Lex Anteinternet: Friday Farming: Southern Rockies Nature Blog: Lettuce Get Down to Business

Lex Anteinternet: Friday Farming: Southern Rockies Nature Blog: Let...: 

Friday Farming: Southern Rockies Nature Blog: Lettuce Get Down to Business

Southern Rockies Nature Blog: Lettuce Get Down to Business: Photo from 1918 of the Mahon Ranch, west of Buena Vista. Pictured are Martha Mahon, her daughter Cassie and Cassie’s husband George Fields...

Labels: 1910s, 1918, Agriculture, Blog Mirror, Colorado, Friday Farming

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, May 8, 1914. Ag Extension comes into being.

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, May 8, 1914. Ag Extension comes into bein...: 

Friday, May 8, 1914. Ag Extension comes into being. Dan Sickles passes on.

The Smith Lever Act went into providing for a national Cooperative Extension Service to be established.

This would allow university agriculture departments to offer rural education programs, which his a good thing.

UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING EXTENSION

This is also an example of the American System of economics, which the current GOP detests.  It'd be interesting to see what they'd feel about the introduction of such a program today.

An article about the act from another site in another state:

Maryland 4-H and the Centennial of Smith-Lever

On the same day, the 63d Congress also passed a joint resolution "designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day, and for other purposes"

Lex Anteinternet: Satuday, April 18, 1914. Cover Art.

Lex Anteinternet: Satuday, April 18, 1914. Being petty.:  

Satuday, April 18, 1914. Being petty.

 It was Saturday.