THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



Two Years Old as a Farmer 



At one of the first meetings of the Farm Demonstration 

 Agents of Alabama a farmer came in to tell Dr. Seaman A. 

 KJnapp what he thought of his County Agent. He said: 

 '^ Doctor, when you sent that little strip of a school teacher 

 down our way I said that he couldn't tell us anything about 

 farming, but he came to me and asked that I take a ten- 

 acre demonstration in corn and also one in cotton. The 

 young man said that I'd make use of my knowledge and his 

 information as well as that of the best farmers in the county. 

 He also said that he'd try to bring the best information from 

 the college and Department to bear on our demonstrations. 

 He insisted that I must follow the instructions, agreed upon, 

 very carefully. Well, I made the best cotton and corn in 

 our part of the county, and I learned more about farming 

 than I have learned before in thirty years. I am going to 

 work the rest of my farm the same way." 



He said also that he was 64 years old, but only two years 

 old as a farmer. He closed with the exclamation: **0h, 

 Doctor, if you had only come along 30 years ago, I should 

 have been so much more successful and useful in my com- 

 munity. ' ' 



A County Agent Teli^ Why She Took Up Poultry Work 

 When the blight struck our tomatoes and discouraged 

 the girls it occurred to me that poultry, and particularly the 

 Co-operative Egg-Selling Associations, would be profitable. 

 So I obtained a list of fourteen Farmers' Bulletins on poul- 

 try and wrote to the Department of Agriculture to send me 

 forty copies each. In about three weeks I received a mail 

 sack about four feet in length filled with bulletins. These 

 I distributed and began to talk poultry and co-operative egg 



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