12 Decade Of Negro Extension Work 1914 1924 Image: NYPL's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search}

Negro home remodeled and beautified according to plans and suggestions furnished by the Negro extension agent; Home ownership and improved living conditions are important factors in obtaining a permanent upbuilding of the Negro farm community in the south; that Negro agents are building well is indicated by their success in influencing the construction of 569 new houses, the remodeling of 1,002 old houses, and beautification of 1,336 home grounds during 1924.

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Field demonstration in cultivating cotton; The Negro is naturally a farmer and takes a keen interest in putting to use the better practices learned at demonstration meetings.

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Virginia Negro extension agents assembled at annual meeting; This group is typical of the efficient negro extension agents throughout the south who, with vision and good judgment are influencing negroes to follow the best methods of farming and home making in order to increase their earning capacity and improve their living conditions.

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Negro county agricultural agent helping a farmer to select fattening hogs; Negro farmers desire helpful information on specific things that can be put into immediate use with noticeable results; In this respect, demonstration activities have rendered a valuable service in meeting their needs.

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Negro club member who made sufficient profit from the sale of butter and buttermilk to pay her way through Tuskegee Institute; The benefits which accrued through her club activities were far-reaching in that her neighbors and friends were inspired to follow the best dairy practices in an effort to emulate her successful results.

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A demonstration of home conveniences designed to lighten the labor of the Negro home maker and allow her more time for self-improvement and recreation; Such demonstrations by local men or women have stimulated the adoption of good practices and have done much to bring about a general community improvement.

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This Negro club boy is learning seed - corn selection from his county agricultural agent.

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Negro movable school which carries equipment and instructors to local communities where the better ways of farming and home making are demonstrated; Such movable schools have supplemented the work of the local Negro extension agent, who follows up and impresses on the community the lessons brought out.

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Farm home and building of Floyd Stokes, of Gloucester County, Va., an outstanding Negro farmer who attributes unusual success to following the advice and suggestions of the Negro extension agent.

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Herschell Glenn, of Rockdale County, Ga., who made a profit of over $265 through club work in 1924; [Photograph furnished by Georgia Extension Service.]

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Negro agent advising a farmer regarding the value of cowpeas, soy beans, and other legumes for soil improvement; During 1924, Negro framers conducted 9,860 demonstrations with cowpeas, soy beans, and other leguminous and forage crops, of which 8,358 were completed on a total acreage of 54,366.

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Negro home demonstration agent demonstrating the making of rugs for the home; During 1924, 7,688 women and 8,656 girls were enrolled to make or buy and install certain house furnishings suggested by the agents.

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