Durant Weekly News
April 28, 1916
Farm Agents’ Activities
Interesting Reports of Mr. and Mrs. Fash as to Their Work
In this Section of the State During the Past Week
Following are excerpts from the reports of County Farm Agent Fash and Mrs. Fash, which go to show something about the work being accomplished by these earnest workers:
Mr. Fash’s Report:
Monday, I vaccinated hogs for the State National Bank of Durant—14 head of them, and 13 for Lewis Paullin, and 16 for Nick Arend.
Tuesday, I went to Banty, staid (sic) all night with I. C. Teague, and Wednesday I visited the farmers and members of the Boys’ Clubs and their parents, and found some of the boys very enthusiastic over the prospects this spring. All were doing good work.
Thursday morning, I visited two farmers and their boys and drove to Caddo. Arrived at Caddo about noon, put my team in the barn and took the train to Durant. Took dinner, answered a letter from a farmer who had 30 head of hogs to vaccinate. Got my vaccinating outfit and took the train back to Caddo; got my team and drove 3 ½ miles and vaccinated 17 head of hogs for Z. V. Gordon and one of his neighbors; got through just at dark; staid (sic) all night at Gordon’s and the next day drove northeast of Caddo and visited one demonstrator and three other farmers; then drove back to Gordon’s and took dinner; drove out 6 miles southwest of Caddo in a community where I have 5 corn club boys and here I ran into a hornet’s nest. I had directed the boys where to get good seed corn and they got the corn all right. I had a good time with these boys. The man had sold them seed corn that was not fit for hog feed and had charged them 75 cents per bushel for the corn. The boys were badly discouraged as their corn had never seen daylight after planting it. They still had some of the seed so I could see what they had got. I left them in a good humor and promised that I would have some good seed corn for them by Monday morning’s mail. Saturday, I went to Mr. Lievsey’s and selected some good silvermine corn and fixed it up and mailed it to the boys.
Everything looks good for the coming season. Corn generally is up to a good stand and oats are looking fine. Farmers are beginning to plant cotton.
Mrs. Fash’s Report:
Spent the week visiting club members and found the majority of them doing good work. A few are quitting the county and will be removed from the list; also a few who want to attend summer school and cannot do the work. One famer told his daughter that he hadn’t much faith in her work, but if she wanted to clean up a couple of cockle burr patches and put it in tomatoes she could. It will take lots of hard work, but I believe the girl is equal to the task. One mother who has been sick all the week says that her 12-year-old daughter, who belongs to the bread club, took charge of the kitchen and baked pancakes, muffins, and cornbread, and did it much better than she had been able to do.
I have straightened out several imagined difficulties, among them one for a girl whose mother had gotten the idea that her daughter must plant one acre of tomatoes and the proceeds go to the Caddo Corn Carnival Company, and in spite of it all, the girls refused to give up the work and the outlook for Bryan County is extremely good.
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