Planting the Seeds of Hope : Indiana County Extension Agents During the Great Depression and World War II.

Cover -- Planting the Seeds of Hope -- Title -- Copyright -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- Part 1: Pioneering a New Field of Work (1887-1928) -- 1 Neither the Agent nor His Farmer-Constituents Knew Very Much About What to Expect of One Another -- Part 2: Outlasting the Great Depression (1929-1939) -- 2 The Shattering, Sledge Hammer Economic Blows of the Depression -- 3 Building Support Through Advisory Boards -- 4 Does the County Agent Do Anybody or Group of Farmers Any Good or Justify His Expense? -- 5 Live Out of the Garden, the Smoke House, and Cellar -- 6 Cash Is the One Article That Is Scarcest and Hardest to Get -- 7 The Man With the High-Producing Soil, Hen, Cow, and Sow That Kept Operating Expense Down Was Able to Return a Profit -- 8 Farmers Hanging On by a Mere Thread Reached Out for Benefit Payments to Save Their Farms -- Photographs -- 9 Conservation of Soil Is the Solution on Which Will Hang Future Extension Activities -- 10 Erosion Is One of the Major Problems Which Must Be Faced -- 11 Land Use Planning Not Altogether a New Idea -- 12 Extension Work Interrupted by Extreme Droughts and Flood -- 13 There Is Convenience and Satisfaction of Flipping a Switch and Getting Light -- 14 Shall I Sell One Team on a Four-Horse Farm and Buy a Tractor? -- 15 The Average Farmer Has Not Learned the Principles of Economic Uses of Wood Lots -- 16 Hybrid Corn Is With Us to Stay Until Something Is Found to Take Its Place -- 17 The Necessity of Knowing the Soil Before a Good Crop Can Be Produced -- 18 Growing Wheat Is One Thing and Growing Quality Wheat Is Another -- Photographs -- 19 Farmers on the Lookout for Some New or Different Crop That Offers More Promise for Fair Returns -- 20 Not More Cows but Fewer and Better Dairy Cows Is the Imperative Need -- 21 Sheep Have a Place on Most Every Farm -- 22 Runts and Diseased Pigs Seldom Lift the Mortgage.

23 A Bushel Basket of Eggs Brings In as Much Money as 100 Bushels of Corn -- 24 The Life of an Extension Worker Is an Honorable Occupation and an Interesting One -- Photographs -- Part 3: Soldiers of the Soil During World War II (1940-1945) -- 25 Fitting the Extension Program to Wartime Conditions Has Required Some "Give and Take" -- 26 The County Agent Is Expected to Be a Walking Encyclopedia on Government Programs -- 27 Production Goals That Looked Impossible Were Reached -- 28 Higher Hog, Dairy, and Poultry Prices Created an Interest Like Never Before -- 29 For Patriotic Reasons as well as for Profit, Acreage Has Been Expanded -- 30 Tomatoes Have Become a Major Crop -- 31 The Total Increase in Home Production and Consumption Would Be a Staggering Amount of Food -- 32 The Armed Forces Have Taken 1,500 Men, Including Farmers. Why Wouldn't It Create Many Problems? -- 33 All Agricultural Workers Seeking Employment in Industrial Factories Must Have a Statement of Transfer From the County Agent -- 34 Farm Women and Children Will Ride the Machinery to the Desired 10 Percent Increase in Production of Meat, Milk, and Eggs -- Photographs -- 35 Explaining the Red Tape That Farmers Must Go Through to Get Electricity -- 36 Machinery Will Need to Be Replaced Before the Supply of Baling Wire Is Exhausted -- 37 Patriotic Duty to Get the Most Possible Mileage From Tires -- 38 Farmers Were Second Only to the Army in Needing Fuel -- 39 Extension Meetings Will Be Curtailed Due to Gas Rationing, Thin Tires, and Busier People -- 40 School Children of America! Help Save Your Fathers', Brothers', and Neighbors' Lives by Collecting Milkweed Pods -- 41 American Hemp Will Go On Duty Again -- 42 Draining the Woodlots of the Larger Oaks, Walnuts, Maples, and Sycamores -- 43 Think More of the Soil as a Heritage to Be Conserved and Passed On to Those Who Follow -- Photographs.

Part 4: Beyond World War II (1945-1946) -- 44 Boys Are Having a Hard Time Making "Fox Hole" Dreams Come True -- 45 Effort Must Be Directed Toward Building for the Future -- Photographs -- Epilogue Now as Never Before Farmers Have Put Into Use Many Practices Advocated by the Extension Service -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

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