COOPERATIVE EXTENS ON
VORK
IN
AGRICULTURE
A..1ID HOME EIO
OMIC
S
.
STATE AGRICt:LTURAL COLLEGE OF COLORADO
,
U
.
S. DEPART
~OF AGRI0ULTURE
AND
DOUGLAS COUNTY COOPER TIMG
.
ANlnTAL REPORT OF COUNTY
AGENT
ORK
.
December
1
,
1923 to
November
29, 1924,
inolusive
.
AllMrYAL
P.EPO
T II
EX
.
Page
•
.Agricultural Resouroe
of
Douglas
County
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1.
Brief
History
of
County Agent
W
ork
in
Douglas
county..
•
2.
Summa
y
of
W
or
k
from Dee. 1st,
1923
to Mo-eember
29~h,
.
1924.
tL,
cneral
Summc.iry
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11.
Tentati~e
Pro ram
of
WoTk
for
1925 •
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17.
Statistical Re~ort Summary
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COOPER
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TIVE
EXTE]$I0N
ORK
IN
A
GRICULTURE
A
ND HO~ ECO
mMIC s
.
STATE O• COLORADO
.
RESOURCES OF
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DOUGLAS
COUNTY
.
COLORADO
.
1924
.
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n square
m
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les
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a
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Grazing l
nd
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Dr
y
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10
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221
278
,
258
86
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92
1
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94
1
o
,
S69
Natural
hey
l
and
, a
cres
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E
l
evation
o
f farm
lands
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Total population
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?lumber
of farmers
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Aver ge iz
of
farms
,
ao
a
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Tax
v
aluation
of
County
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.
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6
,
500
to
7
,
660
t~
5
,
51
7
I
mportant
Corn
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Hay
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rib.e
a
t
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at
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R7e
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crops
,
1924
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Aorea
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4
29
7 4
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29
11,
215
,
526
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16
,
840
Grain Sorghums
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81
4
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'1
2
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23
0
Potatoes
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5
,
298
Sudan
Grass
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7,
850
Bar
l
ey
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1
,
938
Number
of
Li
vestock
, 1
~24
.
Range Catt
l
e
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Dairy Ca
t
tle
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H
o
gs
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Poul
try
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H
o
rses
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She
e
p
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Bes
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increase
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deoress
e
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11.,ao
5
,
032
2
,
23
7
2
,
064
2
,
093
1.
238
89
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ove
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r
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e A
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or's re
p
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of
COUNTY G · NT
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no •
Lot).,.,
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.
,
1917.
the
fir
t
Oovnty
nt
w
s
plao
·
ed
in
tt
:.
1
s
C
o
unty
by
the
"'xteneion SerTioe
tor
pa.l't
tiane
work
,
ortly
ter
this•
ai-x-an
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ts
r
...
mad.
r1he:..
by
th
ave
is
enti
·
tim to
t
-n
on orlq
i
th th
x
e
tion
o
o
t
l
p
tim
,h
7
a
f
191
nd thew
nt
rot
1919.
r
a
b
en
an
E
tanaion
A
en
·
t in
th
Oounty
ell ·,
he
·t
i
e.
OO!lVi
a
1
nd
educ
tiw
th
rmer
It
ye
r.
I
th
-2-,I
The dairy and
·
livestock industries of
t
he
Coun ~
y
have
had
spasmodic help from time to time but
noth~ng
has been
aooomplished as yet which
can be
oonstdered
as
being of a
permanent nature
.
The principal
work
which
FJas
taken
up was a
Oow
·
Testing
Ass
.
ociation for dairy
improvement
which
met
with a
sad
misfortune
.
due to the indisoret methods used
by
the last
Cow Tes tor, c
usin
a breed
fi
ht
among
the de.iryment of
the
County. In
the
livestock
work
.
disease
eradication
and general
feeding problems have been taken up. At the present time the
marketing side
of
the
livestock
game has been
taken
up from the
gener.::..l
gra.din
standpoint
and
this
was
started this
fall with
a
gradinst
demonstr
a
tion
given
at
one of the lar est
cattle
r
n
nches
in
the County
.
·
Boys
and girls
.
club ork in
Douglas
County started
,
i
th
lots of enthusiasm
a.nd
from reports
it
seems that there was
promise
.
of
havirui
some
very
successful
work
but in
the
second
and
third
years nttmbers o:f' bop:s and
girls
were
started in on
work
dnd
then the
ork ias
not
carried to
a
completion. This
has
made
the
"Ork
very difficu
l
t in
the last
two years
bec
au
se
the
boys
and ~i
"
:l
s
became
so
disoouraged
that their
youn
er brothers
and sisters did not
have the
interest
nor
the
backina
of the
parents
to even
start
the
work at
this tine. !his year
we
had
26 club
members.
20 of
,vhom
eompleted
the
vi>rk.
In
the general
Mork
o
f
the
County, the
work
carried on
~a
of
a
miscellaneous character
and
had to follow u
p
from yeEir
to year.
'
Some very
good ,mrk
has been done in
c~op
s
am
poultry
and
prevention of
diseases
in
a
ll lines
of
livestock
but has not
been
correlated 1n
such a
manner
as
to be
able
to
make
plans and programs which will
lead to
r1ard
the
adoption
by
general public
.
In
the
poultry
this
ffOrk
in
the
last year
was
ta
k
en up through the demonstration farm
method and some
real
re-sults
were
obtained.
Through
public and
personal
aont
a
ot
aon:e
of
the disease prevention
method are gr
_.d
ually being tak.en up
throttcrhout
the
Oounty.
The
1.vo
rk
1"'
hich perh ps has
suffered the
most
from
.
e
Extension
ervice
standpoint
is that
am
ong the
women
.
So
e
very -
:
ood
:1
ork
vas
ta
k
en up
at
the beginning of the
Extension
Service in DouRla County but because of laok
of
de-finite
information,
bein left, s the ohan es
were
made
throu~h-out the past years. the
work wa.s
not
continued
and
consequently
the omen of the
County do not have the oon:fidence in the
Ex-tension Servio
that must be had to obtain real results.
The County Fair in the past few years has made
per
-haps
as
big a
stride
for
real
future
poasibl:lities a
,
s
sny
other
project
in the
Extension
program. In 1920 from
e:porta
it
appears
that the
people
ere not intere ted
..
in the exhibit
side
-3-of the Fair. Some very
good
pioneer
·
ork was done at this
time and has been bringing
ees
ults
the la.st three 7ears. This
last year e had
larger
and better exhibi'ts than has ever been
sho
.
wn at
the
County
Fair. i'he people
ar
beginning
to
have
a
real interest
and are
a.eking
quest
ions
tba
t
show
the
Fair
is
really havi:og results. The·
exhibits have grown
.
to
such an
ex-tent that
last
year
it
waa
neeessary to limit the exhibits to
"Douglas County
produ.ot
·
s
only.
The Extension Work
in
Douglas County has at
the
present time the brightest future that
it
has probably
9Ver
had
in
the
history
of
Extension
v.rork
in
this State.
!here
is
a
real interest awakening
which
,
1£ used properly bl" -getting the
projects across
which
Douglas County is most in need
of,
will
mean
not
only
a
future for
Exten.sion
Service but
a
bigger·
fut-ure
for
Douglas
County agriculture
and livestooy· itself.
-4-SUM.MARY O
.
COUNr.,Y EX~
~
rs
ION
1·
10RK
IM
D'')U
QL
AS
COUNTY
from
DEC
.. r'iBER
let,
1923
te
J"O
~¥
iBER
29th• 1924
ORGA I~ATION!
The or anization work done in the County consisted
mostly of
orkin~
with the organizations all ready established
in County-,
as
there a.re already too many
organization
s
·
to have
any real results
with
new organizations.
The new
·
orga.niz
,
ation
work
which
\Vas
started
consisted
o
.
f Junior olub organizations a.nd of
Dairy
Improvement
o:rganiza.tio
.
with
one
new
Women6
'
Club for carrying on extension
work
.
The
work
all carried throuP,"h
t
-
he year very
aatisfact
-orly
except
the
dairy
work
;
the
summer
rush
.
and
a
deflatecl
pric
for
milk
caused the men to loose interest
and
v
ork
ru
s been
at a
standstill.
·
:for several
months.
(The results of
ork
will
be
t
L
en
up
in
another
part of report.)
The
'i~,ork
in the County this year
was
taken
up
under
:he
folio
~
inc,
he
c:i.
dS
and
will
be
explained in
full
under
those
topics.
1. Crops
•
.
2. Livestock.
3. Pesta.
4.
Home
Work.
5. Poul
try.
6. Fair.
Work
of
a
definite nature
still
is
slow.
The times of unrest
and
other disturbing
£
oto-rs
have
made
the
work
exce-ptionall7
hard.
Ho
·
wever
,
this is
gra.dul.lly
smoothin~
over
and prospects
for this
next year
are far from
as
dark as
last
year.
All
of
illork
this
year in County was
very
badly
hampered
by
the
lon~
drout~
-5-CRO
PS
:
In
the
oertified seed
r,r
ork
in
the
County
this ye r.
seven
men
ere
secured
to
~et
better seed corn; of these seven men
none
had
their
seed certified bu
t
one
selected seed..
for next
ye
'j.
r. Two 6ther men
€:trew
White
Australian
corn
seed
..
uw~er
reg-istered
seed
regulations
and made
special
seleotion of seed for
next year. The only other
work
doBll
in
the
seed
oertifio
ation
or better seed work was the workiDR
rs;rith one certified seed
gro
er of
Minn
.
13
ana
the
securing
of
a
m
:-.
n to grow
pure
Girka
wheat.
LEGU
i!ES
:
Legumes
are
probably one of
the
most needed crops in
Douglas County. This
work
was
started
by
securin~
enou~h
seed
for two or
more
~
ores for nine men in various communities of the
County.
Thie
work was
hampered a grea
t
deal because of the
long
drouth th
~
t occured
h
ere this summer.
Only
one
of farmers
was
able
to ~et
s~ed back from
plantin~
.
However. the farmers
still
believe
that there is some
possibility
of
getting
results
from
field
peas
in
this
ColUlty
and
we
are
plannin on tryin
~
peas
again
next
year.
PASTURES
:
~ t u r e
work
while checked to
some
extent because of
the
drouth
,
gave
some
ver
l
good
results. One man
put
in
seven-teen
,J..
Ore
;:;
of rye
pasture
,
carried 25 cows
for
six
weeks
,
day
. and
ni~ht.
and
'
hen
carried
same number of cows
for
th
.
ee
weeks
longer just at
night. During the
first six
weeks the
cows
gained
25% in
milk
flow over
what
they were
givinr
on
native
pastures
.
Another
farmer planted seventy aores of rye
pasture and
by
allowing
cattle
to
range over
this
pasture
and
also over
his
320
acres
of
native
pastu
e,where he had in
p
evious years
only
been
able to oarry 40 head.
he.
r nan
average
of 82
head
on this
whole
pasture and
n·s
ture was in better shape this
fall
than last.
Some
of
.,h
e
other men,
however,
did
not have aich
good
re-sults
bec~use of
Q'.'ettirut
pas
tu
.
res seeded
a
'
11
ttle too
latv·
Seed
used in
t~ese
demonstr tions
was
of the Petkus or Rosen
v
a
riety, none of the
oo
rm
on
rye
bein
rr
11
sed.
·
One farmer planted rye pasture~ yea~s ago. He used this
pasture for t,,o
years and
this
year took the cattle off early in
-6-1
•
CROPS~o
ntinued
•
. / ' r n
a
field
-';
est of
Coioeas Ba
"
ley
there
were two
acres
of
C.oloess
seed
p
l
a
nted
besides a
field
of 55 ~ores of Oderb
u
~
er Barley
.
Both
ff..elds
w
ere
treated
exactly
the
s
.
me
and
;neither
fiela
.
'·
ad
any
rain
for
97
days
.
The
Oolces
s y
ielded
l 7t
bushels
pe
r ~
ere
and
off
the
55
ac1·es
the spring
and
harvested stx
bushels of
grain
to the a.ore.
Tnis
is of course an unusual circumstance and could not be
.
recommended
althou~h
it shows
the
hardiness and
possibilities we have in rye
for
pastures.
·
Rye
pastures have come to stay and spring planting
is ::provin
.P'
the best
;
good
results are beinO' obtained from fall
pl
~
nting but the pasturin~ must be
1atched
very
carefully
to
pre-vent the rye from beardin~ out. If the rye beards out
it
very
na-turally outs
the va
.1-
ue
of pasture.
·
LIVESTOCK:
DAIRY:
In
the
dairy work a
n
attempt as made at the first of the
ye-r
to
get
a
number of
farmers to keep records on their dairy
cows and to
have
a test made eaoh month on each cow, thus
ryiving
informa.tio
ri
hich
would
give
each man eomethin
,
by
which
to weed
out
the "boar
c
er" cow.
At
first
this ork progressed very
Tlioely
but
as
the
spring and si.unmer work came on, very few men actually kept
it
up
a
nd
nine
disposed of poor cows as they felt
perhaps feeding had a
good
deal to do
with the
lack of milk flow.
The sudden drop in
prices
of
butter£at
also
had considerable influence on lack
of
in-terest. Another f9rotor probably accounting for
.
lo
·,.r
erin!"
of
interest
was
that
the County Agent was unable
to
devote
as
much time in
summer
in
en other
projects
ere bein~ started and
followed
up.
BE"EF
,
The
production of beef cattle is
one
of the main
indus-tries in Douglas County. The analyzing of this work and finding
out what is needed most ia still in
progress
,
two
proje
cts
have been
quite
definitely decided upon.
First,
better pasture management
and second
,
grading of
cattle
for sale
and
:producing better
grade
of feeder cattle.
A
third
pro
.
.!eot
has
possibilities
and that is
the
direct
sale of
feeder
cattle to
the feedmen
in the East.
Along the line of
pasture
management nothing has been
actually accomplished
up
to the present time.
Gr
~d
ing
work
was started
the
first of November
vhen
Mr.
·
wa:tlaoe,
u. s.
D. A •• and Professor B'airban::s, Livestoo Specialist
of the Colle~e, gave
a
cattle
grading
demonstration
at one of the
larger
cattle ranches. This meetin
was
a
County
wide
meeting
and
mu.oh interest
was
shown.
Prospects
for real results
are
very
good
for
future
improvement
.
The
ar
uments presented
by
Mr.
/1/alla.oe
carried
weight and the livestock men are thinkin~ for next year.
HOGS:
Ver
:
.
-.:
little
interest
has
been
roused in the production
of
hogs up the
present
time.
By
far the larger part
f f
the
dairy-men
sell whole
milk
and consequently this phase of the
work
does
not
appeal
to
them
as
it
otherwise ""uld.
There is, however, some possibilities for some extension
work
here, both in the increa.s
·
e number of farms raisiru,, hogs
and
in the
proper
care of hogs.
TIOGS.:
The prairi
dog campaign this last year has been
prin-I
oipa.lly
of
a olean-u;p
work.
The
,.,ork
started
with
approximately-900
acres, scattered
over
the
entire
County.
The
work
was
car
ied
on cooperating with the
u.
s.
Biologioa.l Survey and very good
re-_sults
have been obtained. Progress has been ~ood
in
spite of the
difficulty
experienced
by- dogs moving frorp.
place
to pl
.
.
oe; on the
last check made the
15th
of
November
the entire
County
now
is
clean
exoept a small area in the Southwest
portion
of
Co1U1ty inhabitated
·
by
the Whitetail prairie dor..
Tnis
district
is isolated from the
rest of the
County
by
mountains o that
thrj
·
fina.1
work
can
be
com-leted in the early
spring
.
In the cooperative
work
th the
u.
S. Biological Survey,
considerable
experimental
poison.1:ng
was
oarried
on-.
Experients
were carried
using
different stren th of
poison and
dif£erent
me-thods of mixin~
poison, usinf different materials for
getting
the
poison to
adhere
to the oats. It
·
was
found that
the best
stren~th
·
of poison was 1 Oz.
processed
strychnine
to
30 1uarts of rolled
oats
aa
it was the most
effective.
Of the
various
materials used for
getting
the poison to
adhere
to the rolled oats,
it
was
found
that
-beet
molasses
was the best. It was also
fou.no
that the b
·
eet mola-
·
sses
mixture
was very good for clean-up wor as prairie dogs which
discriminated
a. a.inst
oaro water oats, readily took the beet mo-
.
lasses oats and in a majo~ity of towns
poisoned
ith
this
miEture.
10o% kills were reportec.
COYOT~S:
In the
winter
some
e~rperimenta1
·
ork was
car~ied on
by
'""!8-by u. s.
Biological ork in the County, testing results of
various
poison
in the field.
Some
very co
n
clusive
results
.
,ere
obtained
.
Early this
sprina aid
1s
ive to stock men in coyote
n
oisonin
1here
lo ses ere oc
,.
·uri~o-
among
you,.ng
calves
from
coy-otes. The
killin
as
stopped lthough only thee dead coyotes
were
actually
found.
~~
one of
the
lar est cattlemen of
the
County
re
-orted losi
appro imately 100 calves from coyote. The
•
s.
Biolo~ical
Survey
as immediately asked for
help
,
a hunter
as
sent
out
nd
in four eeks, 18 coyotes ere ki
~
led n all lo
1s
o f ~
calves
w
s
stopped.
~
IB 'ORK:
The womens'
o~k is very rapidly
~aining
a stro
foot
-hold
.
Early in the
sprin s
e meetin s were
held
in four
differ-ent oommun1 ties. Som of
this
11
ork as very suoces
ful
and
orea
ted
in.terest and some as received
1th
indiffereno.
In the summer Miss Sheridan visited several of the
Communities
with
the
County' A ent,
and
throu h
her
some real live
interest
tas
aroused among the omen.
As a Tesult of this ork Miss
Hyde of the Colle e as secured for ovember 12 and 13 and
t
vo
very
successful me tings in millinery
demon tration
were
held.
Interest
has
also
been brou ht to life in other communities as a result of
t i s meeting
an
t e
fist
meeting as a direct result will be held
in
C
stle Rook,
December
6th, with the aid of the
Seufin
Club
of
Louviere. Very little of the ork
planned
as
oarried out but a
st
t
has
'been rru de.
'T'
¥:
Th poultry
work
in the County was the bet
or
anized of
11 the· ork. Three de onstrations ere started and t
completed.
In eleven months
the
two demonstrato·s made
1,225.76
abo~e all feed
costs. Seven me
ti s ·ere held in different communities, t king
up
disease
revention and feedin and culling fore
production.
The
or_ from every stand oint is very satisfactory. Some 789
: 7 h e n s
ere culled
by
farmers and 426 birds ere culled out as poor
pro
-du.oers a
a.
sold.
nm
:
·
A
ene
al revision of the premium
·
11st as made early
in the year 1th a
general
idea of
tressinR the more important
-9-projects in the County. !his has had some very good results and
a gene
-
ral
interest
in the
liveatook and crops
is
growing
.
The
.
premiuma awarded stressed the standard crops more than others and
asa result more exhibits of these crops were brorurht in
.
The Fa1r
·
was not only
·
a success from the exhibit side
but also from the
financial
side
.
The boys
and ~irls
olub
work
in
the
Oou.nt1 was not as
strong as
·vi
e
11-
.l
hoped
at
the
be
inr
:
in:r
of' the year
·bee
,
use of the
inability
to et l,.aoers., Two
boys
were
seouredfor corn clubs
but
sic
rn
ea
s.
and
a.cc· dents prevented both from completin9.:' the work
.
Thre
e
boys carried o
.
n calf cl
"tJor
k
n Castle Rook and comp1eted
work through
the
year
.
·
A poultry
c
lub was
org nized at Sedalia
and
completed the ork lthough not
·
as
satisfac~orily as should be be
-cause of~ la.cl: o
.
f'
leadership
and 1
t beirg impossible for the
Ooun)y
Agent to meet
,n
1th
the
boys
as often ashe should ba.ve
.
A
girls sewin club at Louviere
was
or
0anized
lin
t
er
.
tb.e le
_:
ders ip of
s. Richardson. Ten girls completed the entire
ye~r
•
s
work
and
a demonstrdtion team was sent to the StateFairat
Pueb
l
o
.
A
Club
Day
r.ra.s
given at
·
Louviere
and
41 persons were
preeent
t
t
the mee
·ting
.
\
ive boys ui1der the leadership
of
Mr.
Peterson
or
-~anized
a
garden club and all
completed the
ork.
A representa~
from this elub as sent to the State
Fair
at Pueblo.
~
Prospeots
novr
for mo
e
and
·
b
et'le
· rk for 1925 look
very
eood.
Prospective
leaders
have
bean secured in some of the
new districts and
t1',e
ones
·
who have bad the clubs this year are
willing to take
uy
the
work again
next
year
.
'
-..
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....
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. '~\
,:..
.
GENERAL
Stn.UU.RY.
;
~,
'
/~
-
~ \ : . '"11::; \ ~ 0 •• . . ~ .. .-,:,,. V. 0 ..,W
or
k Pla
~
ned for
1924.
W
ork
Acc
o
mpl
is
hed in
1924.
I•
C:r~ps:
A.
··
Certified
Seed
.
1.
Corn"
eeoure
four
grower.s
to
pro-duo~
oertified
Minn
.
13
.
Corn
,
secure
four growers to pro•
·.
duce Pure
Imp.
\"Thi
te
Austral
ian.,
nr'der certified
conditions and
make
seedselection
and
seed
plots
.
2.
Rye.
seoure
six growers
of
Rosen
Rye
certified in
full
of
24.
3
.
Potatoes,
secure
f
ive
men
in
meun-tains to
raise certified seed potatoes.
4.
Sec1re
Girka or
Beardless
T.
R
.
f
or
full of 24.
I. Crops:
A
.
·
Certified Seed.
1. Six
farmers
secur
ed
to
grow
.
reP-istered iinn.
13.
O
n
ly
·
ont,
however,
had
seed
registered
and one o
~
her saved
seed.
Tw
o
farmers seenred to make
special
selections
o
·.·
White
Australian. one
o
ther
growing
selected Whi
.
e
Australian but
not
under
certi
f
ied
condit
ions
1n every respect.
2. None.
ork of
past
years
With
f
ai
l
ure
to find sale for
reg-istered seed
has
c
au
sed
a
l
a
ck
of interest in
reg
ist
er
in
g
.
·
Most of
aar
mers
.,
however,
u.ae
seed
which
was originally
regis-tered.
3.
N
one.
Potatoes in
Divide
Dis-trict has
been a
var
y
uncertain
crop
f
o
r
several
years.
4.
One farmer
secured to
p
[a
4
t
seed
w
lii
ch is of
his
01m
selection
---
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N•
l
Work Planned
_
for
1924.
B.
Legumes.
1.
Secure 12 farmers to ,
.
nt one
or
&wo
acres
of
fie
l
d
peas
a
n
d
oa
t
s.
2.
Seoure 3 farme.r~ to
<lemon-strav
sweet
~
l
over
~,-
p~sture
,
s.
-
, ' , - - ~___,,~_ ~Work Ac
c
ompli
s
hed in
1924.
lv Ni~e men secure to plant fiel
d
peas
in
one or more
a
cre
n
lots.
Some
of the
plots were pl
s.
nt
ed
with
oats
and oo
JIBwitho
uc
.
Bec
a
use of tho very lon and
un-usual drouth, no
a
o11cl
u
s
ion
s
coul
d.
be
.
drawn for t
h
is
last
year.
4
2. ~he 3 de
m
onstrators pic
k
ed
f
or t
h
is
w
ork
did not use fields for
p
ast
u
res but either
out hay
or
left
it mature for seed.
C.
Pastures.
_
-
~
-
"-
-
-
--- ---~---
1.
Seonre
3
men to grow
-
eye
paEftur
&
.'·
f
~
"'
-
Five
--m
en seaure'd to demonstr
a
te aar
1
:-
y
ing
-
- _,lroep
._
r
'"'-
~.0-2.rar
-
o~
c~pr
y
in
p
·
ca
p
acity.
oa
p
aoity 9f
eye
pastures. As a re
s
ult of
.--.
.:--
-
- -
-~
t
hese
pastuTes
•
8
o
t
her
men
h
a
ve
-
decided
D.
Clubs
•
·--
1.
Orfr.a.pi
z
e
two
_
~
c~~n
slu.bs.
·
cer-
/
--.- _.-'· ~
-etfi
,.
e.$1,
_
_s-e~~
-
'
s· / ·/-,
('
,• ' ,,
- y;:::,~;
j
.
2.
Ori
a
nize one pot~to o1
-
1iW,
cer-tified seed spud.
---
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__ _
II.
Livestook.
A. Dairy.
1.
·
Get 5 farmers to
r
een
reoords
·
and
,
eets on
in
d
ivid
u
al
cows
for
at
least
six months.
2. Give resu
l
ts
plenty
of publicity.
to put
i
r-r_e pastures fo
_
r
t
he
coming
year
_
·
1.
-
None o
f
t
h
is
w
ork
aoaom
p
lished.
,-,...
-~::/'
~-.-f•
1. Noth
i
ng
a
ccomplished.
1. Nine men
1.e e secured to
llee:p
records
an
a
accounts.
Wor
k
l
a
sted
o
ut five
m
onths until the
h
eavy
s
pring and summer
w
or
k
began.
2.
Publici
t
y
w
ork was
in
perso
na
l
contact
wit
h
a fe
a
rticles in the local paper.
I
...
~ I
Work
Planned
for
1924.
3. Cooper
te with
cooperation
in.
getting- milk t
·
est
aaaooia-tion.
4. Put on Publicity Campaign
for
bet
t
er
Sires
-
.
and
if
possible
get
three
men
to
buy
Reg.
Sire.
5. Or~anize at
least
two
dair.y-
cal.£
clubs and
continue
1923 club.
13.
:Beef.
1.
If possible
get men
to
standard
•
ize
marketin~
classes.
·
En-
·
courage better
sires
wher.
e
_
needed.
Work Accomplished in
1924.
3. Nothing of
a
definite
nature has
been
worked
out
Ul)to the pre~ent da,te.
4. Two men secured repistered sires through
the efforts of
·
the
County
.
Agent
.
A
general
campaign
for
better
sires
was
st rted
Nov.
1st
at the
oattle grading
demonstration
held
on
the
Ratcliff
.Dillon
Ra.neh
•
.
5~.
·
·
One
dairy e
..
1
:f:
_
qlub
orga.niz
ed
.
in
th thre
·
members
.
11.'hre
+
e b9.y.s
ha(l
·
ive
&airy
calves.
Three
heife
·
rs
and
two
bull
a
?;!.
lves.
Both
bu.
J
l ca.lve
·
s
a.re
re
,.
istered.
I. Grad.in_~
:
o
·
eattle
prog:r
a
w
started.
Nov.
·
-1st
.
i
th the assistance
of
.
Mr.
Wallace
.
t1.
s.
D~ A •
.
an
.
d
Mr. Fairban
1s.
L1vesto1Jk
Specialist of the College~ at a
demon-.
stration
held at
the"'?" R nch.
"'·--- --
-,<
!
gener
.
al
ma.r
~
etinc- program
is started
·
·
·
·
whereby
we
boJ)e
in the
futur
e
to be
able
o.
Hogs.
III. Pests.
1.
,
Have
three
go~d
live pig clubs
and continue 1'923 club.
A.
Plan
final clean
up for 1923.
-
·
to
sell t
e
feeder
eatt1e
·
a1reet
to
the
feeder men.
lo
None of this
work
\.Vas
completed because
of inability
·
to
·
P-et
leaders
.
•
·
A.
Olean
up vror
··-
ri
th
the pr irie
dogs
has
progressed until
e have only
a emall
)'.)Ortion
of land in the
.
extreme SW
part
of
the
County in·
the mount
a
ins here
tlere
are
any
dogs
ieft.
This
work
will
be completed nd the County
entirely
free
of prairie
do~s
in
the
early s
n
ring.
Fut
n
re
worlc
will consist of
J?rotecting
the County
boundaries
from reinfestation
t
~
'
Work P1anned for 1924.
B. Put on campaign
against
and aosrotes.
IV.
Home
Work
.
P:pies a
A
.
At
1~
.
ast four
demonstrations
on
elothing
,vork.
B. At lea..
0+.
1nro
demonstrations on
cannin
C.
Organize two
ao i.n:'l"
clubs.
ork
AocoJnPlished
in 1924.
B.
Assistance o-1 ven
in
locating
and
A.
o.
di
rn
~out
seve
al
coyot
de1
,
in
the s-c">ring.
Assistance
also
~
iven
in
aidin.o- the
u.
S. Biol
_
o
-
ic
l.,(.1
Sur-vey
to secure
land
11:pon which ~o
do
some
e
erimental
poieoninq:
in
the
field
.
Aid
~
1ven one bf
the
largest
cattlema
n
in the
ooun
y
to·
stop
the
kil
i~~of calves
-
Y
coyotes.
Stop
-in~
of
k
illing
as suocessfu
ly
accomplished
.
A"d
ive
·
to
The
Gree
n
l
ana
Cattle
Co. in securin~ a
Government
Hunter
in
July,
,h
ere
approximately
100 oal ves
·
ha.
cl
been
kil•
ed
by
coyo
es
.
Ei;"'hteen
coyo
Jes
were
killed
by
·
'-he
Runt
,
e
·
•
14
old
ones
and
4
pups
.
T'hre
e
o
-i;be
ol ones
were
said to
have
been
at
least 12
yrs.
old
and rere
th.ee le
~~ed
animals.
.
A eneaal meetin,e-
aalled
to
put
on
a
coyo
1;
e
campai
gn
durim
•;
· nter but
p.p
to
the
present
time no real otion
has
been
started.
Four
demonstr tions h ve
been
held
in
County. One in Millinery
by
·
liss
~va
Floy
Smith, t' o
millinery
by
s-.
13l
d.n
ohe
E.
Hyde
and a
genere.l
sew1Dg
demonstration
by
the Lo~viers S1ming
Club.
Nothinp- accomplished
.
One sewin
""'
olub organized
with
e:x.-ce
pti
onal
ly
good
leade
:-
s
ip
at
Louviers.
Other
prospective
c
l
ubs
failed
because
of
lac
k
o
·
leader
...
•
:
,.;,
r
Work Planned
for
1924
oD. Org~nize two canning
olubs.
Vo
Poultry.
VL.
·
Fair.
A
.
Rave
at
least five oullin~
demon-strations
a.nu two
oa.ponizin
tt
demonstrations.
B. Get
five people
to
keep
records
of eggs
and
oost of feed.
A.
B.
o.
n
·
.
Mal
te
the
192
.t..
F
a
il'
better
a.nd
larger than last year.
Special
campaign
to get the
f~rmers
themselves to
exhibit
at the Fair.
Rold
at
lea.st
three
o
ommu.ni
ty
Fairs
at some date
prior
to
State
Fair
.
Rearr
ang
e and oorrect Premium List
as
it
siands
pow
~
.
Work Aooomplished 1n
1924 •
.
D. Bothing
aocomplished
.
A
.
Seven ou
_l
in~
and
disease
prevention
demonstrati
o
ns
held
in
Count7. '189
hens
culled
by
farmers
,
426 birds
ou
"'Ml
ed
out
and
sold. No
oaponizing
demonstr
~
tions
held
.
B. Four
people were
secured
to keep
-
re-co rds
and
o osts.
tm of
v,hic
h
made
a
net
profit
above feed oosts in 11
mont~9
.
o
f
$l225
.76,
these
two de
m
on-str
ators
et
a
riti
,..,.
':~r
:t
th
a
total
of
361 birds.
A.
B.
o.
D.
The 1924.Fair
was
larger
than
1923
in
e~ery department
with
the exception
d
the
HoGt:
])epartmert
t.
,
A
bet
,
te:r and
more
general
interest
throughout
the
Oount7.
was shown
at this Yair
than at
any
t
me in the history of
the Douglas
O
ounty
Fair.
This
campaign
v as more
sucoeesf
;
l than
an tic
ipa.ted.
No community
Fairs held
•
.
A
OlulJ Fair
or Club
Day
was held
1
t
Lottv-iers.
Rearran ement of Premium Lit
was
made
~
nd Premiu.m
List turned over to
I
-~
O'l
I
·
Work
Planned
for
1924.
_M
iscellaneous
Work.
Work Accomplished in
1924.
·
1 ••
A general effort as made
by
the
County
Agent
throu;,-hout the
entire
year to stren~t
en all
ojects
for
the comin?
year,
1925. Considerable
dis ease preve
n
tion
,.,ork ·was
done
con-sis
ting
in the main of
·
ork done
vii th
livestock.
our
different
commun-1vies
-ere
il•en aid and
adYice
as
to
the oheokin~ and
treatment
of
the sore
moutb
which
oecured in horses and
e ttle. Thi!:! inform
·t
ion and aid wa
secured and
o-
iven
\
"th
the
as
!,J
istanoe
of the
St
:1
te
Veterinary Of:fice
in
Denver.
A
number of men
were given
adivoe
on
·
dairy and 11vestoek feeding
as
wall
as
po1::ltry
throu
:··
h
perso
··
al calls at
t'he of.Pioe. Distribution of
exten-sion and department bulletins a
well
as College bulletins was made
by
~ak
ing a bu
'l
etin rack which displayed
the bulletins to a better adv
a
nta e
than
had
heretofore
been
poSiiJible.
A
~ene
al campaign has been started
and is
v1ell
unde ·
way
to make the
womens' vork more
erfec-';ive
and
of
a
more
d
ef · ni
,
e na
tnre
than
in
the
p
ast
two
years.
A
general meetin of
representatitres from every community
in the
Cc,unty
was held
ana.
a
tentative
TElTTATIVE PROGR
AM
FOR
·
l925
a
!he program
.
of wo·
rk fo
.
r 1925 will not be
greatly
di:ffer
ent from that 1hich was planned
f
or 1924
.
The
w
ork in
livestock and crops
will
be
praotically the
same
.
The ,,ork
,
however, in the
13oys
•
and Girls
'
Clubs
and in
the
·
omens
'
work,
we intend
·u
o
make just as stron
g
as possible without getting
too
much started to be unable to com
p
lete all
.
~
The
poultry work
will be
increased
but w
i
ll be
carried on
by
the
demonstration
method so tha
t the bulk
of the
work can 'he
carried
gradually and wlthout
a.ny
hardship upon
any
-one concerned
.
The other rork will
in
all
probability '
be
oarriea.
on in appro~ima.t
ely the same
manner
o.Sw
a
s
o drri
ed
on
thi
s
last
year
.
It is the plan of this o:ffioe to have a
meeting with
the
newly- eleoted
Oommissioners
and the one Commissioner
holdin
o-
over
,
and make de
f:
inite
plans for the entire
y·ear
'
s work
of 1925
.
-Form No. 285
March I, 1924
COOPERATIVE EXTENSION WORK IN AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS
U.S. Department of Agriculture and State Agricultural Colleges
Cooperating
Extension 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, and negro agent, reporting on their respective lines of work.
State ____ _
lf agent has not been employed entire year, indicate exact period. Agents resigning during the
year should make out this report before quitting the service.
Approved:
Date
___
/
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: ,,_
-DEC 5
1924
Date
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