Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 176, 2 June 1920 — Page 8

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WHY BIG TURN-OVER? 1,000 COUNTY AGENTS OUT OF RESIGN By WILLIAM R. SANBORN Out of a total of about 2.400 county agents in the United States last year more than 1,000 resigned. This is a surprisingly large percentage of these useful workers and there must have been a reason, in fact several of them.

or these men would still be on the job. This is admittedly a critical year in every agricultural section. The helpful service of the expert county agent is needed this year, if ever, and the loss of so many field workers in the food production army has stirred the States Relations Service of the Department of Agriculture to investigate. It has asked for reasons why, and the replies received have been illuminating. The department notes, first: That of the 1,193 county agents in the 15 states classed as the Southern branch of the service, 633 quit during 1919. In the Northern and Western divisions, comprising 33 states, 376 agents, about one-third of the number enrolled on January 1, 1919. resigned. In each case replacements failed to fill the gaps. In fact there was a net loss of 187 agents in the west, and of 126 in the south at the close of the year. Why They Resigned. Various reasons were assigned by these men for throwing up their jobs. A number stated that lack of appreciation of their work by farmers led to their changing jobs. Some assigned too low incomes. W. A. Lloyd, chief or service for the North and Western sections says that the men who resigned had been in the service a comparatively short time, the average time being but one year and seven months, while those remaining had not been county agents quite two years, taking them as a whole. Mr. Lloyd reports that most all the states complain of inability to hold county agents

cr to find successors for men who are

constantly resigning. Taking a glance at the south we

find that Texas lost 88 county agents

out of a total 175 last year. Oklahoma lost 59 out of 82 inside of the year, while Florida lost 1 out of 65. Wyo

ming having but 14 county agents had all of them to replace within 12 months. Thirty men resigned in Wisconsin; 2C in Indiana and 23 in Kansas. Illinois stands out as a favorable f.xception. The state has more than 0 county agents and of these but five resigned in 1919. There are "county farm bureaus" all over Illinois and tht-se seemingly work in closer harmony with their trained farm advisers, many of whom have years of service to their credit. What The Agents Say. In order to get the viewpoint of the agents and the reasons for their taking up the work, also for resigning, the States Relation Service mailed out a questionnaire, to which most of the men receiving it responded. More than 200 men gave "Too small compensation, considering the character and responsibility of the work." Two hundred others gave night meetings and irregular hours as the cause for their resigning, while 100 stated that lack of co-operation on the part of farmers made them throw up their positions; to which statement nearly 90 others gave "lack of appreciation by farmers" as their reason why. More than 80 followed with the statement that "because of their dependence on public support, which made their tenure of office uncertain, and because of the interference of local politics," they had stepped down and out. Among the other reasons given were insufficient expense money; poor roads and weather; too much personal service work; too much territory and unfair public criticism; 56 giving the latter as the cause of their trouble. Some of these men have gone to farming, as originally intended; others have assumed more lucrative employment. Every county agent who has made a record can get profitable employment from fertilizer firms, machinery houses, silo concerns, seed growers, etc., practically at their choosing, and always at more money and with less work and responsibility. This largely explains the exodus.

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r The Farm and the Farmer BY WILLIAM R. SANBORN

hour of daylight ever since it quit raining. Some of my neighbors have some oats in but I didn't plant any myself tbis spring."

Miss Ethel Glynn (left) and Miss Blanche Benson, photographed at the j end of their trip. The price of transportation has not gone up for Miss Ethel Glynn, aged twenty-four, formerly a telephone operator, and Blanche M. Benson, twenty-two, a former office worker, who have just completed a 1,500-mile trip from Jacksonville, Fla., to New York for thirty-seven cents. They walked much of the way, accepting "lifts" when offered, and found lodfringrs in farm houses every night but two.

Farm Federation

An official call for the quarterly meeting of the officers and board of directors of the Indiana Federation of Farmers' Associations has been issued by General Secretary Lewis Taylor to be held at headquarters in this city on Monday, June 7th. The session will be an important business meeting at which numerous activities of interest to farmers will be discussed and will be presided over by President John G. Brown, of Monon. A mistaken impression has been circulated to the effect that the board meeting would take up the question of what attitude should be assumed toward B. F. Biliter, editor of the Farmers Guide, published at Huntington, who is alleged to have misrepresented proceedings at the recent state-wide conference of county officials when the Biliter affair was fully discussed. On the contrary, the board of directors have dropped the Huntington editor from their deliberations and are leaving, the entire matter up to the committee of 10 representative farmers, one from each district of the federation, to investigate the charges of mismanagement filed by the former. W. H. Newsom, of Bartholomew County, is chairman of the investigating committee, and is conducting the probe in all fairness to all parties involved in the controversy. Officers of the federation and district directors are taking no part in this investigation which will cover the entire 26 pages of allegations as set out by Mr. Biliter or any additional charges he or any other persons may make. A finding will be made public about the middle of the month.

DOCTORS DON'T TURN IN DEATHS, IS CRITICISM TOLEDO, O., June 2 Reported failure on the part of physicians to turn in reports of deaths due to anesthesia was criticized by President James F. Baldwin, of the Ohio State Medical association, in his address here at the opening session of the convention. President Baldwin, a columbus surgeon, said that he had heard of 12 unreported deaths from a certain kind of anesthetic in Columbus, and that another physician had told him of six unreported in Cleveland.

SELL COUNTY WOOL CLIP NOBLES VILLE, Ind., June 2 At a meeting of a committee of three, appointed by the farmers of Hamilton county to receive bids for wool, the contract for the purchase of the clip was awarded to Duncan and Leavitt. of Noblesville, on a commission basis of 2 cents a pound. The firm entered into a written contract, agreeing to pay the farmer 25 cents a pound for the best wool on delivery, and 15 cents a pound for rejections, the balance to be paid when the product is sold.

"We had a good rain on Monday night and a shower on Tuesday morning," said S. J. West, of the bank at Bentonville. "The rain has freshened the fields and have been of benefit to wheat, oats and clover, after the few dry and busy days. Wheat has shown considerable improvement of late, and thin fields are thickening up some. It is too early to predict as to the crop, however, for a lot of our wheat was disced in with oats and still other fields plowed for corn, owing to loss by fly."

Mr. West says that farmers are about done planting corn and that the last of this work will Je fiaished this week, unless wet weather prevents. Those who planted early are now cultivating for the first time. As to hogs Mr. West stated that a few are feeding and some hog3 are moving but, in the main- hogs are on grass and will be carried over until fall, because of mar

ket conditions. Oats are looking well and promise a good harvest, the acreage being largely increased this year. Enlarging Their Elevator. No wheat is being taken in at Williamsburg this week fortwo reasons. First: the farmers are very busy and in the second place the elevator is being enlarged, according to Roscoe Rosa, manager. Mr. Rosa says that wheat prospects, though improving.

are not at all bright up his way and that he sees no reason to advance his estimate made three weeks ago of about a half crop harvest. Farmers are pretty well through with corn planting. Very few farmers are feeding hogs, just letting them run on grass while keeping an eye on tie market. Fifty Acres in Corn. "We cut our corn planting down to 50 acres this spring" said Oscar Rich, living on Nolansfork road, "though perhaps we had better put in 75. My wheat is showing plenty of straw just

now, looks more thrifty in fact tjian any I have seen in a drive over the

country. "This may not mean a crop, how

ever, as there's no telling what's in

store for wheat, this early In the season. For one thing the fly may come back, and the kind of weather we have when the berry is filling means much." Mr. Rich observed that while he is feeding a bunch of hogs he has only about half as many on the place as at this time last year. The cost of feed and the price of hogs are too far apart to make him an enthusiast on hog feeding just now. No Worth-While Betterment. "I can't see that my wheat has improved much" said Charles G. Townsend, on the Middleboro Dike. "I ex

pect it looks some better, but is still

very thin and I am not expecting much from it. Some wheat around here looks better than mine, am glad to say, And may show up fairly well at thresh

ing time. I believe the corn is all in. for the farmers have been using every

Cambridge City Water, Light and Heat Rates Authorized To Be Raised In response to a petition filed by the electric, water and steam heat departments of Cambridge City, the public service commission has authorized the municipal departments to Increase their rates. The electric lighting schedule of from eight to six cents a kilowatt hour with a monthly minimum of 64 cents was increased to a schedule of from 10 to 6.5 cents with a $1 monthly minimum; power rateg from a schedule ranging from four to three cents with a 75 cent monthly minimum of horse power to a schedule of from five to 3.5 cents with a minimum; steam heat rates from 24 to 30 cents a square foot of radiation a season; water rates from the schedule of from 17.5 to 7 cents a 1,000 gallons with quarterly

minimums ranging from $1.50 to $20 to a schedule ranging from 25 to 8

cents and minimums of from $2.50 to

$40. The commossion authorized the

water department to increase to 100 per cent the 75 per cent surcharge now applying to certain flat rates. The commission directed that all water consumers be put on metered basis as soon as possible.

College. Twenty-seven - young men and women will be graduated. The following are the graduates: Clyde Bobbitt, Amy Byrd, John Coulter. Glenn Campbell. Harry Clark. Margaret Clark. Charlotte Craig. Harold Duvall, Russell Hoffmeister, Richard Jobes. Ray King. Miriam Kirker, John Kleinfelder, SeigfHed Kuhne, Ray Mitchell, Raymond Robertson, Ross Rogers, Eleanor Snivley, Vernon Schatzman, Estella Schatzman, Herbert Skinner, Margaret Veriker, Bessie Welliver, Margaret Whitenack. Mack Wisecup, Mary Work and James E. McSurely. These graduates will all enter the freshman class of Miami University in the fall. The commencement service will be

held in the First Presbyterian church Sunday evening. Rev. John M. Wort will preach the sermon, and the high school chorus will furnish the' innate in the auditorium of Miami university. -v. MARY WILT'S MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL 13 OVERRULED In an opinion handed down yesterday at Cincinnati, by United States District Judge John W. Peck, he overruled the motion for a new trial, filed ty the plaintiff in the personal Injury suit of Mrs. Mary K. Wilt, Of Richmond, vs. Clarence T. Burgess, Hillsboro. Ohio. In the case the Jury leturned a verdict for the defendant. The suit was the outcome of a collision of automobiles in Richmond.

McGuffey High School

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