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Title: Extension work among Negroes 1920
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Mercier, W. B. (William Benjamin), 1868-
Subjects: Agricultural extension work United States African American farmers
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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perative organizations was $136,179. Theamount of products sold through cooperative organizations. $45,521,effecting a total saving to the farmers of $41,659. HOME DEMONSTRATION WORK. In the home demonstration work among the Xegro women andgirls 67 agents were employed. The work conducted by these agentswas largely along the same lines as that for the white people. Thereports of these Xegro women indicate that perhaps more was ac-complished in improving living conditions of the limited numberof women reached than in any other branch of the service. Notonly were the living conditions in the home improved, but valuableinstruction and demonstrations were given in sanitation, improvingthe home surroundings, equipping the home, preparation of food,and selection and making of the clothing. One of the most notable 14 Department Circular 190, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. features, perhaps, is the assistance and advice that has been given inthe care of the children and in sickness of all kinds.
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Fig. 4.—The old (A) and the new (B) in poultry houses. The following are some of the outstanding things that have beenaccomplished through the Negro women agents: Extension Work Among Negroes, 1920. 15 Clubs organized among women and girls, 1,571; membership,45,791; meetings held, 8,513; estimated attendance, 373,595; demon-strators listed in clubs, 15,232; estimated number influenced to makesome kind of improvements around the home, 56,156; total numberof garden demonstrations, 2,871; home gardens, 20,494; orchards andvineyards started, 1,589; winter gardens, 15,533. In the poultryclubs there were enrolled 10.317 members. The number of membersestablishing pure-bred flocks was 1,148; approximate number ofchickens raised by these clubs and demonstrators. 128,552; poultryhouses built (fig. 4) at suggestion of agents, 291; total value of poul-

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