Scattering the Seeds of Knowledge : The Words and Works of Indiana's Pioneer County Extension Agents.

Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: 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 -- 2. One Man's Vision for Extension -- 3. All Roads Lead to the County Agent -- Part Two: 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 -- 5. Field Demonstrations Are the Rock On Which We Build -- 6. Farming Requires Business Principles in Its Management -- 7. Very Few Farms of the County Are Maintaining the Fertility -- 8. Test! Don't Guess! -- 9. The Marriage of King Corn and Queen Alfalfa -- 10. Barn Was Engulfed in a Cloud of Oat Smut -- 11. A Number of Men Sowed Wheat That Had Never Sowed It Before -- 12. The Fruit on the Unsprayed Tree Was Unsound, Wormy, Knotty, and Rotted -- 13. Hog Cholera! Keep Out! -- 14. Cattle Were Found to Have the Foot-and-Mouth Disease -- 15. The Teachers Look to Me for All Aid in Teaching Agriculture -- 16. Boys' and Girls' Club Work in the County Is Helping Considerably -- Part Three: Food Will Win World War I (1917-1918) -- 17. Supporting Soldiers at the Front Through Work in the Fields -- 18. Every Call Took Some Men Much More Valuable as Producers Than They Could Be as Soldiers -- 19. With a Food Shortage Possible, There Has Been a Desire to Save All Perishable Food -- 20. Not Safe to Guess on the Vitality of Their Seed Corn -- 21. Meeting the Government's Request for More Pork -- Photographs -- Part Four: Living Through the Miserable Years of the Agricultural Depression (1919-1929) -- 22. The Farm Business Is on the Rocks -- 23. No One Man Ever Will Know All a County Agent Is Expected to Know.

24. The Program Has Become a "Jack of All Trades and Master of Some" -- 25. Better Hens, More Bushels per Acre, and Greater Economy in Production All Around -- 26. A Public Servant or a Servant to One Organization -- 27. The Value of the Hen as the "Mortgage Lifter" -- 28. The Milk Check Has Been a Very Welcome Thing in a Great Many Homes -- 29. One-Third of All Tuberculosis Cases Are Contracted Directly from Milk -- 30. This Is the Finest Bunch of Hogs I Have Raised in Years -- 31. Better Keep Bees Better or Better Not Keep Bees -- Photographs -- 32. Just Mixed Up Nondescript Corn of No Particular Origin -- 33. Farmers Should Realize That the Pest Is Within Our Midst -- 34. The Three L's- Limestone, Legumes, and Livestock -- 35. Soil Fertility Is Their Capital Stock for Profit or Loss on the Farm -- 36. Whenever a Farmer Gets the Soybean Habit, He Rarely If Ever Quits -- 37. The Wheat Crop Though Unprofitable on the Average Farm Has Returned a Neat Profit in Some Cases -- 38. Superior Strains Sought After by Progressive Farmers -- 39. The Eradication and Control of This Weed Is an Ever Perplexing Problem for the Careful Farmer -- 40. Care For or Cut Down Orchard Campaign -- 41. Farmers Must Find Some Crop Which Will Pay Them a Good Cash Income -- Photographs -- 42. The Tractor Has Taken a Prominent Place on the Farm -- 43. Crops and Livestock Can Be Made to Grow on These So Called "Worn-Out" Farms -- 44. The Man on the Dirt Road Today Is at a Decided Disadvantage -- 45. Hoosiers Are Kind to Rats, Feeding Them on Eggs, Poultry, Grain, and Meats -- 46. Power in the Home Saves Mother -- Photographs -- 47. Extension among Farm Women and Girls Is as Important as That among Farm Men and Boys -- 48. The Afternoon of Each School Day Is Devoted to Agriculture -- 49. Club Members Have Learned to Win Without Boasting, to Lose Without Squealing.

Epilogue: Educators by Profession, Friends to Rural People, and Pioneers of Agricultural Change -- Photographs -- Notes -- Sources -- Index.

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