Farmers Attention!
An Extension School
OF
AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS
FOR
COLORED FARMERS, BOYS, GIRLS, AND WOMEN
WILL BE HELD IN PERRY COUNTY AT
MARION, FEBRUARY 8-9
MORNING STAR COMMUNITY, FEBRUARY 11-12
COME AND BRING YOUR FAMILY!
THE PROGRAM OF THE SCHOOL WILL EMBRACE THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS AND MANY OTHERS.
—FOR MEN AND BOYS—
Diversified Farming for the South, “A Ray of Hope to the Man with the Hoe.”
How to Make the Cotton Farm Fertile—Every Farmer Must Feed Himself.
Care and Treatment of Live Stock—“To Thee, my Master, I offer my prayer; feed me, water and care for me, and when the day’s work is done, provide me with shelter.”—From the Horses’ Prayer.
Cotton Growing under Boll Weevil Conditions—Looks like Billie Boll Weevil is here to stay.
Waste caused by weeds, stumps and skips.
Corn—Seed testing.
Dairying and Its Possibilities in Alabama.
Sweet Potatoes—How to grow and save them.
—FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS—
“Home Made Home.”—A Home should be more than a place in which to eat and sleep.
The Health of the Family—Much responsibility rests on the Mother.
Child Welfare—Every 4th Negro baby dies before it is One Year Old. Fifty per cent of the diseases of Negro children under One Year can be prevented.
The Care of the Girls and Boys on the Farm—Make them your partners in the business of Home Making.
Demonstration in Cookery—Too few of our women and girls know how to cook.
A FREE PICTURE SHOW WILL BE GIVEN ONE NIGHT AT EVERY MEETING PLACE
This Extension School is being held under the auspices of the Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. The subjects will be discussed by experts from the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.
T.M. CAMPBELL, District Demonstration Agent,
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
Thus did Booker Washington in the very year of his death, with the aid of the National Government, launch the last of his many means for helping the people whose welfare lay ever nearest his heart—the Negro farmers. These Extension Schools are literally “going out ‘into the by-ways and hedges’” carrying to those who most need it Booker Washington’s gospel of better farming.
One of the great secrets of Mr. Washington’s success was his unerring instinct for putting first things first. In nothing that he did was this trait better illustrated than in the unceasing emphasis which he placed upon the fundamental importance of agriculture. He never forgot that over 80 per cent. of his people drew their living directly from the soil. He never ceased to impress upon the business and professional men of his race that their success was dependent upon the success of the farmers; and upon the farmers that unless they succeeded the business and professional men could not succeed. In short, he made Tuskegee first and foremost an agricultural school because the Negro race is first and foremost an agricultural race.