Farm Demonstration Work Under United States Department of Agriculture
The Agriculture Department supports farm demonstration work across 15 Southern states including Maryland and Oklahoma. With 1,192 county agents in 720 counties, the program educates about 100,000 adult farmers and an equal number of youth on demonstration farms and through boys and girls clubs.
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Maryland
Oklahoma
State Agricultural College
Texas
District of Columbia
Farmers’ Clubs
Bureau of Plant Industry
Demonstration Farms as Community Learning Projects
Demonstration farms are 5 to 50 acres owned and operated by farmers at their own expense to grow a chosen crop under supervision. They serve as concrete community lessons, distributed publically, intended to spark interest and trust in extension agents through visible farmer success and rivalry.
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Ics
Demonstration of Methods for Farm Improvement and Rural Organization
Field and special meetings on farms show improved implements pruning grafting drainage and soil testing. Agents promote rural organizations such as farmers clubs seed breeding livestock and shipping clubs to extend influence and aid cooperative buying and leadership development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Babcock
Rural Education and Women Farmers Support Program Overview
The article outlines extension work linking farmers to agricultural colleges and USDA experts. It describes the role of agents in farm and home economics, noting women county agents and girls clubs begun in 1910. Programs cover home canning, garden clubs, bread making, and home economics to boost rural life and independence.
Call for Youth Involvement In Farm Improvement Programs
The article urges youths to seek agent help to build and improve farms. It urges a boy and a girl to join their clubs and cooperate with the college and department. If no local agent is available, write to the director of extension at the agricultural college, the state agent, or the Washington office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural College
Mng
Experiment Station
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington
Walter L. Deenson
Alabama
North Dakota Corn and Clover Convention Tackles Landlord Tenant Issue
Grand Forks announces the North Dakota Corn and Clover Convention and Mid-Winter Fair for the first week in February. Speakers from across the country will discuss farming education and the landlord tenant problem as landowners seek fair produce and livestock sharing agreements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Forks
North Dakota
Red River Valley
Fair Association
Jransford
Devils Lake
James J Hill Donates Fifty Thousand Dollars In Bulls
James J Hill distributes fifty imported pedigreed bulls to fifty farmers along the Great Northern route in Minnesota and North Dakota. The bulls, Ayrshire and short horn, cost about 1000 dollars each and aim to boost dairy butter fat and prime beef, with breeding stations across major communities. The Great Northern backs agricultural improvement with experts and a North Dakota state superintendent in Grand Forks.
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Grand Forks
James J. Hill
North Dakota
Northwest
Hill
Minnesota
Great Northern Railway
British Isles
America
Great Northern
Nohle Appoints Irrigation Commission Members
Governor Hannah named J. W. Bliss North Dakota State Engineer and A. F. Noble of Buford to the regional irrigation commission covering Montana Wyoming North Dakota South Dakota and part of Idaho. The nonpaying office aims to ensure local interests are represented. Noble has long supported the Buford Trenton project.
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Nohle
Bismarck
N. D
Hannah
J. W. Bliss
A. F. Noble
Buford
Irrigation Commission
Montana
Wyoming
North Dakota
South Dakota
Idaho
Noble
Buford-Trenton
North Dakota Gains in Wealth Through Farm Output
North Dakota shows a remarkable rise in wealth in 1914 due to higher prices and increased farming output. Wheat led gains with an additional $24.8 million in value, corn produced 14 million bushels, and overall crop value rose over last year despite some reduced areas.
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Grand Forks
North Dakota
Bureau of Agriculture of
National Government
Europe
Union
Production Fine Set at Eight Million for 580000 Tons
A regulator imposed a fine of 8.016 million dollars tied to a production run of 580000 tons and a valuation linked to the existing project, with the enforcement detailing penalties and compliance steps.
Wild Rose Physician Dies After Christmas Day Visit
Dr. Thorvald Thorvaldson of Lake Mills Iowa died of heart failure in a Nicollet hotel room in Minneapolis shortly after finishing Christmas travel. He was 87 and planned to visit his parents for Christmas in Lake Mills. The coroner confirmed the cause and the body was sent to Lake Mills.
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Minneapolis
Lake Mills
Towa
C. A. Thor Wildose
N. D
Nicollet
Thorvaldson
J. F. Clal
Clabo
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Farm Department
United States
Department of Agriculture
Office of
Janet McKenzie Hill
Boston Cooking School Magazine
Bemon
Jaques Mra. Co
Williston
U. S. Burdick
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