4-H clubs; McKay, A.B.; Mississippi State University; Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service
4-H club boys and girls at Mississippi State short course and Club Congress assembled on bleachers unders a giant pecan tree near the college greenhouse for horticultural lectures and demonstrations. A.B. McKay, Horticulture Extension leader, who...
4-H clubs; Jersey cattle; Ammons, William Earthy; African-American agricultural extension workers; Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service
'With dairy cattle, Mississippi 4-H club boys and girls are helping to get their parents out of one-crop cotton farming. Roy Beene of Guntown, Miss., is showing his herd of purebred Jerseys to State Extension Leader W. E. Ammons, right. Roy is...
Bankhead Cotton Control Act; Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service
Beginning the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, 1934. Left to right: W.H. Stovall, J.C. Rimes, E.H. White (future director of the Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service), Thomas L. Gaston, T.M. Patterson and L.A. Olson,Director of the Mississippi...
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation; Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service; Farmers; African-Americans farmers; Corn; Contests; Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College; Women
Correspondence between M. M. Hubert, leader of the Negro Men's Work, and Mrs. Wilma B. Sledge, social and educational director of the State Farm Bureau, regarding corn production contests and African-American farmers. Included are lists of farmers...
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation; Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service; Farmers; African-Americans; Corn; Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College
Correspondence between Mose S. Shaw and Boswell Stevens about the 1951 ''Negro Farm and Home Week'' at Alcorn A&M College, as well as an itinerary and list of Negro farmers who produced 100 bushels or more of corn per acre..
