The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-08-24
NEGRO FARM AGENTS DOING
THEIR SHARE TO WIN THE
WAR.
BY Clement Richardson.

Tuskegee Institute, Ala.
August II, 1917.
What are you doing to help win
the war;" This is the query which
District Agent T. NJ. Campbell sent
out over Alabama to the Negro L. 5,
Farm Demonstration Agents and /
Club workers, under the Smith-Lever /
Act From every worker encourag-
ing reports come back, I. II. Toodle' I
Dallas County Agent, launched gar
den campaigns, taught fruit and vege-
table drying and canning, and taught
remedies for treating sick poultry
and livestock.
F. L. Bennett, another agent IN
Wilcox County, where the Hoods,
brought total destruction 10 food
crops last year. this wear be stress
ed food crops with the rnsrlt th't
Wilcox has the greatest outlook in
it's history for a big corn crop. The
people I'm this county are now plant
, late gardens.
b. T. Hill. Madison County Agent
in North Ala, began his work a.
midst shortage of food stuas. He
too stressed the raising of all kind.
q, of food and feed i'm addition TO which
l he has inoculated SIS hogs for chol,
y era and vuccinatad 276 cattle fol
3, hlack-leg.
II Miss N. Juanita Coleman, Home
J., Demonstration Agent, is working a
Ut .moug the farm women teaching then
j, to can. sew, preserve and keep house
y as is also Miss Susan r. Whitfield
IT Indeed the work OF women agent
often brings more immediate result
. than the work of the men, due &
J., the fact that actual returns can b
" had on given operation in one, les
!! son, while THE men have to wal
Is several months before they can con
~ vince their pupils.
~ Hogs and poultry have been great
u " increased in Hale and Mareng
= Counties by the work of Agent p.
~ Brown. The teaching of SHALLOW
~ cultivation in Greene County b.
= Agent ]. d. Barnes saved the corr
9 crop during the dry weather. Agen
- c. ID. Menagee in Lee County taugh
! planters to pick up Squares" AM
l. burn them and destroy the stalks
8 thus saving the crop from the Dol
u - weevil. Moreover, this work is brin
W ing an unprecedented prosperity t
~ his county. In Lowndes Count
y Agent n. l.. Johnson reports an in
u, crease in production of from to 10
" per cent more corn per farm, 90 I
=. rs per cent more sweet potatoes, 10
~ TO 500 per cent more velvet beans, Z
II nnDnntS
" good gardens s to 10 months in tn
Is year. Agent j. B. Mcpherson c
VI Randolph County in addition to pre-
a. yailing on the farmers has all of tn
. 10 Negro schools and churches co-opera
- ting in his food production move
~ ments.
Il A feature of these replies was tn
- - report of Agent Harry Simms who
lo conducting the Movable Schools ft
., Negro farmers, their wives and chi
:" dren. Selecting seed corn from tn
y stalk, specimen hogs to teach tt
~ men and crocus sack rugs, came
~ goods and the like for the wome
49, 49,, he, with his helpers, gives concre
Nv lessons of the good and the bad
' " farming and in farm life. Moreove
-. he takes up in detail the question
g" health, discussing the use of OTTO
~ brushes, screens, more than one roo
~ ~, houses to live in, white wash, pail
~ toilets. especially sanitary toilett
We Backward in health protection
"' Greene County, where he held one
49, his schools, all farmers promised
"a take steps towards correcting the
y. weaknesses Immediately. hide
w. one or two built sanitary toilets du
Us ing the weekly session Of the scho,