Digital Cameras Are Latest Tool for University Extension Agents

Snapshots of diseased plants are sent quickly to laboratories for diagnoses

Henry Hibbs takes a yellowed copy of a 1948 Saturday Evening Post from a shelf in the Oconee County extension office here. Inside, paintings and drawings by Norman Rockwell depict a county extension agent's daily tasks -- diagnosing a farmer's diseased crops, demonstrating new farming techniques, watching a teenage girl show off skills learned at a 4-H

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