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Identifier: extensionworkamo190merc (find matches)
Title: Extension work among Negroes 1920
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Mercier, W. B. (William Benjamin), 1868-
Subjects: Agricultural extension work United States African American farmers
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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he SouthernStates. (Fig. 6.)These clubs are di-vided into two gen-eral classes: Cropclubs and live-stockclubs. A boy maybe a member of bothlive-stock and cropclubs, but usuallythe membership isconfined to one class. The members are required to plant the sameacreage and observe the same regulations adopted for all the extensionclub work. The boys belonging to crop clubs may choose corn, cotton, wheat,oats, peanuts, potatoes, soy beans, or sorghum. Those in the live-stock clubs may have a pig, calf, sheep, or poultry. The total en-rollment in crop clubs in 1920 was 6,104, of which 3,847 reported.The market value of the products of those reporting was $296,041.70.The enrollment in all the live-stock clubs was 18,366. Their productsat market prices were worth $153,405.97. These reports representonly a fraction of the value of the club work, since there is a verynoticeable interest in such work in communities where there are noregularly employed agents. The club work for Negroes might well
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Fig. 6.—Members of a farm makers club receiving fieldinstruction. Extension Work Among Negroes, 1920. 17 be pushed in every one of the States with anything like a completeorganization. MISCELLANEOUS WORK. Naturally, the greatest part of all agents time was spent in tryingto get the people to adopt better agricultural methods in general, and,as already stated, the noticeable improvement in the entire com-munities where agents have served demonstrate that the work is pro-gressing (fig. 7). Special campaigns, such as Clean-up Week;surveys of certain communities where work had been carried on forsome time to secure records on just what progress had been made bycertain families; and meetings of the development clubs to discuss

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