THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



Southern States where there was no boll weevil, while Con- 

 gress increased its annual allowances where this pest existed. 



Many forms of campaign and propaganda have been 

 directed at the people through the extension service. It is a 

 great machine and is productive of good results when properly 

 used. A good example is found in the famous Circular 30, 

 ''Hog Raising in the South." This little eight-page pamphlet 

 was prepared by Dr. Ejiapp and issued direct from the office 

 of the Secretary of Agriculture. This special circular of in- 

 struction was used by hundreds of agents, and thousands of 

 farmers seemed to realize, for the first time, that the hog is 

 a grazing animal and that pork can be produced at small cost 

 where excellent pasture is provided for the hogs. He laid 

 out a systematic plan for such a pasture with its summer and 

 winter grasses, grains and legumes. That simple diagram 

 has been transcribed upon the ground in numerous communi- 

 ties with modifications in the plantings, and the increase in 

 hog production in the Southern States is largely due to this 

 simple, short, direct, epitomized bulletin of instruction, and 

 its use by the agents and demonstrators. 



The development of the Co-operative Demonstration 

 Work as an educational movement was very rapid. It was 

 natural emd logical that the boys should want to do the manly 

 thing and become demonstrators because their fathers were 

 succeeding in that line. It was only a matter of time, too, 

 when the principles and methods of the Demonstration Work 

 should reach the other members of the family. Before perma- 

 nent legislation had been enacted by Congress incorporating 

 the work into the statutory law of the land, it had become not 

 only Farm Demonstration Work, but also Home Demonstra- 

 tion Work, and women agents were appointed in all of the 

 Southern States. There were more than 500 men agents and 



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