![Scattering the Seeds of Knowledge: The Words and Works of Indiana's Pioneer County Extension Agents](http://img.images-bn.com/static/redesign/srcs/images/grey-box.png?v11.9.4)
Scattering the Seeds of Knowledge: The Words and Works of Indiana's Pioneer County Extension Agents
800![Scattering the Seeds of Knowledge: The Words and Works of Indiana's Pioneer County Extension Agents](http://img.images-bn.com/static/redesign/srcs/images/grey-box.png?v11.9.4)
Scattering the Seeds of Knowledge: The Words and Works of Indiana's Pioneer County Extension Agents
800Hardcover
-
PICK UP IN STORECheck Availability at Nearby Stores
Available within 2 business hours
Related collections and offers
Overview
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781557537591 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Purdue University Press |
Publication date: | 05/15/2017 |
Series: | The Founders Series |
Pages: | 800 |
Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 2.00(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part 1 The Precursors to the Development of Extension Education in Indiana; Research, Farmers' Institutes, and One Man's Vision (1882-1912)
1 Research Lays a Foundation for Extension 7
2 One Man's Vision for Extension 27
3 All Roads Lead to the County Agent 46
Part 2 The Show-and-Tell Years of the First County Agents in Indiana: When Seeing Was Believing (1912-1916)
4 Extension Work Being New in the County, the Office Was Not Understood 57
5 Field Demonstrations Are the Rock On Which We Build 74
6 Farming Requires Business Principles in Its Management 81
7 Very Few Farms of the County Are Maintaining the Fertility 91
8 Test! Don't Guess! 99
9 The Marriage of King Corn and Queen Alfalfa 108
10 Barn Was Engulfed in a Cloud of Oat Smut 113
11 A Number of Men Sowed Wheat That Had Never Sowed It Before 117
12 The Fruit on the Unsprayed Tree Was Unsound, Wormy, Knotty, and Rotted 122
13 Hog Cholera! Keep Out! 127
14 Cattle Were Found to Have the Foot-and-Mouth Disease 138
15 The Teachers Look to Me for All Aid in Teaching Agriculture 142
16 Boys' and Girls' Club Work in the County Is Helping Considerably 151
Part 3 Food Will Win World War I (1917-1918)
17 Supporting Soldiers at the Front Through Work in the Fields 161
18 Every Call Took Some Men Much More Valuable as Producers Than They Could Be as Soldiers 171
19 With a Food Shortage Possible, There Has Been a Desire to Save All Perishable Food 181
20 Not Safe to Guess on the Vitality of Their Seed Corn 191
21 Meeting the Government's Request for More Pork 202
Photographs 208
Part 4 Living Through the Miserable Years of the Agricultural Depression (1919-1929)
22 The Farm Business Is on the Rocks 233
23 No One Man Ever Will Know All a County Agent Is Expected to Know 243
24 The Program Has Become a "Jack of All Trades and Master of Some" 254
25 Better Hens, More Bushels per Acre, and Greater Economy in Production All Around 264
26 A Public Servant or a Servant to One Organization 275
27 The Value of the Hen as the "Mortgage Lifter" 289
28 The Milk Check Has Been a Very Welcome Thing in a Great Many Homes 303
29 One-Third of All Tuberculosis Cases Are Contracted Directly from Milk 320
30 This Is the Finest Bunch of Hogs 1 Have Raised in Years 334
31 Better Keep Bees Better or Better Not Keep Bees 346
Photographs 353
32 Just Mixed Up Nondescript Corn of No Particular Origin 365
33 Farmers Should Realize That the Pest Is Within Our Midst 387
34 The Three L's-limestone, Legumes, and Livestock 399
35 Soil Fertility Is Their Capital Stock for Profit or Loss on the Farm 413
36 Whenever a Farmer Gets the Soybean Habit, He Rarely If Ever Quits 422
37 The Wheat Crop Though Unprofitable on the Average Farm Has Returned a Neat Profit in Some Cases 436
38 Superior Strains Sought After by Progressive Farmers 447
39 The Eradication and Control of This Weed Is an Ever Perplexing Problem for the Careful Farmer 460
40 Care For or Cut Down Orchard Campaign 466
41 Farmers Must Find Some Crop Which Will Pay Them a Good Cash Income 477
Photographs 485
42 The Tractor Has Taken a Prominent Place on the Farm 499
43 Crops and Livestock Can Be Made to Grow on These So Called "Worn-Out" Farms 509
44 The Man on the Dirt Road Today Is at a Decided Disadvantage 517
45 Hoosiers Are Kind to Rats, Feeding Them on Eggs, Poultry, Grain, and Meats 524
46 Power in the Home Saves Mother 531
Photographs 542
47 Extension among Farm Women and Girls Is as Important as That among Farm Men and Boys 552
48 The Afternoon of Each School Day Is Devoted to Agriculture 566
49 Club Members Have Learned to Win Without Boasting, to Lose Without Squealing 572
Epilogue: Educators by Profession, Friends to Rural People, and Pioneers of Agricultural Change 584
Photographs 590
Notes 615
Sources 731
Index 735