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RAPP - OHATS
By: W. H. Lyne
County Agent
Through the kindness of members of the Rappahannock Angus Breeders Feeder Calf Sale and those of the Northern Virginia Feeder Calf Sale, I was able to attend the convention of the National Association of County Agriculture Agents, held this year at Memphis, the last of October.
The program exceeded by far my expectations in every respect and consequently I am eager to report, via the press, to those who might be interested.
First of all, may I say there were 1035 county agents there from Maine across to Washington and south! In fact, at the roll call, the only places I caught without representatives were Vermont and the Philippines. Even little ole’ Rhode Island had one of its county agents representing exactly 50 per cent of its men in this profession. There were 26 county agents in attendance from Virginia.
The program got underway at 6:45 Sunday morning with breakfast in West Memphis, Arkansas, as guests of the Crittendon County Farm Bureau and was followed by a tour to Wilson to observe cotton ginning and processing of cottonseed and soy beans. At the processing plant I was most impressed with the size of a pile of soybeans (under roof) which was about three times the size of our county Courthouse. Then, too, we saw the two grades of lint being taken from the cotton seeds as it comes from the .gin; also, cottonseed meal, cottonseed cake, cot(See
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