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Letters of Transmittal , I
Lexington, Kentucky, j  
January 2, 1924. v K
President Frank L. McVey,
University of Kentucky. i
My dear President I\IcVey:  
I have the honor to present the annual report of the Divis- -. I A
ion of Agricultural Extension of the College of Agriculture, 1 Q
· University of Kentucky, for the year ended December 31, 1924. T 
In this report will be found a statement of the various activities '  
of the past year, a list of publications and a financial statement . {
of receipts and expenditures. I  
Respectfully, 1 _ · 
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'1‘r1o1xms Coorim, Dcmt amd Director, `  
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Lexington, Kentucky, i  
January 15, 1925. y  
Honorable \Villiam J. Fields,  
Governor of Kentucky. Q
Sir:  
In accordance with an act of the Legislature of the State  
of Kentucky, approved March 15, 1916, I herewith submit the  
annual report of the Division of Agricultural Extension of the  
College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky, for the year  
ended December 31, 1924.  
Respectfully, `  
FRANK L. McV12Y, President. W
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CIRCULAR NO. 182 ` A
Annual Report of Agricultural Extension r
T. R. BRYANT, Assistant Director I
The year 1924 was the tenth year of agricultural extension i, A
work since the enactment of the Smith-Lever Law, passed by » .  
Congress and signed by the President of the United States on 4 
May 8, 1914. Periodic reports of the work have been made from A `  
year to year, but it seems proper with this annual report to re-    
view briefly the trend that the work has taken, and attempt to A  
convey some idea of what should be accomplished in the near T  
future. _ i  
A considerable number of the States, Kentucky included, ' , 
had already done a considerable. amount of extension work prior  
to the passage of the Smith-Lever Law and the funds made avail- ·  
able by that law and legislation within the several States in ae-  
ceptanee of its terms were, in the main, devoted to an expansion a
of the work already undertaken. The Smith-Lever Law very T 3
wisely placed extension work, in the various States, in charge I
of the Land Grant Colleges in each of which was established an ,  
Agricultural Experiment Station already in possession of a vast E
amount of valuable information, which needed to be assimilated {
and put into practice by the rural population thru actual de-  
monstration. These Experiment Stations, moreover, are still ,9
in operation, constantly developing new and useful information,  
even tho they are at the present time not being given the finan- A  
cial support to enable them to carry out fully the enlarged pro-  
gram of which they are capable.  
While the Smith-Lever Law did not go into detail concern-  
- ing the exact methods to be pursued in getting this work done, I  
still two cardinal principles found general acceptance thruout  
the Country. One was that a large proportion, if not consider-  
ably more than half of the funds were devoted to the employ-   A
ment of resident county representatives to do work in Agrieul- {
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`     i ture and Home Economics within their respective counties, with   .
;_{i»  ii ° the counties cooperating in their employment and selection,   I
      The second principle was that, in the main, the teaching Zi Z
    was to be performed by the demonstration method, altho the r
    ‘ lecture, the exhibit, the printed page and other methods were  
cgi s.     V contemplated and have proved their value. sp _
      . The public has not been slow to apprehend the value of .
    p this work as projected. This is evidenced by the fact that the
*  Y   3,000 agricultural counties in the United States now have 2,174 ~
§_j°]¥  county agricultural agents. There are also 851 county home _ .
    demonstration agents, and a sufficient number of the more pro _ *
E `,—i_·-  i; i A gressive counties have additional workers to bring the total num- ·
      ber of resident county workers up to 3,427.  
  Q3; " `— These county workers, in the nature of the case, must look s
  after all phases of agriculture and home economics and hence
  must be supported by specialists in the various branches such A
    as horticulture, dairying, agronomy, foods, etc. T
      . This represents in general the deployment of the forces for  
 i   P the accomplishment of the work contemplated and refers to work  
  A Q, with boys and girls as well as with adults. Scarcely any funda~ ·
  . _ mental changes in the plan have become necessary up to the  
  _ i present time. A  
  p The United States Department of Agriculture has also [Q
    maintained a sufficient number of workers to properly supervise
 fe and assist in the work, also to act as a sort of clearing house _
  lipi.   p thru which exceptionally successful methods in one State may `»-e_
  be properly presented in other States.  
    Farm organizations of various kinds have proved their  
    value to this work. In fact use has been made of all existing
    agencies that would assist in forwarding the work. These in· be
  clude schools, boards of trade, parent—teachers’ associations,  
   ‘ banks, community clubs, boards of health, Y. M. C. A., the public gi
  press and others. i
  The agricultural population has been regarded as a bul-
  wark of political as well as economic and social conservatism [
  and stability. This position has been occupied and maintained i
 2. by our rural population by reason, Erst, of their native ability , p _
  and intellectual acumen; second, on account of their compare- A
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with upon those in more restricted regions, and, third, because their . E
educational attainments have compared in the past more or less » ? 1
ling favorably with those of urban districts. f  ‘
tht In the past few decades, however, the cities have seemed to _
were apprehend more fully the value of the acquired ability to be V
had thru superior education and have made better provision for 1 i ‘
° of the education of their young people than have the inhabitants , ,
the of the rural districts. , Y i
Glu This education has extended not only to the branches em- T   l
Loma braced in the usual curricula of schools and colleges, but also 1 i »  
pm to vocational training in a multitude of forms, all calculated to _ l 1 i
mm` increase the skill of intellect and hand and thus give to the V  
rising generation every possible advantage.   _  
look Already this process has been going on long enough to make A  
ence its intiuence felt and a natural symptom has been the slipping . W i
Such out from our rural districts of many of the more alert and 1 i  
aggressive young people, naturally seeking those places Where i ,  
S for more things are going on, where progress seems more apparent l
Work and where they conceive more things to be worthy of their at- ·  
endl tcntion. T
i the Thus, by greater effort toward the development of what l
also native ability their people possess, the cities have gotten them- 1  
wise selves into a position to seem to be more desirable places than ,
the country, despite the fact that the open country has the . 1
mus? greater natural advantages. i i
ma) This is no new thing. No richer countries in natural re-  
their sources have ever existed than India, Russia or Mexico, and yet,  
_ thru neglect of self development, they have come to compare ‘
milg very unfavorably with such countries as Denmark, Switzerland i  
el ml or Holland, much less favored by nature, but where the people . Qi
mmi exerted themselves to bring into activity eve1·y faculty of mind  
uhm and hand.  
bu, _President Pearson, of Iowa State College, is quoted as  
itism having recently said: "\Vhen we find a much smaller proper- ,  
lined l101l of educated men in agriculture, than in the business with  
mm Which farmers deal, then we have go11e a long way toward peas-  
pam; ‘ antry in its worst form."   ,
stress The Smith-Lever Law is unique in Federal legislation, and Q

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      inaugurated a system of work far beyond comparison in scope  
5,,;     with anything of its kind ever instituted in any other country_  
  ii`ii     It may be well said to provide fully against the likelihood of _. 
    gil i A the coming into America of a system of peasantry as it is known Q5?
  i   ‘ in the old countries, for it is helping to maintain in our rural .  
    V districts a capable, intelligent and self-reliant population. jj
    ri _ Bearing all these things in mind, it is not surprising that E.
    e:··   extension work in agriculture and home economics should have ‘ Qi!
  _,`_ liiézllfi,   A found ready acceptance or that it should have been given full  
  opportunity to demonstrate its value to rural people and, thru  
    them, to the Country at large.  
    The work of the agricultural extension agents has become  
      more or less fully appreciated, but the equally valuable work in _
  i`Yg;,-if home economics has been slower to bc apprehended.
  The lot of many farm women leaves much to be desired. l
  If unrest exists on farms, its cause is to be found, mainly, not `
  in farming difficulties, but in unsatisfactory conditions in the
    , l housing, feeding and clothing of thc family and the uninterest-
  '_{ V ing character of community life.
  °_   it The average farm home could, at a very moderate cost, be i
        . g made infinitely more convenient and comfortable and the natural A
    _ A advantages of the farm could be much more fully utilized to the _  
    comfort and convenience of the family. It is toward these ends A
it  A that the work in home demonstrations is being directed. i ~
  All extension work, in both agriculture and home economics, A A
  is based upon the self-help idea and its progress will be in al-
 _- most direct proportion to the amount of local leadership that .i_'
    can be brought into action.
p`       With full cooperation on the part of local authorities and
  private citizens, men and women, there. is scarcely any limit to ·
    the amount of improvement in agriculture, home and community l
  `_,‘   ‘  that can be accomplished. The work is just begun. Another
 e f ten years of earnest elfort will place the farmer and his family
  in an infinitely more enviable position, I
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Annual Report for the Year 1924 9 _ 
WPG County Agents L
t1‘y_ C. A. MAHAN, State Leader  
i of Working in the belief that the fundamental basis of County ·  A
own Agent work is to help people to help themselves, the plan of A J
ural building community programs and assigning local leaders to `
look after the various projects has been continued with added _ ° .  i
that vigor during the past year. As a result, with the addition of .
[ave only two counties during the year, the number of community i.
full programs has increased from 173 for 1922 and 439 for 1923 to   A
phru 539 for 1924, In 1923 there were 2,480 community leaders and ’ i` , ,
in 1924 these were increased to 2,914. With the help of these V A  
omc 2,914 local leaders more than 21,000 demonstrations were con- · _ ` i
1 in ducted during the year, or 312 for each county having an agent.  
With this volume of work being accomplished the old criti- .` · I
rod_ cism that Extension helps only the best farmers is being over- , A  
not come. Many are now reached who were not the best farmers A  
the when the work was started with them. That this method has _ ` }
·est- been effective is shown by the volume of results reported in the =  
annual tabulation reports as compared with previous years. Not  
’ be only have the old projects been enlarged but some important `  
Ha] new projects have been developed, for example, the use of marl. ·
the Marl has been found in more than 50 counties and one to thirty l
nds demonstrators have been secured in each county having an Agent. l Y
Another new project for many communities was the fight  
Lies, against the Mexican Bean Beetle whose entrance into Kentucky . p  
ap is seriously threatening one of the main garden vegetables. 1
hat The U. S. purebred sire campaign has been given emphasis  
this year and Kentucky is now first in this campaign. This is  
md 3 position much coveted and sought after by all live-stock pro- I_
No ducing states. Before this campaign was started Kentucky .  
my ranked second from the bottom of the list of contesting states, .  
he,. The number of counties with Agents has been increased from -_
my 64 reported for last year to 67 for this year. In addition to  
these, Spencer, Franklin and one or two others are now making  
steps toward taking up the work. To meet these vacancies and _  
changes which usually occur about the end of each year, 6 As-  
sistant Agents are now employed and have been placed with  
trained Agents to spend a few weeks for training and observa.-   A
tion, before being offered to counties as full time Agents. f

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I   NEW RECORD BOOKS FOR PLANS AND RESULTS   1
    1 Early in 1924 each Agent was required to fill in a blank 1 ` z
  *   { furnished by this office showing the plan of work for the county, i  
    as based upon his community—built programs, indicating in each  
    » case the projects, with the leaders and goals for each. At the I
gi?     . end of the year these were returned to the Agents to have them " 3
    , ` fill in the results accomplished so as to check these with the ‘    
tr -     goals planned. This is considered the best system of recording 6 ,
1.}* i ', A plans and determining the results secured by County Agents _
  thus far devised. This is a good method of making a picture  
  , of the work for the County Agent, as it stresses the need of `
   Q T community-built programs and the community leaders for each;
    . it calls for a summary of work by projects. Of equal import- C
__ W`  ance is the blank for budgeting the time among the various proj-
  ects. To do this an Agent will feel the need of a number of
  V well-made community programs and he will know both what he
jiifyi,-it _ is planning to do and when these things are to be done.
  , · This report form facilitates supervision, as the plans for a
 t {Q , - whole county are condensed into a few pages and the inspection
’,ij;j]§·   requires only a few minutes to a county. One of the greatest _
      _ values of one of these is that in the event of a change of Agents
  it the new Agent may know at once the communities, the projects
    ` being carried on in each community, and the local leaders to
if   A look to for help in those communities with each project.
  To give an indication of the volume of work done by the
 pf County Agents and local leaders, assisted by the Extension Spe-
  cialists, a few Hgures taken from the annual tabulated reports
    are given below;
  No. counties with Agents ..............,................,_.....______________________________   67
  ~;£_ No. communities building extension program ,.............,_......,,__________ 539
    N0. community leaders in community.bui1t programs ____________________ 2,914
  Total number of local leaders, including community leaders,
  selected in community-built program ________________________________________ 4,149
  No. demonstrations (result and method) by County Agents and _
_¤¤§;#4;;§; community leaders ..................................____________ _ _____________________________ 21,471
  No. I`€Sl1ll2 demonstrations carried thru year __________________________ _ _______ 11,622
  No. farm visits made by Agents ______________________________________ _ ___________________ 46,736
  No. farms Visited ........,..,..___,,,,__,______________________ _ _______________________________ _ _________ 16,666
  No. home visits made by Agents _________________________________________________ _ ________ 4,646
  N0. homes visited .............,__,_,,____________ _ __________________________________ _ __________________ 3,663
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N0_ office calls relative to work (office) ........................................ 47,849 ·  
(Telephone) ..,..................................................................................... 27,352   l
aglk No, individual letters written ................................................................ 46,347   i
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the No, training meetings for local leaders ............................................ 408 »
lem Attendance of local leaders ................................................................ 2,063 p
the No, demonstration meetings held .................................................... 4,927 ‘
_ Attendance ,.,............................................ . ................................................ 89,750 i
mg No, farmers institutes and short courses ...................................... 429 1 E
ents Attendance ................................................................................................ 8,062 ; '
ure Junior Club camps assisted ................................................................ 34 ` `. `
Of Total attendance (including adults) .............................................. 36,482 · , §g
Other meetings ..........................................................,........................... 2,874 ,  
Chi Attendance .........................................,..l.........,,.._,....,._..._.,._..................... 180,409 · . i
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i of No. breed associations organized, dairy cattle ............................ 88 * E
he No. breed associations organized, other stock .............................. 15 ‘ ,  
Total number members in purebred sires campaign ....,............... 2,087 ` . 3
No. farms installing drainage systems ___,__,,..,__._,..,.,...,,................ 71 ,  
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,1- a Acres drained ._....r........._,...._,,...,.__.._,....__,,._,_,....,__........,,_..__,....,....,.....,.... 2.045 . j
ion N0. water systems installed ,_..__.....................,......_,............................ 43 l
_ t N0. lighting systems installed ..,......__...........,................................... 33 ·  
BS No. farms clearing land _,,._________,__,_,,,__.________,____,______.,_.__,__,...___,____,,..,.. 279 €
Hts Acres of land cleared ...........................,.............................................. 2,087 1
ects  
to No. Result No. Acres I  
Dems. Started No. Completed Involved ,
th Corn .................................... 430 250 1,599 . _;
8 Wheat ................................ 125 66 994 `  
p6' OMS .....,.............................. 78 67 282 »
rts Rye ...................................... 83 69 435 3
Barley ..........................,..... 173 146 2,566 _?
Alfalfa ................................ 612 510 3,215 C
67 Soybeans ........................._ 1,201 928 8,119 V  
539 Sweet clover .._.,,__.___,.._____ 310 251 1,460  
914 Crimson clover ________________ 36 19 133 it-
Clover ..............................._ 378 212 2,530 ,
149 Cowpeas ....,....._,__..____,_,,____ 216 202 1,508 {4
LeSpedeza ....,.............,,,... 243 164 1,449 ,§
471 Pastures .........,..........,,.._,,, 184 175 1,675  
622 Other legumes ................ 42 16 61 '  
786 Irish potatoes ......,,__.___,._. 603 512 801  
  SlV€€t potatoes __,.,,,,_.__,,,,     9  
940 T0 °¤ . 409 304 51 Q V
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)0S obacco ............................ 1,141 782 3,458 A
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ifi   Tree fruits ........................ 614 470 1,646 f  
    Brush and small fruit ....l. 83 66 104 J  
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    Market gardening .......... 91 121 86 °
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Home E¢ODOIHiCS   {
MYRTLE WELDON, State Leader  
The. aim of home economics extension work in Kentucky is h
to extend to home makers the opportunity to study home making `
problems under trained leadership, to increase their skill, add p l . 
to their information and develop their appreciations to the end .
that they may apply the contributions of science and art to their Q
chosen profession, home making, and may more effectively con- , Q V
A tribute to the well-being of their communities. One sociologist V l l ,
has estimated that the home maker employs the skill and infor- A p ` A   
mation of thirty-two different vocational and professional groups · , `  
outside the home, She is a cook, a baker, a food preserver, a  
food producer, a dietitian, a baby specialist, a child specialist,   l f
a home nurse, a scrub woman, a laundrcss, a seamstress, a dress- ,  
maker, an interior decorator, a buyer, and so on. lf her home ,  
is to be beautiful she must have an appreciation of beauty as _ `  
well as an understanding of the principles of color and design. =  
lf her home is to be healthful she must have higher standards  
of health as well as an understanding of the principles of hygiene, i i
sanitation and nutrition. She must be able to care for the sick, Q
to meet emergencies. She must know something about equip- I
ment, its selection, arrangement and use. lf her home is to be A  
efficiently run and managed she must intelligently study her g
. tasks, her methods of work, she must organize her time in order i  
that the mechanical tasks of housekeeping may be accomplished i l
with a minimum expenditure of time and energy and that there {
may be a reserve to devote to the mental, moral, social and  
spiritual phases of home making. The home maker of the future  
should provide not only food for the growing body which will l Q,
build strong bone and muscle and blood, but also mental, moral l  
and spiritual food which will build alert and active minds, ,
strong moral fiber and a finer faith. She should have the social  
and educational welfare of her community at heart.  
One of the outstanding accomplishments of the year is the ·  
organization of the Home Makcrs’ Association in twelve coun-  
, ties. The Association is an organization of the women who  
wish to identify themselves with the home economics extension   .
service and receive the benefits of the home economics extension  ·i

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?·     T program. The object of the organization is to increase the in- i V h.
  5   terest and participation of the women in the program, to give   ij
    them a real feeling of responsibility, to get them thinking and   t]
    working together. The County Home Makers’ Association, be— y ct
  —;.· g   i sides offering to the rural women of the county a means of ty
    if working together, demands for them the recognition which they ` S
  ·i·'     , i have long deserved and enables them to link their work with the . b
        existing organizations for the purpose of upbuilding their com-  
i   ij,   munities. T 0
  Another development which deserves mention is the in-   l'
    creased use of local leadership. It is conceded by educators V
  and sociologists that real progress is achieved only when the in- — t
  dividual or community is mobilized to solve its own problems. · l'
    Only thru the development of local initiative, local participa· _ p
  tion, local responsibility, can any lasting or far-reaching results i
  111 extension education be aclneved. The county organization c l
    and subsequent county-wide extension program have done much r  
  V to encourage a feeling of responsibility and to promote leader- _, l
‘     _p ship in carrying on the extension program. Quoting from the 1 i
  annual reports of the county workers: "The women are awake
    l V to the benefits of a county-wide program. This alone has done »
  _ more towards the development of leadership than any method '
)   that has been tried in this county. NVe find the leaders eager l
  to do the work assigned to them and, in some cases, this leader-
    ship could have been developed sooner had we placed confidence
    _ in the women. We feel that it is a decided step ahead in exten-
{ ,.,`     sion work and it has been proven in the county that better re-
  sults will be gotten and better follow-up work will be done if a
  local. leader   trained and in turn giyes the work to her com-
  munity than 1f the subject matter is given by someone else."
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  The extension projects carried on in Kentucky this year ‘  
  may be classified under three main divisions, Clothing, Food, l 4
  and Home Improvement. _
  Clothing _  
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in" home economies extension program, The women like to do - 
rive things with their hands, they are gratitied with the results which Q 4
md they can see, they can count results in terms of dollars and j 
b€· cents saved, and the making of a hat is a real opportunity for
of creative activity and self-expression o11 the part of the women. `·
hey ` Since September, 1924, all millinery work has been carried on , ' » 
the by leaders trained by the specialist at a three-day training . ,
om- school. The women were taught the principles of selection, ly
constructive processes, making and placing of trimmings. The . i _- L
in, leaders returned to their communities and helped the interested V Vi
mrs women make hats. Excellent reports have been received from , A ig
iH_ the counties. The women have assumed the responsibility of ‘ L i
,mS_ leadership beyond all expectation. One of the most gratifying .  
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results is the quality of work done. The millinery work does iv
Veal, Mot 100k llli0 H‘111?1iQll1‘ O1' home made work. l\lany of the women _  
Oodv have never been able to wear such becoming hats before. One  
l county reports that in the spring when the specialist gave the _  
work to the community groups 76 hats were made and in the  
fall when the work was given to the local leaders who, in turn,  
repeated the work to their communities, 200 hats were made.   _
p the Such a comparison is indicative of the more far-reaching ellieets  
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  ? I of locals leadership. A circular on "Hat Selection, Renovation S   3.
, fj     . and Construction" has been prepared by the specialist in charge   ,
      of this program.   4_
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`A.’     j Five counties have done some worlt in tailoring. The proj-  
  It ll I ect has been conducted for the first time this year thru local _   6-
    I A leaders} training schools. The leaders met With the Specialist _  
    Y I four successive days at some central point in the county. At  
    this time. each leader made a coat and received instruction in   in
`,{»_; s<`r, i   various tailored finishes which can bc used on many garments.   gr,
  {*3; U Reports from the counties show new coats made, coats remodeled. »   ,,,1
  p»i\_ _   childrens coats and boys’ suits made as a result of this PI