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Annual Report of the County Agricultural Agent in Dodge County Minnesota 1936

Annual Report of the County Agricultural Agent in Dodge County Minnesota 1936
The 1936 Dodge County Extension report contains six documents: 33-page Annual Extension Review, Analyses, Interpretation and Presentation Summary; 55-page Extension Narrative Report; 4-H Narrative Report; Agricultural Conservation Blockman Report; 4-H Work Scrapbook and Miscellaneous lose papers. The Narrative reports contains: statistical summary (page 1); Projects Goals and Methods (pages 2-9); Cereals disease, varieties, trial results, Stussy Limestone Pit (pages 10-12); Poultry feeding, parasites, housing (pages 12-13); Horses (page 13); Dairy testing purebred sires, dried milk plant in West Concord (pages 13-14); Sheep and Swine Harold Saettre demonstration, hog cholera, anemia, Hog Improvement Association, Sow Improvement Association (pages 15-16); Farm Management accounting, record keeping, loans with Farm Credit Association (pages 16-17); Home Management and Nutrition (page 17); 4-H full time Club Agent, Leaders Meetings, One-act Play, County Picnic, enrollment numbers, County Fair, State-National-Jr Livestock Show results, livestock parade, food stand netted $52 (pages 18-20); Weed Control condemned crop field, thistles; Community Activities Adult One-Act Play, Rural Youth Group officers, Corn Husking Contest, Dodge County Service Company affiliates with State Farm Bureau Service, shares sold, Farm Bureau picnic 600 attended, Mrs. Forrest Chapin wins Womens Speaking Contest at State Fair; (pages 21-23); Emergency Projects shortage of seed, Soil Conservation map (pages 24-25); Farm Management Cooperators member names and location map (pages 26-27); 4-H Clubs names and location map (pages 28-29); Farm Bureau Board of Directors (page 30); 1937 Projects Goals and Methods (pages 31-36); History of Dodge County Extension Work (pages 37-39); Crops Wheat Adjustment Program, disease control, Herman Peterson produces Hybrid Corn seed, expense of lime (pages 39-41); Dairy low prices, State Livestock Sanitary Board testing (pages 41-42); Seine disease problems increase (pages 42-43); Sheep and Poultry disease, better feed (pages 44-46); Better Farming Club (pages 46-47); Coop Dairy Manufacturing Plants (pages 47-48); Weed Control Issues (pages 48-49); No Home Project in 1936 (page 49); 4-H Banner Year, special attention to Health Project (pages 51-51); Farm Bureau new unit organized, meetings, Mrs. Chapin receives perfect score in National Speaking Contest, Oil Coop Problems (pages 51-53); Outlook for 1937 (pages 54-55). The 1937 4-H Club Agent Report: letters, project requirements, clubs names of officers and meeting schedules, Leaders Meetings, cost vs. value, information on all activities including Fairs, newspaper articles. Black & white photos: Pauline Gossard, sewing; Phyllis Simonsen, bread baking; Florence McMartin, clothing; Donald Trapp, Grand Champion Pig; One-Act Play Group. SE District Ag Conservation Report covers Projects Goals and Methods, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower and Olmsted Counties. Scrapbook 4-H Report contains letters sent, contest and fairs including clubs, individual names and results. Loose Documents donated by Mrs. Perry Aspery contains Extension booklets, letters, kitchen plans, lesson plans for Womens Project Groups.
1936-09
English
1936
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