Planting the seeds of hope : Indiana County extension agents during the Great Depression and World War II /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Whitford, Fred, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2023]
Colección:The Founders Series.
Temas:
Purdue University. > Cooperative Extension Service > History > 20th century.
Purdue University. > Cooperative Extension Service
1900-1999
Depressions > 1929 > Indiana > West Lafayette.
Crises économiques > 1929 > Indiana > West Lafayette.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Depressions
Indiana > West Lafayette
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Planting the Seeds of Hope
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • DEDICATION
  • CONTENTS
  • Part 1: Pioneering a New Field of Work (1887-1928)
  • 1 Neither the Agent nor His Farmer-Constituents Knew Very Much About What to Expect of One Another
  • Part 2: Outlasting the Great Depression (1929-1939)
  • 2 The Shattering, Sledge Hammer Economic Blows of the Depression
  • 3 Building Support Through Advisory Boards
  • 4 Does the County Agent Do Anybody or Group of Farmers Any Good or Justify His Expense?
  • 5 Live Out of the Garden, the Smoke House, and Cellar
  • 6 Cash Is the One Article That Is Scarcest and Hardest to Get
  • 7 The Man With the High-Producing Soil, Hen, Cow, and Sow That Kept Operating Expense Down Was Able to Return a Profit
  • 8 Farmers Hanging On by a Mere Thread Reached Out for Benefit Payments to Save Their Farms
  • Photographs
  • 9 Conservation of Soil Is the Solution on Which Will Hang Future Extension Activities
  • 10 Erosion Is One of the Major Problems Which Must Be Faced
  • 11 Land Use Planning Not Altogether a New Idea
  • 12 Extension Work Interrupted by Extreme Droughts and Flood
  • 13 There Is Convenience and Satisfaction of Flipping a Switch and Getting Light
  • 14 Shall I Sell One Team on a Four-Horse Farm and Buy a Tractor?
  • 15 The Average Farmer Has Not Learned the Principles of Economic Uses of Wood Lots
  • 16 Hybrid Corn Is With Us to Stay Until Something Is Found to Take Its Place
  • 17 The Necessity of Knowing the Soil Before a Good Crop Can Be Produced
  • 18 Growing Wheat Is One Thing and Growing Quality Wheat Is Another
  • Photographs
  • 19 Farmers on the Lookout for Some New or Different Crop That Offers More Promise for Fair Returns
  • 20 Not More Cows but Fewer and Better Dairy Cows Is the Imperative Need
  • 21 Sheep Have a Place on Most Every Farm
  • 22 Runts and Diseased Pigs Seldom Lift the Mortgage
  • 23 A Bushel Basket of Eggs Brings In as Much Money as 100 Bushels of Corn
  • 24 The Life of an Extension Worker Is an Honorable Occupation and an Interesting One
  • Photographs
  • Part 3: Soldiers of the Soil During World War II (1940-1945)
  • 25 Fitting the Extension Program to Wartime Conditions Has Required Some "Give and Take"
  • 26 The County Agent Is Expected to Be a Walking Encyclopedia on Government Programs
  • 27 Production Goals That Looked Impossible Were Reached
  • 28 Higher Hog, Dairy, and Poultry Prices Created an Interest Like Never Before
  • 29 For Patriotic Reasons as well as for Profit, Acreage Has Been Expanded
  • 30 Tomatoes Have Become a Major Crop
  • 31 The Total Increase in Home Production and Consumption Would Be a Staggering Amount of Food
  • 32 The Armed Forces Have Taken 1,500 Men, Including Farmers. Why Wouldn't It Create Many Problems?
  • 33 All Agricultural Workers Seeking Employment in Industrial Factories Must Have a Statement of Transfer From the County Agent

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