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Scattering the seeds of knowledge : the words and works of Indiana's pioneer county extension agents /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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West Lafayette, Indiana :
Purdue University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Founders series.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Research lays a foundation for extension
- One man's vision for extension
- All roads lead to the county agent
- Extension work being new in the county, the office was not understood
- Field demonstration are the rock on which we build
- Farming requires business principles in its management
- Very few farms of the county are maintaining the fertility
- Test! Don't guess!
- The marriage of king corn and queen alfalfa
- Barn was engulfed in a cloud of oat smut
- A number of men sowed wheat that had never sowed it before
- The fruit on the unsprayed tree was unsound, wormy, knotty, and rotted
- Hog cholera! Keep out!
- Cattle were found to have the foot-and-mouth disease
- The teachers look to me for all aid in teaching agriculture
- Boys' and girls' club work in the county is helping considerably
- Supporting soldiers at the front through work in the fields
- Every call took some men much more valuable as producers than they could be as soldiers
- With a food shortage possible, there has been a desire to save all perishable food
- Not safe to guess on the vitality of their seed corn
- Meeting the government's request for more pork
- The farm business is on the rocks
- No one man ever will know all a county agent is expected to know
- The program has become a "jack of all trades and master of some"
- Better hens, more bushels per acre, and greater economy in production all around
- A public servant or a servant to one organization
- The value of the hen as the "mortgage lifter"
- The milk check has been a very welcome thing in a great many homes
- One-third of all tuberculosis cases are contracted directly from milk
- This is the finest bunch of hogs I have raised in years
- Better keep bees better or better not keep bees
- Just mixed up nondescript corn of no particular origin
- Farmers should realize that the pest is within our midst
- The three L's: limestone, legumes, and livestock
- Soil fertility is their capital stock for profit or loss on the farm
- Whenever a farmer gets the soybean habit, he rarely if ever quits
- The wheat crop though unprofitable on the average farm has returned a neat profit in some cases
- Superior strains sought after by progressive farmers
- The eradication and control of this weed is an ever perplexing problem for the careful farmer
- Care for or cut down orchard campaign
- Farmers must find some crop which will pay them a good cash income
- The tractor has taken a prominent place on the farm
- Crops and livestock can be made to grow on these so called "worn-out" farms
- The man on the dirt road today is at a decided disadvantage
- Hoosiers are kind to rats, feeding them on eggs, poultry, grain, and meats
- Power in the home saves mother
- Extension among farm women and girls is as important as that among farm men and boys
- The afternoon of each school day is devoted to agriculture
- Club members have learned to win without boasting, to lose without squealing.