AGRICULTURE

Vol. 1,, No. 12. BROOKINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA March, 1923

ROME EXTENSION AGENTS THEY LIKE FARlU AfJCOUNTING AGENT WORKS THROUGH HAVE LITTLE REST TIME LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS Farm accou!)tS is being taught in all One husband said, "She is getting to of the common schools of the state as The Whitewood Vaney Poultry club, be a better cook every day." This state­ one-fifth of the eighth grade work in the St. Onge Holstein club, the Spearfish ment was made by a man in Grant arithmetic. The boys and girls like it Duroc club, the Redwater Valley Duroc county whose wife is a member of the and the teachers agree that it is more club, the Whitewood ,.Valley Duroc club, nutrition clubs organized by Charlotte practical and useful than the cube root the Black Hills Chester White associ­ E. Biester, the home extension agent. and compound interest which it ation, the Black Hills Hereford associ­ The hot lunch work was started in a displaced. ation, the Lawrence County Farm Bu­ school upon the second visit by Miss The Extension service account book, reau Cooperative Marketing association, Biester after the youngsters had voted which is used by the pupils, is sold at and the Crow Peak, W_hitewood Valley against it on the first and Centennial.Commun­ visit stating that they did ity clubs were some of not want to wash dishes. the organizations men­ Ten women spent an en­ tioned in the January tire afternoon learning the monthly report of Evan construction of new deco­ rative stitches. Twelve of W. Hall, the county agent the 15 women attend:lng of Lawrence county. In a lesson on "short cuts in each case some work had sewing" had never made been done for one of these, the bound button hole demonstrated by the home organizations all of which extension· agent. had been developed under The above information . the competent .leadership was taken from the Janu­ of Mr. Hall during his ary monthly report of the past three years service home agent for Grant in the county. county and the report ·· Working through organi­ zations is a much better continues: means of carrying exten­ _ · Fifty-one women attend­ sion work to a large num.;. ed the first demonstration her of people in the coun­ of the series "the three ty than working through food needs" at five club individuals. Mr. Hall All of the organized work for the improvement of agricultural conditions states, "The community meetings. Local leaders in Faulk county centers iri the county agent's office meetings are worth all of and demonstrators in two the time that the county other groups are sponsoring the bot cost by the college. It has been placed agent can give to them. They give him school lunch in their communities. The upon the list of free texts in 60 counties a chance to study local agricultural· and is bought by the children in three problems and many of these problems secretary of one of the dubs reported others. More than 16,000 copies of ·the can be talked. over at the meetings that. 12 of the 13 women resent car­ p account book have been distributed - through the medium of debates. One or, ried out the suggestions given in the during· the· past six months. my.. clubs very ably debated the follow­ meat demonstration .of last month. Chief c-redit for pl!;lcing farm ac­ ing question recently: 'Resolved that Twenty-one women at 2 meetings on counts in the course of study is due M. agricul!ure holds .greater possibilities M. Guhin, director of the Rural and for the coming generation than any the demonstration in the meat work Americanization division, State Depart­ other profession'." this month watched with great inter­ ment of Education. The Extension est the pan broiling of meat which . service cooperates in publishing and OYER TWO HUNDRED E�ROLLED seemed to be a very new idea to them. furnishing to teachers a manual and "Ten of the 13 girls' sewing club guide for teaching the subject. groups have completed their first prob­ Boys and girls in farm management lem and three are through with the SPRING CONFERENCES IN APRIL clubs keep financial records of the second garment. The local leaders are business on their home farms and en­ assisting in a splendid manner which roll for an extension course· in farm The regular spring. conferences of the accounts for the enthusiasm with which county agents will be held in April. The management. the work is being done." conferences will be held at: Sioux Falls, During the summer they have a club South Dakota home agents do not April 10 and 11; ·watertown, April 12 picnic and a club tour. District and · have much time to spend sitting in the and 13; Mobridge, April 17 and 18; and State Fair club camps are open to them. office, for in Miss Biester's report it is Rapid City, April 19 arid 20. Business and pleasure are thus com­ shown that 23 home extension club At these conferences unifonn policies bined in such a way as to make this meetings were attended during the of procedure in carrying out demonst�a­ club an attractive one. month, beside the visiting of a number tions on marketing and production are Clubs are formed iri schools having 5 of girls' clubs, a talk was given to the worked out, ideas are exchanged on the or more eighth grade or high �chool Milbank women's club on the home ec­ best and most efficient methods of put­ students who have studied farm ac­ onomics movement, and the conducting ting over projects, and inspiration is re­ counts. The average age of membel'S is of a bread judging contest in a club ceived from forceful speakers to go out 15 years. On February 1 there were 21 not included under the home te . and give the greatest possible service to farm management clubs with an aggre­ organization. ltur i� of the state. gate enrollment of 211 boys and girls. .:It!. 7 J ,#­ ,5447.�7 / �/-2 SOUTH DAKOT A .f4.;X'fENSION REVIEW, BROOKINGS

South Dakota Extension Review PROGRAl\1 01' lVORK l\IEETINGS

Published monthly at Brookings. South Da­ kota, by the Extension Service of South Dakota George S. Hansen, county agent in State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arta Potter county reports some successful and the United States Department of Agricul­ ture. cooperating, in the interest of Extension program of work meetings as follows: work in agriculture and home economics. "The past month nine meetings were held in various parts of the county for Entered as second-class matter April 27. 1922, the purpose of outlining a program of at the post office at Brookings. South Dakota, under the Act of August 24, 1912. work. At these meetings a summary of special rate of post­ Acceptance for mailing at the last year's work, especially ·the age provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1 917, authorized May 12, 1922. work on soybeans, corn, alfalfa and po­ tatoes, was given. This brought out EDITORIAL BOARD some of the results of this work to a Paul W. Kieser. W. F. Kumlien, greater number of people and gave a A. J. Dext er·. Horace M. Jones. better idea of the extension work that Composed and printed by Students in State we are trying to do in Potter county. College School of Printing. Following this a general outline of the

Address correspondence to Editor, South Da­ next year's work was given and open kota Extension Review, Brookings. South Dakota. discussion held on the various parts. As a result a fairly complete program has March, 1923 been developed and a few cooperators secured". County agent offi ces are beginning to L. V. Ausman, former county agent hum from the extra activities of the in Codington county, had a fine series spring season. of meetings of a similar nature a year . MRS. HELEN DAY LARSBAUGH Farmers in large numbers are makmg ago and secured practically all his co­ Home extension agent for Spink, Faulk, Beadle good the usual demands for sources of and Hand counties. First worker on the four­ operators in his demonstration work clean seeds. county plan. Has about 2.000 women enrolled in through these meetings. her work. Headquart('rs at Huron. Dozens and hundreds of samples of seed are being ·brought in for testing. Interestiug Plan f01· Pig· .Club A�OTHER TESTIN{� ASSOCIATION Innumerable inquiries are being made ,about the probable situation in regard Business men, farmers, and boys and to farm help this season. The Watertown Cow Testing associa- girls are all members of a pig club Calls are pouring in in connection with · , tion was organized February 26, elected under an interesting plan which has farrowing troubles, sows going down, officers and employed a tester to begtn been adopted for the pig club work in hairless pigs, and losses at birth. testing their cows for milk and butter­ Codington county for 1923. Each busi­ Individuals are asking about the rules fat production for one year. The testing ness man and farmer joining, becomes for growing certified seed. started March 1,. Har old E. Erickson a sponsor member and has a boy or girl Community clubs want debate materi­ of Salem having been employed to do associated with him in the club as the · al and ·a speaker for their last meeting the work. active member. The sponsor member prior to the cessation of club activities There are 26 members of the associa­ assists in financing the active member, during the rush of spring's work . tion, the majority of them living south makes frequent visits to see the pigs, Last minute enrollments in the pig, and east of Watertown. Officers elected assists in tours and assumes a personal corn, potato and other boys' and girls' were Fred Brown, president; C. C. interest in the success of his associate clubs are coming in. Harris, vice president; S. B. Carothers, .active member. The active member Here is a boy who needs help in ar­ secretary-treasurer; and C. B. Moor­ owns, feeds and cares for the sow and ranging a loan at the bank to buy a pure­ house,· Mr. Keyes of Henry; and Mr. her litter and pays for the sow from bred sow, there is a father who needs Flint to serve on the board of directors. the first sale of pigs. lining up on the calf club, and here again Great inter-est has been displayed in Active and sponsor members sign an a local leader for a sheep club has cow testing association work this year. agreement to abide by the rules of the backed out and another must be secured. Codington and Day counties have or­ board of directors which consists of the A group of men down in one corner of ganized one each. Hamlin, Brookings, local leader of each breed and enough the county suddenly co me to life and Moody and Clark have taken the initial business men io make a board of nine. want immediate help in organizing a steps and - will probably soon have The purchasing of sows is done by a shipping association they have talked similar organizations. An association purchasing committee consisting· of the about all winter. needs 26 members 'to operate most county agent and two breeders who do Twe:J?.ty-five to thirty office calls each efficiently. not have stock for sale. day, the telephone ringing incessantly, The details of the club have been the stenographer making the typewriter worked out by County Agent Ausman 'Iurner W right, formeTly livestock talk, yea, verily, the county agent earns cooperating with committees from the spedalist of the Arkansas Agriculture his keep during the spring months at Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis, and college, has been engaged as livestock Jeast.-A. J. D. Rotary clubs. The club is proving very specialist in South Dakota to succeed popular and 55 active members have J. C. Holmes, who again goes back into Community Actldtie In Corson already signed up. the wool work for the State Sheep and Wool Growers' association. M1·. Wright County Agent Osborne of Corson Pleasant Ridge township. Forty peo­ comes highly recommended for the posi­ county gives some interesting infor­ ple were present. tion. Prior to his four years of eminentlv mation on local community activities in "A Farm Bureau community meeting ·successful livestock specialist work i� his January report. was held at White Deer with an attend­ Arkan as, he was connected with the U. "The Keldron community was reor­ ance of 62. Agricultural films were S. Bureau of Markets for three years, ganized as a Farm Bureau community shown and plans were formulated for four years as a professor of animal hus­ center, January 9, by the county agent. the purchase of a moving picture rna-. bandry at the Kansas State Agricultural Moving pictures of agricultural inter­ chine, and the installation of wire college, and spent one year of speeial est were shown, and lectures from an fence telephones. investigational work on livestock hus­ officer from each of the two other com­ "A Farm Bureau community meeting bandl·y in Europe. Mr. Wright has a munity centers were given to show wa held in Pioneer township on Jan­ plea ing per onality, is a good speaker, what could be done under real cooper­ uary 26, at which time an illustrated a clea1· thinker, and his addition to the ation. Forty-two people were present. lecture on balancin rations for dairy extension force in South Dakota i a "A Farm Bureau community center cattle and hogs was given, as mentioned decided a set to the livestock intere ts was organized by the county agent in above, under the e respective headings." of the t ate.

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Lester Liebbert of Bushnell, Brook­ CLUB NOTES ings county, at present a student in the School of Agriculture, State college, Items of ·general interest tQ club folks. was invited to take part on the pro­ Edited by Paul J. Scarbro gram of the Farmers' Institute an<;! Mid-Winter fair at Schaller, Iowa, BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB WORU: January 4, 5, . and 6, 1923. Lester has IN A NUrrsHELL FOR 1922 been a club member for the past five years and was state corn club champion 46 Counties conducted club work. for three successive years._ Today he 15 diffeJent club projects organized. has one of the finest Duroc herds in 581 standard clubs organized. Brookings county and is recognized as. 6,375 members enrolled. one of the progressive young farmers 2,684 members made a complete final re­ of the state. His invitation to appear port of their work. on the program at the Schaller fair is 7 club camps were held. evidence of his good club work. 27 county fairs had club exhibits and -0- demonstrations. The South-Soo So\v-Litter club of 42 counties were represented at the Minnehaha county has re-enrolled for its State Fair. fourth year's work with a membership 432 exhibitors attended the State Fair. of 20. David Warren is local leader and 671 club exhibits sent to State Fair. Mabel Klapprodt is secretary. 101 demonstration teams competed for -0- honors at State Fair. All club enrollments must be on file at $97,644.14 was the value of· club pro­ the state office by April 1 to make the ·ducts above cost of pl'Oduction. A study in made-over garments as a result of club members eligible for the State Fair girls• clothing club work. A new dress out of an -()- . old coat. Club camp and state honors. Be sure Miss Keithline, cooperating with Coun­ you� enrollments are in by this date. ty Agent Sloan, organized six girls' clubs -o- the first week in February. A Goyernor on Club Work in clothing The Garfield Township club of Clay In every case when the gil·ls' work was county has re-enrolled with 15 members. to the women's clubs, the wo­ Former Governor Lowden of Illinois presented This is one of the first sow-litter clubs men were greatly interested and assist­ had the following to say about boys' organized in the state. It also holds the ed in organizing. their girls for club work. and girls' club work: "There is no more l'ecord for sending the largest number They said, "We must have work for our hopeful movement in agriculture today of its members to the School of Agricul­ girls, although we may not get it for than the boys' and girls' club work. ture, State college. Clifford Hedeen, the ourselves." No difficulty was experi­ The trouble has been that we have never present local leader of the club, is a enced in getting capable leaders for begun the teaching- of important sub­ graduate of the School of Agriculture. these clubs. jects to the farm people soon enough." Ernest M. Hanson and Oliver C. Hanson, -o- -o- charter members of the club, are stud­ Mrs. F. I. Sheffer, local leader of the The following news items were sent ents in the School of ·Agriculture this · girls' clothing club at Oacoma, Lyman in by Charlotte Biester, home extension year. county, makes the following statement: agent of Grant county: -O- �'I had no idea the girls would be so in­ Crowded conditions in the Revillo I J. H. Hamilton, county agent of Min­ terested in their work when started schools have made it impossible to in­ nehaha county, has resigned to accept a with them as local leader. Every day corporate the home economics work in position with the Sioux Falls Savings some of the girls come to my home for the school curriculum. Nevertheless, bank as dairy club director. Mr. Hamil­ instructions or help with their work." by assuming the leadership for the ton will devote his time to promoting What a host of friends Mrs. Sheffer will girls' work the Revillo local leaders dairy clubs. He was county club leader l1ave in her club girls and such a splen­ are offering the full four years of sew­ of Minnehaha county before accepting did opportunity for personal service. ing to the girls in that community. the position of county agent. He is ex­ When men and women are ''rilling to give With the assistance of Mrs. F. Hock­ perienced in club work and will give ef­ real leadership to otir boys and girls, the ett, Mrs. Wm. Legge, and Mildred Mara, ficient leadership and cooperate with all juv�nile reform . problems will all be the groups have been organized and are dairy clubs of the state. solved. carrying on the instructions. Evelyn -0- Daylor was chosen president of the CHANGES IN PERSONNEL Members of all the dairy clubs will be fourth year group while Vera Dillman interested to know that the state cham­ has been chosen as secretary. The of­ pion dairy judging team selected at the ---­ ficers in the first year club are as fol­ W. F. Schnaidt, an Ames graduate, State Fair next September will be sent lows: Edith Derr, vice president; Laura who has been farming in partnership to the National Dairy exposition and Derr, secretary-treasurer. This group with his brother at. Menno, has been em­ ployed World's Dairy congress at Syracuse, New has nine members enrolled and is work­ as county agent by the Douglas York, October 6-13, 1923. ing under the direction of Mildred County Farm Bureau. Mr. Schnaidt as­ -u- Mara. Although these girls did not sumed his duties March 1, succeeding The club exhibits were one of the chief start their work until the first of Jan­ George B. Kennard, who has already be­ attractions of the, Lincoln County Mid­ uary, they are now starting on their gun his work as county agent in Minne­ Winter fair held at Canton, February 7, third requirement. Mrs. F.· Hockett is haha county. 8 and 9. The Lincoln county clubs are - -o-- . the local leader for the second and doing some excellent work and will make third years' work. This gr�up, known Sumner E. Davis, formerly county a good showing at the State Fair. Pro­ as the True Biue club, has for its presi­ agent in Moody county, met the qualifi­ fessor Coleman, club leader and Smith­ dent, Elsie Hewitt. Edna Tiller is the cations of the Haakon County Farm Hughes instructor at Lennox, brought secretary and treasurer. Bureau directors. his entire club membership to the fair. The Revillo sewing clubs are repres­ -o- -o- entative of one of the outstanding A rearrangement of the personnel in Anangements are being made to hold pieces of club work in Grant county. the state office has resulted in George club camps at the following places dur­ Four years ago the first clubs were or­ H. Valentine, formerly assistant boys' ing June and July: Lennox, Madison, ganized by ::Hay Kiethline, the first and girls' club leader, going in as assist­ Clark, Pierre, St. Lawrence, Rapid City, Grant county club leader and now the ant agronomy specialist; Suzan Z. Wild­ Ardmore, and Newell. All club leader state clothing specialist. Miss Kieth­ er becoming state specialist in foods, and and club member should plan to attend line organized the girJ who now are Mae KiethHne, state specialist in cloth­ the camp nearest home. taking the fourth year work. ing. SOUTH DAKOTA EXTENSION REVIEW, BROOKINGS

meeting at which time it was decided junior clubs covering 40 cows were held_ HIGH SPOTS that enrollments for the women's work Three demonstrations on the selection . Items worth more than passing no­ should close November 1 and enroll­ of breeding flocks in poultry were· also tice as taken from the County Exten-. sion Agents' monthly reports. ment in one club should be limited to held. Leaders who are to demonstrate 20. It was unanimously agreed that all fruit and strawberry culture at the com­ members of the clubs should be given munity meetings i_n February were as­ J. 1\I . . Browning--Fifteen high grade the opportunity of being demonstrators sembled at a conference and A. L. dairy cows were brought into the county and that only demonstrators should be Ford of the college gave them many through the assistance of the county permitted to attend training schools. good pointers. One community meeting' agent. Sixty purebred boars, 5 pure­ Fifteen girls' club meetings were at­ was-held, Mr. Ford talking on strawber­ bred bulls, and 30 purebred sheep were tended with an attendance of 123 mem­ ry culture. Eight demonstrators in this .exchanged through the office. One four bers and five demonstrations given them project were secured as a result. Two­ day . short course was held at Veblen in "pattern making," 7 in "short cuts" men were assisted in the laying out of with special attention given to the care and 5 in "care of the sewing machine. " farm fields and buildings and one com­ and management of livestock. A ship­ (Minnehaha county) munity meeting was held dealing with ping association was assisted in or­ farmstead planning. All the men carry­ ganizing at Newark. Two farmers were ing on "alfalfa for brood sows" demon­ Percy T. secured to put on a hog sanitation _Smith-Assisted two farmers strations were visited and pictures were demonstration. Ten farmers have agreed in buying dairy cows and one farmer taken. Monthly instruction record books . to use purebred varieties of seed corn in purchasing a purebred bull from the and forms· were mailed to each of these and five farmers have agreed to act as State school herd. One-half car of two demonstrators. Eighteen men were se­ demonstrators in alfalfa work, each to year old alfalfa seed was· sold. Some cured as a result of our state wide sow and care for five acres under our pure Grimm alfalfa seed was purchased publicity to get farm labor to clean up supervision. (Marshall county) and a weed eradication campaign the last ·of 5,000 acres ,of corn still re­ started. Have discus.:;ed the planting maining unpicked. Preliminary work on of sweet clover with about thirty far­ John A. Gunning- Eleven meetings the organization of a county wide com­ mers during the month and orders have mittee to promote the improvement of were attended by the agent during the 1,900 been taken for pounds of sweet marketing dairy products arid produce month. An order was received from a clover seed. Three culling demonstra­ county agent in Wisconsin .for 8,560 was started. (Sully county) tions were put on and assistance given pounds of alfalfa seed f. o. b. stations in organizing a community poultry here. I now have 15 farmers pooling show at Frankfort. Work started on a L. L. Ladd--Forty-three pigs were their seed to fill this order. Two co­ purebred combination sale to be held delivered to boys and girls in the pig operators for hulless oats demonstra­ at Redfield on March 15. (Spink county) club. Twenty-three of the pig club mem­ tions were secured, 1 cooperator on wilt bers secured_ their pigs at two special resistant flax. Five men were interested pig club days. Arrangements were made in the importation of good dairy cattle. N. F. Nels-on--Three cooperators se­ with the county fair association to hold Two bpys were furnish_ed with five ewes cured in a 10 acre corn project, two in a special club day at the fair next falL in sheep club work. Two poultry cul­ soybeans, one in Kota wheat, two on Special classes have been made for the ling demonstrations were put on and sweet clover for pasture, and one mem­ different breeds of pigs and "liberal one man was assisted in getting a car- ber in a corn club. Three pig club prizes are being offered. Three hundred · load of feed corn. (Day county) members were assisted in pedigree and fifty-two people attended nine work. Tuberculosis eradication work meetings in four days with P. J. Scar­ was started by the showing of the film, b-ro of the college giving a talk and W. F. Broich-Two cars containing "Out of the Shadows," at the farm ac­ showing films on boys' and girls' club 3,000 bushels of registered Canadian count meetings. Eighty farmers attend­ work. Arrangements were made for a Marquis seed wheat have been ordered ed three farm management schools and boys' and girls' club camp to be held from Canada. This seed will be dis­ 10 of them agreed to keep records for at Rapid City in June. One hundred tributed by- the farmers' elevators at the coming year. One junior farm and ninety-six people attended a good Herreid and Artas. On account of the management club. was organized at annual Farm Bureau meeting. (Penning­ mixtures in seed wheat- now used in Harrold with a membership of seven ton county) the county, this project will provide a boys. (Hughes county) source of reliable 100 percent pure seed. One shipping association was re­ Oscar Hermstnd--Eight farmers have Y. D. Basart-Proper remodeling of organized and trouble over the man­ clubbed together, each man buying two hog houses, and barns and the instal­ ager question was settled by popular and one-half bushels of wheat (Kota), vote of the 300 farmers present.(Camp­ lation of ventilation systems called for to be s.eeded in one p1ot and cared fOI­ bell-McPherson County) three farm visits. A two day short by one man in the group. This kind of course for late February was arranged a demonstration lessens the expense for at Raymond. This will consist of a each individual and also a demonstra­ A.nua :.u. Streed-Six training schools corn and grain show and work on swine tion carried on in this way will give for club demonstrators were held and and dairy feeding with one night be­ more publicity and. be taken better the. demonstrators were schooled on ing given to the showing of agricultur­ care of than if carried on in a small "short cuts" and "study of materials." al films. The Boosters club of Raymond plot on each man's farm. This makes Attendence at these schools was 100 is taking charge of local arrange­ a total of 50 acres of percent. Eight women's clubs were met ments. Preliminary meetings -for the Kota wheat to be with and the local demonstrators as­ purpose of organizing community clubs raised in Dewey county this year sj"l:rt· in putting on their demonsta- . were held in Ash and Warren town­ through our efforts. Twelve grade Hol­ ti . Eight local leaders for girls ships. The annual meeting of the Farm stein cows were shipped into the county chi s were assisted and three girls' club Bureau was held and 320 members at­ as a result of a better dairy cow cam­ · meetings attended. Plans are being tended. One delegate from each of the paign. One man was advised on better made to conduct a girls' camp at La�e organized communities in the· county ventilation for his hog house. Three Madison for five days in June. (Brook­ met at 9:30 a. m. as a resolutions com­ farm account schools were held with ings District-Moody, Lake, Brookings mittee. (Clark County) Mr. McCullough of Brookings assisting. aml Kingsbury counties.) A sow-litter club of seven members is L. �[. Woodruff-Ten men were lo­ being organized at Isabel. One poultry Eva Bickel--Seventy demonstrators cated as Kota wheat cooperators, each culling demonstration was held and attended five training schools to be to take one-half bushel of seed. A list forty percent of the flock culled out. schooled in the "study of materials" of all men in the county having al­ Records are being kept of both the culls demonstration. On annual meeting Farm falfa seed for sale was made up. Four and the hens retained to determine the Bureau day 70 women had a special demonstrations in milk testing with results. (Dewey county)