OT:Cooperative Extension Service
- Subject: OT:Cooperative Extension Service
- From: w*
- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:07:32 -0500
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The lion's share of
> all that research money in the early years was focused on the "bigger
> is better" philosophy at the expense of the small landowner. Many
> Extension services now provide useful services to all
> farmers/gardeners, . . .
>
> Bill Wells (now hunkering down lest the onslaught slay me)
>
Bill, I promise to me gentle! Actually, I am changing the subject.
I am glad that the Extension service works in your state.
Finally, after years of threats to cut back, it is finally happening
in MS. This state has MCES (Mississippi Co-operative Extension
Service) and MAFES (Mississipp Agricultural and Forestry
Experiment Station), both headquartered on the campus of MSU
where I worked for a number of years.. I can not begin to relate the
endless duplicity and waste of taxpayers' money with these two
mega offices.
No malice intended, but these two agencies are like the National
Guard - the employees of both sit around and wait for something to
happen, which rarely occurs. They don't drink beer on the job, but
I've seen them play cards!
I started trying to get my fire ant inspection sticker for mailing
purposes in April after an on-site inspection, which occurred
in my driveway only because it was too muddy to get off the
concrete because the inspectors would muddy up their new boots
and the new, shiny pick-up if they ventured into the field. When
they left from their office that morning, they had forgotten 'to throw
some stickers on the truck,' so they would mail me some. Ha! To
make a long story short, I finally wrote a letter to the Commissioner
of Agriculture because numerous attempts to get the stickers had
failed. I am assuming the delay was because of all of the forced
retirement parties these guys had to attend at the end of the fiscal
year on June 30.
One last tidbit. I had a strange (to me) tree growing on my
property. I took a branch with numerous leaves to the
forestry department, horticulture department, MCES, MAFES,
landscape architecture dept, etc. and nobody could identify
it for sure. I was told it was several things I knew it was not,
including buckeye. Finally, about five years later at a country
nursery, I saw this tree offered for sale. It was labeled Common
Green Ash, which it really and truly is.
I have no faith in the Extension service and its satellite offices.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8 (Adding SCARLET O'HARLETT to his
Won't Buy list).
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