Massachusetts General Laws Part I. Administration of the Government (Ch. 1-182) Ch. 128, § 43

The trustees shall maintain one or more agents or instructors in agriculture, homemaking and country life, who shall meet the residents of the county individually and in groups for the purpose of teaching and demonstrating better practice in agriculture and homemaking, the benefits to be derived from co-operative efforts, better methods of marketing farm products and the organization of communities to build up country life.