The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1915-10-28
THE PROFITABLE
FARMING CAMPA|G n
To Be Started About Nov. 10, 1915
And Carried On For SO Days
In 80 Counties In Western ven-
nsssee, Northern Mississippi and
Eastern Arkansas.

A great Agricultural Campaign
has been organized by the far
mers, bankers and business men
in 83 counties in western Tennes-
see, northern Mississippi and
eastern Arkansas.
These eighty.three counties lie
within a radius of $50 miles of
Memphis, Tenn. 1t is not a Mem
phis Campaign. 1t will be con-
Quoted on cooperative basis un-
der the auspices of the Bureau of
Farm Development of Memphis.
1t will be inaugurated about the
10th, of November, 1915, and con-
tinued for forty or fifty days.
There will be thirty to sixty meet
ings in each county, making a
total of about $500 meetings. Or
ganized into the work are the
most prominent interests of the
three states where the campaign
will be carried on, State Depart
ments of Agriculture and Edu-
cation, Bankers, Railroads, Far
mers Unions, Womens Clubs,
Newspapers and Commercial Or
ganizations, assisted by the Inter
national Harvester Company.
A prominent feature of this
great extension work is the plan
of holding the meetings at the
farm homes and in the country
schools, as we'll as in the towns
and villages. The farmers will
not have to come to town to hear
the speakers, but the speakers
will go out to the homes of the
people and discuss their individ-
ual problems. Sixty speakers
will be divided into crews-two
speakers in each crew-and routed
in each county according to sched-
ule. Advance men will assist the
local people in each county in
making up their schedules of
meetings. The speakers will be
in a county from one to two days.
Each crew will hold three or four
meetings a day. Each speaker
will have large charts six feet
square to illustrate his lecture.
These charts will be prepared to
suit the conditions of the South.
The farmers and business men
of Mississippi, Arkansas and Ten
nessee are spending $4,000 in
money, and as much in service to
carry on this work.
Booklets have been prepared to
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and do business in the trade terri |
tory of Memphis. There are
books on live stock farming, boil |
weevil, cattle ticks, on various
crops, such as corn, soy beans,
COW peas, alfalfa and lespedeza,
gardening, canning and poultry.
The Memphis Bureau of Farm
Development is directing the
work. Sixty speakers will be Sc
lected from we'll known agricultur-
lists throughout the South-men
with national regulations.
Everyone prominent in his line. |
These speakers will talk on cattle,
hogs, poultry, soil, legume crops,
hog cholera, cattle ticks, boil wee
vii and the things particularly
adapted to each locality.
Here is another valuable fea-
ture of the campaign; from twelve
to fifteen of the speakers will have
special lectures charts to use in
the city and country schools.
These speakers will talk home
conveniences and sanitation, cook
ing, canning, home economics and
the things that go to make better
home life.
Do you want this campaign2 If
you do, write to the Bureau of
Farm Development, Memphis,
Tenn.
Do You Want This Work
In Your County?
These meetings will be held
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