Introduction Part One The Precursors to the Development of Extension Education in Indiana: Research, Farmers'' Institutes, and One Man''s Vision (1882-1912) 1. Research Lays a Foundation for Extension 2. One Man''s Vision for Extension 3 All Roads Lead to the County Agent Part Two The Show-and-Tell Years of the First County Agents in Indiana: When Seeing Was Believing (1912-1916) 4. Extension Work Being New in the County, the Office Was Not Understood 5. Field Demonstrations Are the Rock On Which We Build 6. Farming Requires Business Principles in Its Management 7. Very Few Farms of the County Are Maintaining the Fertility 8. Test! Don''t Guess! 9.

The Marriage of King Corn and Queen Alfalfa 10. Barn Was Engulfed in a Cloud of Oat Smut 11. A Number of Men Sowed Wheat That Had Never Sowed It Before 12. The Fruit on the Unsprayed Tree Was Unsound, Wormy, Knotty, and Rotted 13. Hog Cholera! Keep Out! 14. Cattle Were Found to Have the Foot-and-Mouth Disease 15. The Teachers Look to Me for All Aid in Teaching Agriculture 16. Boys'' and Girls'' Club Work in the County Is Helping Considerably Part Three Food Will Win World War I (1917-1918) 17.

Supporting Soldiers at the Front Through Work in the Fields 18. Every Call Took Some Men Much More Valuable as Producers Than They Could Be as Soldiers 19. With a Food Shortage Possible, There Has Been a Desire to Save All Perishable Food 20. Not Safe to Guess on the Vitality of Their Seed Corn 21. Meeting the Government''s Request for More Pork Photographs2 Part Four: Living Through the Miserable Years of the Agricultural Depression (1919-1929) 22. The Farm Business Is on the Rocks 23. No One Man Ever Will Know All a County Agent Is Expected to Know 24. The Program Has Become a "Jack of All Trades and Master of Some" 25.

Better Hens, More Bushels per Acre, and Greater Economy in Production All Around 26. A Public Servant or a Servant to One Organization 27. The Value of the Hen as the "Mortgage Lifter" 28. The Milk Check Has Been a Very Welcome Thing in a Great Many Homes 29. One-Third of All Tuberculosis Cases Are Contracted Directly from Milk 30. This Is the Finest Bunch of Hogs I Have Raised in Years 31. Better Keep Bees Better or Better Not Keep Bees Photographs 32. Just Mixed Up Nondescript Corn of No Particular Origin 33.

Farmers Should Realize That the Pest Is Within Our Midst 34. The Three L''s--Limestone, Legumes, and Livestock 35. Soil Fertility Is Their Capital Stock for Profit or Loss on the Farm 36. Whenever a Farmer Gets the Soybean Habit, He Rarely If Ever Quits 37. The Wheat Crop Though Unprofitable on the Average Farm Has Returned a Neat Profit in Some Cases436 38. Superior Strains Sought After by Progressive Farmers 39. The Eradication and Control of This Weed Is an Ever Perplexing Problem for the Careful Farmer 40. Care For or Cut Down Orchard Campaign466 41.

Farmers Must Find Some Crop Which Will Pay Them a Good Cash Income Photographs 42. The Tractor Has Taken a Prominent Place on the Farm 43. Crops and Livestock Can Be Made to Grow on These So Called "Worn-Out" Farms 44. The Man on the Dirt Road Today Is at a Decided Disadvantage 45. Hoosiers Are Kind to Rats, Feeding Them on Eggs, Poultry, Grain, and Meats 46. Power in the Home Saves Mother Photographs 47. Extension among Farm Women and Girls Is as Important as That among Farm Men and Boys 48. The Afternoon of Each School Day Is Devoted to Agriculture 49.

Club Members Have Learned to Win Without Boasting, to Lose Without Squealing Epilogue Educators by Profession, Friends to Rural People, and Pioneers of Agricultural Change Photographs Notes Sources Index.