4-H Extension Unit
There are fourteen extension units in the county. Flying Eagle, Sharon
Valley, Central View, Pleasant Hill, Valley Builders, Tiny Towns, Cedar,
Wrinkle, Wreckers, Elm Mills, South Barber, Young Homemakers, Harmony,
Medicine Lodge and Town and Country.
Programs are prepared by Kansas State University and may be used for
lessons, or speakers, or whatever the group chooses. They are free to
plan their programs as individual units.
There is a Spring Tea with which they have combined their Achievement
banquet. In early November they hold a Holiday Ideas Exchange in which
they share ideas.
Ray Etheridge is county Agriculture Extension Agent and Carol (Mrs.
David Bronson is county Extension Home Economist.
4-H Extension as it is today was begun in Barber County about 1935-36.
It is an important part in the development of our youth and in updating
ideas of homemakers to the new methods and managements.
Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 32