Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family: A Photo History of Indianas Early County Extension Agents (The Founders Series),Used

Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family: A Photo History of Indianas Early County Extension Agents (The Founders Series),Used

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Imagine Indiana farms at the turn of the last century. What comes from the land sustains us. Our farms and families depend on it. Having a good or bad year can mean the difference between prosperity and your family going hungry. Farmers knew how to provide. Throughout the 1800s, parents had passed their best knowledge on to their sons and daughters, who in turn taught their children triedandtrue methods for managing a farmmethods that provided consistency in a world of droughts, disease, and fluctuating markets. Before they abandoned a hundred years of proven practices or adopted new technology, they would have to be convinced that it was in their best interest. Enter county extension agents. Indiana county extension agents took up their posts in 1912, at a crucial juncture in the advancement of agriculture. The systematic introduction of hybrid seed corn, tractors, lime, certified seed, cowtesting associations, farm bureaus, commercial fertilizers, balanced livestock diets, soybeans, and 4H clubs were all yet to come. Many of the most significant agricultural innovations of the 1900s, which are commonplace today, were still being developed in the laboratories and experimental fields of landgrant colleges like Purdue University. Compiled from original county agent records discovered in Purdue Universitys Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family includes hundreds of rare, neverbeforepublished photographs and anecdotal information about how county agents overcame their constituents reluctance to change. They visited farmers on their farms, day after day, year after year. They got to know them personally. They built trust in communities and little by little were able to share new information. Gradually, their practical applications of new methodologies for solving old problems and for managing and increasing productivity introduced farmers and their families to exciting new frontiers of agriculture.

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