen!ber 1st.,

192"'",

and

is an account,

in

narrative

form, of the work underta n and

the

work accomplished in

Ex-tension

Work

in

Adams

CouJ.?tY curing this period.

The County Farm Bureau of Adams County had been used

ever since its

organ'zation

a The

County Extension

Oreaniza-tinn _through which

it

tas

attemptec: to c1o Exten ...

ion

Work. Up

to

this

year

The Farm

Bureau

had never

offered

any

programme

of ¥Ork to its

members

other than an

Extension

prograrr.uae

1

e,nd,

of course,

it became

necess

ry

for

the

County

Agent

to

spend

quite ti a

little of

his

time with this organization.

This

practice had a tendency to create a jealous feeling on the part

of

other

farmers' organizations in the

County

·.nd

they

wondered

why

the

Cou.nty Agent would not

or could

not wo:ck with

them

as

well s.s

wi

tn

tbe

County

Farm

Bureau.

Of course

they

were

entire-ly

wrong

when they

~oncluded

tha.t

the County

Agent

would not

o ..

coulc

r)ot work

-vi

th them

but

as he

he

1

to

11)-ut

in eo mvch

time

with thP memberB of t.he Farm Bureau

i-f:

bad a tendency to·arouse

sUAJ)icion

on the part

of other farm

organizations.

•

In addition

to thit:

The

Farm Bureau had been a

n1iser-able

failure

in the

state

of

Colorado

on

account of the

fact

that it had

no

progran·Jne

of wor: other than an Extension one

and was renderjng no real service to

its

members

that they

could

not

get from the

County Agent alone and thus save

the

necessity of

payi!tg

a

membership

ee in another orge.1

iza tion.

•

Se,reral efforts

have been made

to

keep The

Ste,

te

Farm Bureau

fllive

and

functioning

~n.l

to

have

the

various

coun-ty Farm Bureaus to cooperate with thE State

Organization

but

in

each

inst8.nce a fa.ilvre

wa made.

HoweYer,

sometime in the

Spring of

this year new

officers were chosen for The State .Fa:t·m

Bureau

and a

real programme of work was outlined

in

which it

wa.s undertaken to render serv5.ce to the farmers of Colorado

in

the

wa.y

of

cooperative marketing and to organize counties or

local~

on a

corr~odity

basis. It was found that the much

needed

thing

in

Aiin.ms-

County

was the

organization of

Foul try

Growers

and Egg

Producers

into

a.

cooperative

selling

organization for

the purpose of securing a better price

for

their products and

an

effort

was made along

these lines

to r-ecure

membershi~

in

The County Farm

Bureau

vhich

~as

fairly successful from the

2.

On accotult of

the

jealousy mentioned of The County

Farm Bureau

it

aras decided that ·some other organization might

be used to more advantage as The County Extension

Organiza-tion. Of course

it

would not better the situation in the least

if

some farmers' organization

already in existence should be

used. Therefore, to get rid of all friction and jealousies,it

was

suggested that

a

County Council of Advisors be organized

and that it be composed of men and women from all communities

in the county regardless of whether or not they already

be-longed to other organizations. Thus it was hoped to be able

to work

with and

to

cooperate with every organization in the

county, even the commercial clube in the cities, for the

pro-motion of better agricultural methods resulting ·in better

agricultural crops raised on a more economical basis.The plan

was to

get the County Commissioners to endorse this County

Council

and to a.p:point such fa,rmers and farm women as members

as were recommended

by

the various comrnuni ties to be

repre-sented. These appointees were then to constitute them a

com-mittee to meet with the county Agent and to formulate with

his assistance and suggestions a County Agricultural

Pro-gramrne of work which was then to be presented to The County

Board of Commissioners for their final approval. Personally,

The County believes this to be an excellent plan and far more

likely to function than the plan

of

using one Farmers'

Organ-ization as the medium

th~ough

to do Extension ·work. Every

far-mer in the county can belong without costing him one cent and

it affords an opportunity to acquaint more people in the

coun-ty

with

what

'rhe

Count~r

Agent and The Extension Department of

The Agriculjural 5ollege are trying to do to benefit the

Farm-er. Besides the programme of work as adopted has the support

and the backing of the representative farmers in each

co~~un­

i

ty, of the

cor.:unercit-3.1 clubs in the cities and of the Boa.rd

of 6ounty Com!J1issioners and it relieves The County Agent of

any criticism for directing his work along certain lines for

he is doing just what his Advisory Council

has

mapped out for

him to

do.

Being thoroughly convinced that this plan was an

admirable one and

a 1'/0rkable

one I went to quite a number of

individual farmers with the i dea and found that

they

were very

favorable to):1it.

I

also asked a

nmaber

of

memeers

of other

Farmers Organizations their opinion of the plan and received

a.

favorable reply practically all of

them

sataing that

they

were anxious and willing to cooperate. However, when I

pre-sented

the matter to The

Cou r~y Bo~rd

of Commissioners they

were not enthused about the plan and suggested that the County

Farm Burea.u was good enough to work

through

as an Extension

Organization. As the plan was not workable

~ithout

the consent

and endorsement of The Commissioners and as I failed to secure

said. consent and endorsement

it

wa.s

necessary to abandon the

3.

It was up to me then to fall back ·upon the tried

and true

members

of The County

Farm Bureau who have

so

faith-fully carried on Extension Work in the County with the

assis-tance of The County Agent for

several years . They responded

nobly a.nd formulated practically the same programme of work

that was

used in 1922, which is as follows:

Organization

Crops

Live Stock

Rodent Pest

Control

Insect Pest

Control

a . Membership fee to be Five

Dollars .

b . Federation News to

b~

sent to all members

and to be

paid

for out

of membership

fee

if obtainable .

a. Planting more registered seed.

b. Planting legumes

for

dry

land crops.

c . More and better pastures.

d . - Treating for Smut .

a . Cooperate wi ch Pure-bred Breeders Association.

b .

Organize Boys '

.and

Girls' Clubs

c . Carry on educational campaign in feeding

balanced rations .

a . Pla.n to rid County of Prairie Dogs

a . Plan campaign

to destroy

grasshoppers .

Home Improvement

a.

Poultry

ra1s1ng

Road Work

County Fair

b.

Sewing-clothing

projects~

c .

Improvement in

household

conveniences .

a

Recommend cooperation

bet~een

the people

of

each community and county co

mni

ssioners on

a fifty- fifty basis.

b . Recommend tha.t the County Commissioners

em-ploy

a competent road engineer to plan and

to have

sup~rvisi()n

over road construction.

a. To boost

a.

County Fair and to

help

secure

ex-hi-bits

for same.

Corn..--nuni

ty

Fairs . a . To encourage holding six

Cormnuni

ty

fairs

JJL:'lrket

i

ng

a. To encourage membership in U.

s.

GreJ n

Grow-e""'s,

Inc .

b. Cooperate in buying dairy feed .

c. Encourage Vegetable marketing associations.

d. To encourage all cooperative marketing

4.

The projects were p,..esented to the farmers in the

various

communities at meetings previously arranged and it ·

was suggested that they adopt such of the projects as were

s1:i

ted to their particular needs but with the caution that

not too}'d ma.ny be- adopted

by

any one cornJnuni

ty

and only such

as they felt could and would be carried out. As the projects

were chosen the leaders were also chosen and arrangements

al-so made to secure demonstrators who would agree to try out

some new plan or to plant some new crop as an experiment to

see whether or not the new plan or the new crop would better

the farming condi tiona in that corrununi ty

By this plan some seven communities were

organi-zed with full programmes of wor for the year and some eiJht

others a.dopted. a partial programme of work . In all fifteen

communities are recognized in the county for Extension Work

and practically all of thea adopted The County Fair Project,

The Road Project, The Pest Project and all agreed to coope

-ate in cooperative marketing project.

The

Cou.nty

Farm

Bureau Executive Conuni ttee acted as

Co,lnty

Le.~ders

and the project

l~adera

in the local

communi-ties were the local leaders and it was planned to have a

num-ber of leaders' meet·ngs in which the project leaders in the

communities were to

meet

with the county project leaders and

make plans

tt')

ca.rry

~Jut

the programmes of work but these

meet-ings , only in a few instances, never materialized and :rr1uch of

the benefit of the plan was not derived. The failure of these

leaders to hold their meetings was due to weather conditione

and to working conditions and in some instances to a downright

lack of bnterest on the

p~rt

of the leaders themselves •

I

shall now take up

and

discuss each of these

pro-j

_cts .together with its subdivislons and shall make the

dis-cussion apply to the county as a whole a.nd not

by

com:11unj ties .

ORGANIZATION.

a .

:embership fee to be Five Dol Rrs . !here was no real effort

made

this

year

to secure

membership

in The County

Farrn

Bu-rea)l

except by letter

from

the secretary ,

Mr .

J. s.

Harri-son, and

to

sny the least , he and others

ere

surprised to

receive

as

m9.ny

rr1embershipr ...

by

mail as they did.

The

farmer

is ripe for some real organization that offers him some

con-structive policy and some real help to solve his problems

and , inasmuch as The Farm Bureau is doing that vey thing in

other

states, it is natural for them to hope fo-- the same

rAsult in Colorado . Then again, The Colora o State Farm

Bu-reau promised some real service this year in the

way

pfi

coop-erative marketing and began the organization in f3everal

com-murd

ties of Adams Connty of Egg Marketing Associc.:l tions

P,nd

made one membership fee cover both orhanizations . It really

looked

as they were going to get somewhere with the member-·

ship campaign with this plan but

l.~r .

W. S. Hill, the

~an

who

5.

was the moving spirit behind this

itiea

of making The Farm Bureau

a service organization, had to leave the state and the work of

putting on a campaign for members by organizing cooperative

mar-keting associations wae

negle~ted and~

great opportunity lost.

CROPS.

Planting

register~d see~.

The farmers of Adams

Count~r,

as a

rule, are sold to the idea of planting goon, certified,

reg-istered seed. The former County Agent, :Mr . Waldo Kidder, is

responsible to a very large extent for this good practice.

\Vhi

e he was eerving in Adams County a large nu..rnber of wheat

farmers were convinced that Kanred wheat was a better variety

of wheat to plant in this particular loca.li ty than any that

they had been planting. On the strength of this idea, good,

registered, Kanred seed was secured and

~own

and the results

justified their efforts for the yield was better and the crop

was more drouth and rust resisting. As a result of that

exper-iment or of thet demonstration the majority of the farmers who

grow wheat are still using the registered Kanred seed. The

County Agent

~nad

the pleasure of supplying seed to twenty five

farmers in Adams County this year.

Then again,. there is the matter of seed corn, and the

farmers are also sold on the ide4 of pure, registered seed and

re using principally Minnesota

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13

which has demonstrated

its early maturing and high yielding characteristics in this

locality end easily stands first as the best corn for this

al-titude. I am sure that the yield in wheat has

be~n

increased

at least two bushels per acre by using pure, registered

Kan-rad seed and that the yiel4 in corn has been increased at

least five bushels per acre and that means thousands of

dolj-lars to the farmers of Adams County.

There arf .. very

fevr

farmers in the County whom I have

encouraged to grov1 seed for the market for the reason that so

few of them will take the pains to plant their seed polts and

to test their seed for germination. Then

i~

we had all or too

·many trying to grow· seed for sale there would be an

oversup-pllf and probably none that would come up to the standard. Have

ther~fore

tried to limit

my

seed growers to the men who I

be-lieved would take an interest in caring for the seed plots and

in

cur~ng

the seed properly.

By

this method of elimination I

have only five farmers attempting to grow seed for sale. Have

one Boys' Corn Club, composed of five members, that I meant to

to become seed grdwers but their corn was planted too late to

mature a-nd they have no good seed for sale.

b.

PJ.antin.g_~egumes

for dry land c:r:q,;)1?..!._ As the demonstrA-tions of

last year did not have any real value for the reason that all

, the demonstration plots were destroyed

by

hail it was decided

o-6.

pinion the key to successful farming in the non-irrigated

sec-tions. Wheat alone has al ays and always will be entirelr too

risky

and

too much of a speculation for any farmer. He must

there-fore do diversified

far.mine and diversified fa ming means live

stock added to his list of :products. The successful raisinf of

live stock means that the

farmer

must grow some

feecl

rich in

pro-tein content in order to

feed

a properly balanced ration without

too much cost •. so in order to demonstrate that legume crops can

be grown

to

advantage

I

secured t,nenty

six

demonstra

to-~s

who

a-greed to so and who did sow alfalfa, sweet clover, soy beans

and cc

~

:peas. The results have been fairly satisfactory in

deiJ1-onstratin that these crops could be grovm on non-irrigated

lands but we have hot

,1a.d

time to

prove

that the crops will

last over a period of time and that they

rill

produce a

suffi-cient return. for the time and money invested.

It will

require

several years time to make this proof.

~

and better a.stur£!!.. There are trro pasture problems in

Adams County, an irrigated pasture preble and a

non-irrigat-ed pasture problem. In the non-irrigatnon-irrigat-ed sections a pasture of

. some kind

is

absolutely

necessary.

Dairy cov1s, in order to

prO-duce the best results

0

must have an abundance of succulent

feed the year around. PlentJ of feed to put in the silo

eRn

al-ways be grown on dry lands thus furnishing the succulent feed

for the winter. But the

st~er

pasture is another matter that

is of the highest importance and one that is puzzl·ng most of

the dry land farmers.However it has been found that rye can be

grovm on most of the dry land and that it makes excellent

pas-ture. It

is just a

metter

of getting the farmers to sow

i:t:

and

building

the necessary fence to inclose the pasture. It has been

clearly demonstrated

by

at least ten farmers that rye pasture

is practical and profitable and is one of the solutions of the

pasture problem in

dry

sections.

In

the irrigated sections where the price of la.nd is

very high and where the farmers hDve been growing alfalfa as

a cash crop it has been a question for discussion for a long

time whether or not a permanent, tame pasture would be

prof't-able especially those who are

enga.ged in

the Dairy

Industry.

In

order to

demonstrate

the

value of

pasture under

the above

conditions se-en men have sovm this year .. _

rton's

Past~ure

Hx-ture,

but as t1is is the first

yea~

of the expe iment, there·

are no ·igures to be had to prove or disprove the theo

b. Treatment_ for

Smu.t.

The practice for

tregtment

for Smut,

es-pecially for

Smut in

wheRt~

has pretty

generally

been adopted

in this county. Some farmers stil use blue vitriol and others

use other agents for treeting seed. I have no reports on how

m

.ny

acres of

trea

P.d seed we'e plante. prof how many

bush-els o seed werB treated but I would say that there are at the

least five hundred farmers

i

1 t.Lle

count~r

who are

treat.in sead

?.

a. Cool)erate with Pure--3red Breeders Associations. Adams County

is one

of

the best counties

f}1'

the state-from

the live stock

stan point and is coming to the ront as the second largest

center of pure-bred live stock in the state. There are two

ure-bred breeders assoc"ations in the county, one being

lo-cate at Brighton and the other at Bennett. The first of these

is not a breed

association but is composed of breeders of

all kinds of

.pur~-bred

animals. This association meets

month-ly,

usually at the me.nquet table, where interesting

discus-sions pertaining to tne pure-bred industry are heard and plans

are made to induce othera to use pure!'bred anima.ls. It .is also

a custom of thi association to hold

~n

annua sale at the

fai

grounds

in Brighton

where

good,

outstanding

animals are

offered to the h.

0

hest bidder and an effort.is always made to

have t1-le ani•ng,ls offered for se..le purchased

by

some farme

living in the county.

The other association ith headquarters at Benn tt, is

composed of breeders of Short Horn only, and is known as·The

Tri-Valley Short Horn Pura-Bred Brel3der3 Association . This

as-sociation is compo ed of some real live breeders and bids fair

to make a name for

it

self in

tltl~

1 ive stoek

1

i

::tory of Adams

County. It held one of the

most

successful sales of registered

animals in Februar ever held in the state of Colorado .

The

Bright.on

Associatio

1

is compo8.erl

of

forty members

owning two

thousand ure-bred ani 1als. The Bennett Association

is composed of fifteen members owning one hundred

anirnax~ .

b .

Organize Boys'

and Girls ' Clubs . The financial conditions for

this year were real1 y no mo-e -favorable for club

wor~.<

than

they were last ye· r . However, there

ar., always

some bankers

who have the proper vision of club work among the rural boys

and girls and who are willing to finance a live stock club

Am

gJ a to say that Adam. County is very fortunate in this re

-spect and I found that any boy or

gi~l

whose general

reputa-tion was go

d

could secure financial bac .ing for live stock

club work . ucceeded in organizing one calf club at Bennett

with five members all of whom purchased pure-bred animals, one

calf club at Henderson with two mwmbers

Yi

th grad·e calves. two

pic- clubs at Henderson with ten members a.,J of whom purchased

pure-bred Duree Jersey pigs. The e nimalA> both calves and

:pigs, were shown at the County Fair held at Brighton where

one of the

c~lves

won

~irst

in the open classes and one boy ' s

litter of pigs won th ' rd in .the Futurity contest . This litter

was

late

sho!V'n at the State Fair and won third in the

futuri-ty

there This phase of the worK

i

recognized by County

Board o"'" Commissio1ers, The Cou1ty Farm Bureau and

by

The

Pure-Bred Breeders Associations as being one of the most important

!eatures of of the Extension ' s work and all are cooperating

to the best of their abi ity to encourage club work.

a.

·c. Carr;x: on educational ca.mpai

9

n on

feJ:._din~

balanced rations._ It

was intended to work out this project by having some feeding

schools conducted in several of the communities but a failure

was made in making connection with the specialists from the

a-gricultural College,

due, however, to fault of theirs, and the

County Agent did this work with individuals who were

interest-ed in same and also the Official tester of

The

Brighton

Cow-testing Associntion talked balanced rations to all those for

v~hom

he did testing and showed them how to properly balance

rations for best results. In the east end of the County some

feed grinding demonstrations have been carried on and at the

same time balanced rations were discussed at these meetings.

The farmers. of the west end do have so much trouble in

feed-ing properly balanced rations because they have alfalfa in

abundance thus supplying their protein

f~ed.

On the dry land

farms the necessary protein is quite a problem especially if

it has to be purchased and in most cases it does.

RODENT

~EST

CONTROL.

a. Plan to rid the county of :prairie

dCUI.S

this

~C!.t•

We were

somewhat ambitious in our prairie dog eradication plans for

this year and time has shown that we planned more than could

be accomplished in the time stated. Hov;ever much progress was

made toward getting

ri~

of this little pest. Six new districts

were formed in the east end of the county and crevv leaders

appointed in each quarter of the six townships who were very

enthusiastic about eradicating the dogs, so much so that they

got busy immediately and began to wage warfare against them

with poiso.ned oats prepared

by

the deputy pest inspector in

the county Agents

o~fice.

But the exceedingly wet eather in

the spring hindered the work very rnuch until time for the

crew leaders and others to begin their farm work • In the

meantime the Deputy Pest Inspector together with a crew of

men covered the territory that had been poisoned and picked up

the strays and those dogs that come in from other places. I

would say that the County is 90% clear of these pests and in

good shape to be entirely cleaned up the coming year.

Unfortu-nately.

hoiVever, the County Commissioners, listening to the

complaint of those who do not realize the benefit of

eradica-ting the dogs, and who are urging a .reduction of taxes, have

decided to discontinue the deputy peat inspector and throw$he

matter of eradice.ting the remainder of the dogs into the hands

of the County Agent. Inasmuch as the County Agent will have

his hands full of other matters this prairie dog campaign is

likely

to be neglected and the lands probably will be

reinfest-ed with gogs in a short time. In

my

opinion the final clean up

period

i

the most important and the most difficult in the

erad-ication of' these pests and no laxness should now be shown.

9.

INSECT PEST CONTROL.

a.

Plan

ca~~i~n

to des;rol

grasshopper~.

The County Agent did

make some plans of his own and tried in every way possible to

get those interested in this campaign who mi3ht be affected

by

these pests later in the year. No response was made

un-til the grasshoppers had arrived in large numbers and, in

some instances had almost destroyed the whole crop of the

person calling for relief. Articles telling how to destroy

the pests and

urging farmers to begin at the first

appear-ance of the hoppers were rritten and published in the

week-ly

news pH:pers but did not seem to have the desired effect.

The County Agent personally mixed over a ton of poisoned

bran

and held ten demonstration s showing these present how

to

mix and scatter the poison to the best advantage. However,

it

is questionable as to whether or not much good was done

except in the cases of the small far.mer or truck growee who

usually took the trouble to follow instructions. For the

com-ing year I have

planned to have several meetings of the

farm-ers at

whi~h

there will be present some one from the College

or from The State

Dep~rtment

of Entomology to discuss these

in~ect

peGts and thus conduct

Ft

sort

of an

educational

ca ..

m-paign

bearing

on the importance

of beginning

early in the

~ame

and hope in

this manner to prepare the farmers for the

next

campaign against the pests.

H01m

IMPROVm~NT.

a. Poultry

~aisi~~

Most of the work done on this project

by

the County

A~ent

has

been in the nature of

cull~ng

and

in-struction:J

in the care of

baby

chicks.

The poultry in this

county is in

quite

a

good concii

tlon as the farmers have

al-ready realized the importance of the fe.mily flock and ita

place in

bringing about thA proper returns. It is needless

to say that when

this realization has come about then it is

that

they begin to feed better, .to house the be:bge more

com-foctably

an~

to talk

better stock. I dare say that in the

west end of Adams County around West

ni11ster a.nd

Adams

City

nen.r Denver there are some of the most up to de.te pou.J_try

raisers in the State, some of the flocks

bPing

quite larg e.

Where the real need for some service in poultry work is in

the east end in the non-irrigated sections where the flock

ha.s

not had much ·

attention

and

the

possibilities of poultT"'J

raising are not fully understood. Some work has been done in

feeding and housing and

quite a bit of culling work.

Practi-cally ever poultry keeper is either doing culling himself or

l~tving

it

done and most often

by

the county Agent. In

vain

have I tried to

tell them that I am not supposed to do

indi-vidual

culling but only demonstra.tiona.l work.

10.

b.

Sewing-'Jlothing

Pro,ject~.

This project

has

been

sadly

neglect-ed in Adams County for the simple

reason

that the County A

6

ent

did not find time to do it. Most of the adult work in thia

pro-ject is

no

being done by the

various

womens' clubs in the

Coun-ty and it looked as id quite a lot of

eff

t

would be necessary

to change them into a ne'l organization.

wever, I was

success-ful in organizing

two

junior clubs in

t:~o

communities that

have

never before done any extension work, one at

Westminster~

com-posed

of

twanty

two

girls ranging from eleven to eighteen years

of a e. The other

club

awe organized at Brighton and was

com-posed of ten

members.

Both

clubs did

exce

lent

work

and

both of

them hBd real

lendershi

Am

positive that r'lith

this

begin-~_ing

the

ice

has

been broken

1n

these corrt.'11Uni ties

and

sor-1e

very

in-tPrasting and beneficial work

can

be

done

the COl ing year.

~

e wa.s also some work

done on

Presnrvation of Food

in

'est~~~Etter.

A canning club wa orgaPized thP.re with

eight

members and Miss

Washin ...

.,ton and

Miss Smith both rendered

val-uable

assistance

in training demonstration

teams

and

in

in-structing the club members hovv to cgn by the " Cold Pack "

method.

This

work was

nev7 in

this

cor.unurl.i.

ty

and

the

encourage-ing part of it was that they were su:ficiently interested

to

ask that it

be

cont1nued the coming year.

ROAD WORK.

a.

Recommend the.t The Commissioners cooperate

with

the neonle

on a __ fi±:_ty-fifty basis in

:r:2..~<!JY

.. orh This

recom-mendation has been

car-ri~d

out in th( 0ounty and has

p:rov~d

quite satisfactory to all concerned. I am sure that Adams

%

County has as

good

roads, taken as a

whole,

as any other

coun-ty in the State. The

main

travelled

roads

are always in

good

condition but the cross roads are not quite

so

goos, However

the above mentioned cooperation is

r~pidly

. olving the

prob-lem of

poo~

croPs

roads.

b. :::- eco:mmend

that

The

Cour:.ty Cornmi

ssioners

employ a co:mpetent

ro d engineer to plan and to have

supervis~on

over

road

con-struction

in

the

coull~.Y_!_

This

Yias

done. last ..

rear

and is

still

being

done.

-COM1JIUNI Y FAIRS.

a • . Encourage

hold.ing

_at

Comr~t!_ni

t;y:

F~_ir_s_._

A

committee

from The

County Farm BureB.u vi::-·

"ted

The

Board of County

Co~n­

missioners to present the matter of helping to finance

11.

It was argued that in order to put on a real worth while

County

.!:!air with a good educ.st'onal

m±ri

exhibit of

agricul-tural

nroducts that

it would be necessary to begin with the

communi

ties and hold some rea community fairs. The

Corrunission-ers readily agreed to this idea and offered to furnish to each

community as

much cash with which to promote their fairs a.s

the

community

would raise for itself with a

maxirnum

amount,

however,

of

One Hundred Dollars, that the County voul d fur"''li '"3h any given

community.

Four communj. t.ies too advantage of this offe of the

Co~ ~ i

:3sioners

and each held a splendid fair which was a

suc-cess from every Rtandpoint. Only

one

of these

cornrauni:Cies

had

ever had a fair before but all the people in all of them were

most

enthusiastic

about holding another fair next year.

In order to be able to take advantage of the

Commission-ers'

offer each community

ha.d

to agree to make an exhibit at

the county fair to be held later.

COUlTY FAIR.

a . To boost _Cou11ty

~a:_ir

and _to

heJ~_J5e.£.,UI:_Lsxhi_e.:i:ts

for

s_a~.

The County

Farrn

Bureau

did boost for a county fair and were

a-ble to name the manager for same. The County ],air was a huge

success in every way except financially. It was said to be the

best county fair in the state

by

many

who had attended most of

the othP.r county fairs, ·but too much money was

spent

on races

and other forms of entertainment and the county had quite

q

deficit to make good.

MARKETTNG.

a. To furnish all available information on Cooperative

Market-_ipg to those contemplr:tting t:o.1."'ming market· n_.c associations .

b.

To. co.opera

tEt

in . .J2..urchas_tn

dairy fe_ed. Nothing done.

c. To

encour~~rw_etable gr~_r~t_Q_~ket

C09Jl_e_Lati_vel:l,.

Con-ditions

in Adams County are very favorable for marketing all

vegetables grown except cabbage. A cannin factory and a

pick-le factory furnish a local market for

all

vegetables but

cab-bage and that is grown in such large quantities that it has to

be shi.ped . Caggage groiVers are organized locally and have

se-cur~d

good results.

d. To encourage all cooperative associations that seem worthy

and for

which there is a need. Two such organizations have

s-prur7g up in theStat-e this year . They are The

Colorado

Dai-rymens' Association, organized for the

purpose

of

sellin~

milk

and dairy products cooperatively . The other is The Colorado

Ex-t

12.

change

organized

for

the

purpose

o.f

asai .·ti:ng the

poultry

grow-ers and egg producgrow-ers to

find a better market for their eggs and

pou.l

try.

The

plan was to

organ.ize

as

mt:tny

local

organizationa

as

possible near

Denver

having the

individus.l

members sign a

corJ-tract to deliv€r all their eggs a.nd poultry to the Exchange with

headquarter~

in Denver. This Exchange and

these

locals

were

or-ganized

under the 0olorado Cooperative 1\lfarketing· Law ju.st

re-cently passed and

looks

as

if

it is going to make

good.

The

Aa-socia tion has been incorpore.ted, the necessa.ry money to finance

i.t

has been raised,

quarters

have been

rented

in Denver

end

the

members ha.ve been notified. to begin shipping eggs on

the first

Iton

rJY

in Dec em be

:r·.

In

conclu~?ion

I desi:r e to

say

tha.t I have

had

at all

times

whi-le j.n Adams

County

the full

cooperation

of Tht3

Board

of

County

Commi~H3ior

.. ers, Tho County Farm Burea.u c:tnd The

Exten-sion Department of The Colorado Agricultural

College and I am

Form No. 285 January 1, 1923

COOPERATIVE EXTENSION WORK IN AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS

U. S. Department of Agriculture and State Agricultural Colleges

Cooperating

States Relations Service, Office of Cooperative Extension Work,

Washington, D. C.

ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNTY EXTENSION WORKERS

This report form is to be used by county extension agents, such as county agricultural agent, home

demonstration agent, club agent, negro agent, etc., reporting on their respective lines of work.

Stale __ _

__ ________ __________________ ________________________

County __

~--

_______

---______ :Z:lX __

~--

County

--~---Agent.

(~amc)M._ ~~ (Tit~

_______ ____________________ } __________

-jf:L_~---

lo

---~----~---'

19 2 3.

If agent has not been employed entire year, indicate exact period. Agents resigning during the

year should make out this report before quitting the service.

Approv-ed:

---~--:

________________ _

f cr ~District S11,pervisor.

Date

---Extension Director. 1. I

2

SUGGESTIONS RELATIVE TO THE PREPARATION bF THE COUNTY EXTENSION AGENT'S ANNUAL REPORT •

. The annual report should be a review, analysis, interpretation, and presentation to the people of

the county, the State,' and the Nation of the sum total of the extension activities in each county for the

year and the results secured (including assistance rendered by subject-matter specialists). Tlie making

of such a report is of great value to the county extension agent and the county people in showing the

progress made during the year as a basis for future plans. It is of vital concern also to the State and

Nation as a measure of rural progress and a basis for intelligent legislation and financial support. This

blank form covers simply the statistical phases of the report, and should be supplemented by a full

report in narrative form.

NARRATIVE SUMMARY.

The narrative report should be a statement in orderly fashion and arranged under appropriate

subheadings, of the work done, methods used, and results secured under each project, as well as of the

general work accomplished. Every statement should be clear-cut, concise, forceful, and, where

pos-sible, reinforced with ample data from the statistical summary. In the preparation of the part of the

report relative to each project, the results reported in the statistical summary for the project should

be analyzed, conclusions drawn, and recommendations made. The report may well be illustrated with

photographs, maps, diagrams, blue prints, or copies of charts and other forms used in demonstration

work. Full credit should be given to all cooperating agencies. The lines should be single-spaced, with

double space between the paragraphs, and reasonably good margins left. The pages should be numbered

in

consecutive order.

The following outline is suggestive of how the narrative report may be clearly and systematically

presented:

SUGGESTIVE OUTLINE OF ANNUAL NARRATIVE REPORT.

I. Cover and title page. II. Table of contents.

III. Status of county extension organization. (1) Form of organization-distinctive features.

(2) Function of local people, committees, or project leaders in developing the program of work. (3) General policies, including relationships to other organizations.

IV. Program of work, goals established, methods employed and results achieved. (1) Factors considered and methods used in determining program of work. (2) Project activities and results.

(a) Soils.

(b) Farm crops }

(c) Horticulture (including diseases and insects). ( d:) Forestry

(e) Animal husbandry}

(f) Dairy husbandry (including diseases and pests). (g) Poultry husbandry

(h) Rural engineering.

(i) Rodents, predatory animals, and birds.

(J') Agricultural economics-including farm management, marketing, etc.

(k) Foods and nutrition.

(l) Clothing and millinery. (m) Home health and sanitation.

(n) Household management and home furnishings.

(o) Community activities-other than those included under subject-matter headings.

(p) Miscellaneous.

V. Outlook and recommendations, including suggestive program of work for next year.

VI. Summary of activities and accomplishments, preferably of one or two typewritten pages only, placed at the beginning or end of the narrative report.

3

STATISTICAL SUMMARY.

To supplement the narrative part of the report, and in order that comparable State and National

summaries n1ay be made, it is necessary to include a statistical summary of the work in each county.

The following form has been prepared to insure uniformity of reporting. In addition to the questions

asked under each subdivision of the report, space is provided to add further data if it is desired. The

statistical summary will grow naturally out of the field and office records.

DEFINITIONS OF TERMS UsED IN Tms REPORT. 1. A PROGRAM OF WORK is a definitely outlined plan for extension work.

2. A PROJECT is a definite, systematic, organized plan for carrying out some phase of the extension program of work, providing for what is to be done, how much, when, where, and by whom.

3. MisCELLANEous woRK includes work which has not yet become a regular part of the program of work-work other than project work.

4. A DEMONSTRATION is an example designed to show the practical application of an established fact. Demonstrations may

be of methods or of results. •

Under method demonstrations include lecture demonstrations, practicums, etc., such as demonstrations of canning methods, home-mixing fertilizers, poultry culling, dress-form making, and the like, all involving short periods of time.

Under result demonstrations include demonstrations in which a substantial period of time is involved, records of results kept, and comparisons made, as in a child-feeding demonstration, corn-culture demonstration, pasture-improvement demon-stration, and the like.

5. A DEMONSTRATOR is an adult or junior who, under the direction of the extension service, undertakes to show in his community by example the practical application of an established fact, and who keeps records and reports on the same.

6. A coMMUNITY, for the purposes of this report, may be any one of the several units into which the county is divided for pur-poses of conducting organized extension work.

7. A PROJECT LEADER OR LOCAL LEADER is a person, selected because of his or her special interest and fitness, who functions in advancing some phase of the local program of extension work.

8. A STANDARD CLUB (boys' and girls') is one in which certain State or National standards for club organization andprocedure are met.

9. A coMMUNITY CLUB (boys' and girls') is a club in which the classified clubs, such as ·corn, pig, canning, poultry, etc., are feder-ated into one large community club.

10. AN OFFICE CALL is a visit or a telephone call by a farmer, or other person, seeking agricultural or home economics information, as a result of which some definite assistance or information is given.

11. A DEMONSTRATION MEETING is a meeting held to start, inspect, or further a demonstration.

12. A TRAINING MEETING is a meeting at which project leaders or local leaders are trained to carry on extension activities in their respective communities.

13. A FARM VISIT is a call at a farm by the agent at which some definite information is given or concrete plan of work outlined, or some valuable information obtained from the farmer regarding his work, or the better practice prevailing in his neighbor-hood.

14. A HOME VISIT is a call at a home by the agent at which some definite information is given or concrete plan of work outlined, or some valuable information obtained from the farm woman regarding her work, or the better practice prevailing in her neighborhood.

15. DAYS IN OFFICE should include time spent by the county agent in his office, at county agent conferences, and any other work directly related to office administration.

16. DAYS IN FIELD should include all days spent on official duty other than those spent in office. 17. LETTERS WRITTEN should include all single letters on official business.

18. A FARMERS' INSTITUTE is one of a series of meetings of one to two days' duration, arranged by a central State farmers' institute agency, at which agricultural and home economics problems are discussed, usually by outside speakers employed for the purpose.

19. AN EXTENSION OR MOY ABLE scrrooL is an itinerant school usually of two to six days' duration where practical but systematic instruction is given to persons not resident at the college. A SHORT couRsE differs from an extension school in that it is held at the college and usually for a longer period of time.

4

GENERAL ACTIVITIES.

Report only results of extension activities that are supported by records.

1.

La:~~~~;~~)~:~~~~-~-~e~~-~o~ Ml~5!~~~~~;:~;;~-~:~

2. Total number of communities in county recognized for extension work_________________________________ _ _____

j_~

2

3 3.

N~~~::s o~:d~:~~!t~~~~~r:~~~~~~~~~~~-~~~-~~~~~~~~~-~~:~-~~~~~~~~~~~-~~-~~~-~~~~-=-~~~~~s~~~

---~-4. Number

of~C~)luA~l~ ~

0

~~~~~-~-~~~~~-~-~~~~~:~~~~~~-~~:~~~-~~~~~~~~~-~~_:~~i-~~~-~~~~~~ ----~_j_j_~}

pl·ogram (b) Junior

work_---~---~---~--·---

_____

jfJ___

4

5. What is the name of the county. organization (if any) promoting extension

work~~-~---

5 6. Number of adult clubs, if any, organized for promoting extension work _______________________________

~--

6 7. Membership in county extension organizations, including adult clubs, if any, organized for promoting

extension work---

--1-fh __ _

7 8. Total number of farm visits made on extension work ________________________________________________ _ -~/rD_

__ _

₈ 9. Number of different farms visited __________________________________________________________________ _

_ _J_th_ __ _

₉ 10. Total number of home visits made on extension work _______________________________________________ _

-~J!:t)_____

10 11. Number of differ:ent homes visited _________________________________________________________________ _

_ ;__n ___

n

12. Number of office calls* relating to extension work ___________________________________________________ _

_{__J-_12_~---}

₁₂ 13. Number of days agent sp~nt in office---~---

_ ____ zz.___

13 14. Number of days spent in :field---

_j_.2_f___

14 15. Number of individual letters written _______________________________________________________________ _

_3--~---

₁₅ 16. Number of different circular letters prepared and sent out ___________________________________________ _

_---~----

₁₆ 17. Total number of copies of such circular letters ______________________________________________________ _ ---~--- 17 18. Number of extension articles written by agent and published in local papers ___________________________ _

_ __

,.;j_~---

18 19. Number of community buildings established _______________________________________________________ _ _{---·--- 19} 20. Number of rest rooms provided for use of rural people ______________________________________________ _

21. Number of fairs at which extension exhibits were made _____________________________________________ _

_ _____ [i;___

20 21

22. Training meetings* held lor localleaders___ ___

l

~:;

:

:::::~~~~:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=

=:=:=:=

23. Demonstration meetings held---{( a) Number _________________________________________ _ (b) Attendance ______________________________________ _

24. Farmers' institutes* held---{(a)

Number---~- ~----=:

__ --_-_-__ --_-_}

24

(b)

Attendance---~---25. Extension schools* and short courses held ______ l(a) Number.__________________________________________

~=~=~=~=-_-_}

25

(b) Attendance ______________________________________ _

.,.

5

26. Junior club encampments

a~d

rallies

held---{~:; :::::~~~~~-:=~-::~:~~::=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=·=:=:=

(c) Total attendance _________________________________ _ 27. Other extension meetings attended and not previously reported1(a) Number ___________________________ _

(b) Attendance ______________ .:._ _________ _ 28. Number of meetings at which were shown _________________ _

{

(a) Lantern slides---(b) Motion pictures ____________________ _ 29. Number of boys' and girls'

clubs---30. Number of above clubs which are standard* clubs __________________________________________________ _

31. Number of above clubs which are community* clubs___________________________________________________ --- 31

{(a) Boys_______________________________________________

---~----~-~---~---~---~

32 32. Number of members enrolled, all clubs ______ (b) Girls ________________________________________________ _

. {(a) Boys_______________________________________________

---~-~---~

33

33. Number of members completingt --- (b) Girls_______________________________________________ ....kQ

{

(a) Boys_______________________________________________

---~---~

34. Number of demonstration teams trained______ (b)

Girls---~--

34

35. Number of members continuing in club work________________________________________________________

---~~-

35

(a) One

year---{~~; :~:=~:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=·=:=:=:=:=:=·=:=:=·=:=:=:=:=:=:=

(b) Tvro

years.---1~~;

::::::=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=

(c) Three yeius.---1

~~;

::::

:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:= =:=:= =:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=

(d) Four years.---{

~~; :~:

:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=:=

---36. Number entering college this year as result of club work_______________________________________________

~=~=~=~~=

36 37. Number of junior judging teams trained--- _______

k_

37

[Use space below to include other important data.]

.

.

---

---

---*See definition on page 3. _t ·

If tho club project involves more than one year's work, "members completing" shoulU. include those who have satlstactorily finished the work outlined

PROGRAM SUMMARY.

List below information OJ!. each project of the program. of work for the year. (If an assistant agent has been employed during the year, include his or her time with that of the agent.)

Title of project. (Illustrative entry.) Number of com-munities partici-pating. Voluntary leaders. Number

assisting. assistance _rendered. Days

Days Days agent specialists worked

helped. (office and field).

Meetings at demonstrations. Other meetin~s in relation

Number Number to pro ects.

of method* of result*

1----,.---demon-

demon-strations. demon-strations. Number. Attendance. Number. Attendance.

P~ ---~(--- 6 7 15 B U 3 6 8 134 3

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Miscellaneous

t ---:--- __

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-~-~---- -~--m_

Days' leave---

_::t_!f __

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ToTAL ______________________________________________ --- --- ---~---_________________________________________________________________________________________ _

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SOILS.

Report only results of extension activities that are supported by record3.

38. Number of result demonstrations started or under way--- --- 38 39. Number of such demonstrations completed or carried through the year--- --- 39 40. Number of acres involved in these completed demonstrations·--- --- 40 41. Total* number of farms in1luenced by extension work to change practices relative to soil management

(inc! ude demonstrators)--- ·--- 41 42. Acres involved in preceding question·--- --- 42 43. Number of farms following advice in the use of commercial fertilizer.___________________________________________________ --- 43 44. Acres involved in preceding question·---:--- ____________ ______ 44 45. Number of farms home-mixing fertilizers according to ad vice·---:--- --- 45 46. Tons of fertilizer so mixed·--- --- 46 47. Number of farms taking better care of farm manures·--- --- 47 48. Number of farms using lime or limestone according to ad vice_______________________________________________________________ --- _ _____ 48 49. Tons of lime or limestone so used·--- --- 49 50. Number of farms plowing under cover or other green manure crops for soil improvement according to advice

51. Acres of cover and green manure crops so plowed

under·---[Use space below to include other important data relating to soils.]

50

51

---~;..--- ---~;..---~;..---.!---~;..---~;..---~;..---~;..--- ---.!---*This question includes the farms listed under questions.43, 45, 47, 48, and 50, but does not necessarily equal the total of these questions since not all soil practices that might be included in question 41 are listed and since one farm might adopt two or more new practices. This is also true of similar questions through-out this report.

8

CEREALS.

Report only results of extension activities that are supported by records.

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)

1-

---~~]::.-

---Item.

Com. Wheat. Oats. Rye. Barley.

-52. Number of adult result demonstrations tf)

5

j {)

52

started or under way ---~--- ---··-- __________________ --- _________________ _

53. Number of such adult demonstrations 53

~~~~~~-t-~~--~-~--~-~~~~~~--:~~~-~~~--:~~-- ----~--~=---

____ } __ ()_ ______

---54.

Ac~:{:a~i~~=~~~-~~~-~-~~~~~~-~~-~~~--- j~

_

_6 __

Q ____

.J_it?_O__a____ __________________ __________________ __________________ __________________

54 55.

In~f~:eJu~~~;~:[e;~:a~tic~~~~~~~~----5-~----~~---~-__1~~---

--- __________________

55 56. Number of boys' and girls' club; _______________

_j_:.::··----r·· ----

---+ ---____

L ___ ---,..

56 57. Number of members

{(a)

Boys _________

6_ _________

1

__________________ 1

. __________________ --- --- --- ) .

enrolled_______________________ 57

58. Number of. members {;:;

;:~:::

:::::6:::::

::r:: : :::::: ::::: :::::::::::.::: :::::::::::::::::

::~:::::::::::::·

::::::::::::::::::

j

completmg____________________ 58

· (b) Girls _________________________________________________________

---59. Number of acre.s grown by club mem-

j'

~

.

bers completing _____ --- ___ .a:__l) _______ ____________________________________ ---60. Total yield of cereals grown by club

a

l"r'7n'\

members ---.:;_V._'!. -"--- ____________________________________

---61. Total value of cereals grown by club

members ---

~~~--

$_______________ $_______________ $_______________ $_______________ $ ______________ _ 62. Total cost of cereals grown by club

members --- $ .

.M.l.~--

$_______________ $_______________ $_______________ $_______________ $ ______________ _ 63. Totalt number of farms influenced by

adult or junior extension work to adopt better practices relative to the

growing of cereals (include demon- ll ~

strators) ---_ ----~_/,!_ _____________________________________________________________________________

---64. Acres of cereals involved in question 63.

/--/r1r1)_ _____ __________________

---65. Number of farms planting selected or

11

6

·

improved seed_---~---_________________________ --- __________________ --- _________________ _

66. Number of farms growing selected or

6-improved seed for sale _____________________ ---~--__________________ ---67. Number of farms testing seed for germi- /

D ·

nation___________________________________________ _____ _ _________________________________________________ --- ___________________________________ _

·~

68. Number of farms treating seed grain for A fJ

A

11M

smut---

---~-

__

(__~[~

__________________ --- --- ---·---[Use space below to include other

important data relating to ce-reals.] ·

::::·_::::·:·::_~~:-::::::::::

::: :· :::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::·:::::::::: 1:::::::::::::: : : :::::::::::::·:;:: :::: ::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::

*Indicate crop by name.

t

See footnote on page 7.

59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68