TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitford,Fred
TI  - Scattering the seeds of knowledge: the words and works of Indiana's pioneer county extension agents 
T2  - Purdue University Press founders series
SN  - 9781612495064
AV  - S534 .S338 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - West Lafayette, Indiana
PB  - Purdue University Press
KW  - County agricultural agents
KW  - Indiana
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Agricultural extension work
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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