USA: Oxmoor Press, a subsidiary of The Progressive Farmer Company, Birmingham, Alabama
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10009
Notes:
Copy also located in the James F. Evans Collection, 114 pages., An edited collection written to "build something of the spirit that has always pervaded the lives of rural people." Features brief stories, poems, and commentaries. Sections include love of the land, joys of country living, the farmer and his family, creeds for farm living, the soil and growing things, cotton, animal friends, the business of farming, and the lighter side.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 134 Document Number: C20550
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, 28 pages; Executive summary of the general proceedings of the agricultural education workshop conducted in Younde, Cameroon, July 23-27, 1984
Todd, J.M. (author / Senior Field Officer, Education and Training, Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Honiara, Solomon Islands) and Senior Field Officer, Education and Training, Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Honiara, Solomon Islands
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1983-09
Published:
Solomon Islands
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 78 Document Number: C04344
Poem featuring a listener's reaction to an extension agent who used the technique of listening and asking questions. "The other night at meeting house, We listened quiet as a mouse, To hear a man the Council got, 'Splain runnin' farms right on the dot. Instead of talkin' how to plow, And how to feed and milk a cow, How chicken coops get filled with lice, He said he's from our own State College, That had quite a bit of knowledge, Which matched with our own common sense Would knock our losses off the fence. He said most folks is in a groove. Before their business will improve, They've got to open up their mind, And think right sharp why they're behind. He asked us questions straight and hard, And what we done to make hens lay. You'd thought to hear him ask and ask, His head was empty as a cask, But when he finished up with us, We'd never seen so smart a cuss."
