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Field demonstration in cultivating cotton; The Negro is naturally a farmer and takes a keen interest in putting to use the better practices learned at demonstration meetings

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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Decade of Negro extension work, 1914-1924.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African American Farmers
  2. African American Men
  3. African Americans
  4. Agricultural Extension Work
  5. Cotton Plantations

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