Mississippi State University--Employees--Interviews; Mississippi State University--Alumni and alumnae; Mississippi State University--History; Mississippi State University. Cooperative Extension Service; Mississippi State University. Cooperative...
Oral history; Interview with William M. Bost, conducted on July 10, 2002 at Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University. Dr. Bost was born in Ecru, Pontotoc County, Mississippi, in 1924 and grew up on a farm. After serving in the...
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation; Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service; Farmers; African-Americans; Shaw, Mose Sydney
Letter to Mose S. Shaw from Major M. Hubert, director of Negro Men's Work for the Mississippi State University Extension Service, concerning the appropriation of $100 among five contest winners.
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...
Meat cutting demonstration, one of nine demonstrations of meat cutting and curing conducted in one week at a meeting attended by 300 Mississippians. The meeting was promoted by the Mississippi Extensional Services, Smith-Hughes Teachers, Farmers,...
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...
Mississippi State Fair (Jackson, Miss.); Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service; Canning and preserving; Exhibitions
Homemade farm relief is pictured in this suggested pantry supply arranged by specialists of the Extension Service at State College (Starkville, Miss.), and set up at the Mississippi State Fair (Jackson, Miss.).
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...
Smith, F.M.; Lauderbon, Don; Tanner, James E.; Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service; Agricultural extension workers; Forestry; Loblolly pine
Sherriff Tom Boykin shows his loblolly pine saplings: (Left to Right): F. M. Smith, County Agent; Tom Boykin; Don Lauderbon, Extension forester; James E. Tanner, 4-H County agent; and Colonel J. T. Ward.
