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Twenty-Five Years Of Agricultural Extension Work In South Dakota, Gilbert S. Weaver
Twenty-Five Years Of Agricultural Extension Work In South Dakota, Gilbert S. Weaver
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Organization of Agricultural Extension Work in South Dakota during March, 1912,
Marked the beginning-of a-movement in agricultural education that was destined to influence the economic and social life of rural people in South Dakota for twenty-five years. Only the future will reveal its limitations. Agricultural Extension Work had its inception in Brown county. Farmers, business men, a railroad, a mail order house, and county commissioners of Brown county had formed the Better Farming Association. This organization took the initiative in promoting and inaugurating county agent work. During the span of years from March, 1912, to March, 1937, Agricultural Extension work …