Scattering the seeds of knowledge : the words and works of Indiana's pioneer county extension agents / Frederick Whitford.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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