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W.D. Bentley
Papers, ca. 1909-1920

Biography

Correspondence, reports, crop records, minutes of meetings, legislation, articles, and photographs* from Texas and Oklahoma relating to Walter Dimmitt Bentley (1856-1930) and his work with the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work, OAMC's Extension Division and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) field work.

Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work was a program sponsored by the USDA under the direction of Dr. Seaman Knapp. Its purpose was to demonstrate to farmers improved and diversified methods of farming to combat the devastation caused by the cotton boil weevil in the south. This was accomplished by agents traveling the area, lecturing and demonstrating the methods of using pure seed, deep plowing, frequent shallow cultivation and growing all home supplies. Bentley included instructions to boys, girls and women, setting up Boys and Girls Corn Clubs and Ladies Canning Clubs. Bentley began work in Texas in 1904 as special agent for the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Western Oklahoma was added to his region in 1907 and in 1908 he was assigned all of Oklahoma. In 1914 as a result of the Smith-Lever Act the FCDW was combined with the Extension Division at Oklahoma A&M College in Stillwater and Bentley became the first director. In 1916 Bentley was appointed USDA Federal Field Agent in charge of the cooperative extension work in Oklahoma and Texas. In 1918 he returned to Oklahoma and served as Assistant Director and for a time Director of the Extension Division at OAMC until his retirement in 1929.

*Photographs are housed separately in Collection No. 1955-013.9

Collection Information

Collection No. : 1955-013

Arrangement : Arranged in series: Administration, Boys' and Girls' Clubs, Conferences and Meetings, Correspondence, Demonstration Farms, Extension History, Seaman Knapp, Legislation, Personal (Bentley), and Report Books.

Access : Unrestricted

Collection Size : 4.25 linear (3 record storage boxes, 1 legal box, oversize folder)

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Inventory

Acronym Key

FCDW: Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work
USDA: United States Department of Agriculture
OAMC: Oklahoma Agriculture and Mechanical College

Administration
Box Folder Description
1 1 Agents, FCDW. Budgets & Expenditures. 1908, 1914.
1 2 Agents Instructions, FCDW. From S.A. Knapp, October 1905.
1 3 Agents Instructions, FCDW From S.A. Knapp, June 30, 1910.
1 4 Agents Instructions for Extension Accounting. From Bradford Knapp, USDA, March 27, 1916.
1 5 Agents' Meeting report from Bentley, Feb. 1912.
1 6 Agents' Meeting report from Bentley, December 27, 1917 to January 5, 1918
1 7 Agents Membership lists, FCDW, 1907-1910
1 8 Agents Membership list, OAMC Extension, n.d.
1 9 Cotton Growing Instructions, 1909
1 10 Crop Information from Bureau of Plant Industry, USDA, 1905-1906
1 11 Crop Records, 1905
1 12 Crop Records, 1903-1908
1 13 Crop Records. Preliminary Seed Report, 1908
1 14 Crop Records. FCDW for USDA, 1911
1 15 Crop Records. FCDW for USDA, 1912
1 16 Crop Records, 1909-1914
1 17 Farmer's Winter Short Course, (OAMC), 1916
1 18 Farmer's Report. FCDW agent's monthly time sheets, October 1909
1 19 Farmer's Report. FCDW agent's monthly time sheets, December 1912
1 20 Invoices, OAMC Printing Department, 1915, 1921
1 21 Invoices, OAMC Printing Department, 1915, 1921
1 22 Publications. Bulletins (not USDA)
1 23 Publications. Clippings
1 24 Publications. Newspapers
1 25 Publications. USDA
1 26 Record of Visits with County Agents, 1909-1910
1 27 Record of Visits with County Agents, March 1910-November 1910
1 28 Record of Visits with County Agents, 1910-1911
1 29 Report, Annual. Bentley to S.A. Knapp, 1904
1 30 Report, Annual. Bentley to S.A. Knapp, 1905
1 31 Report, Annual. Bentley to S.A. Knapp, 1906
1 32 Report, Annual. Bentley to S.A. Knapp, 1908
1 33 Report, Annual. Bentley to S.A. Knapp, January-June 1909
1 34 Report, Annual. Bentley to S.A. Knapp, 1909
1 35 Report, Annual. Bentley to S.A. Knapp, 1910
1 36 Report, Annual. Bentley to Bradford Knapp, 1910-1911
1 37 Report, Annual. George Bishop to Bentley and Bradford Knapp, 1910-1911
1 38 Report, Annual. From George Bishop, December 1912 and F.F. Ferguson to Bradford Knapp, 1912
1 39 Report, Annual. Bentley to Bradford Knapp, 1912-1913
1 40 Report, Annual. 1913, Bentley to Bradford Knapp, 1913
1 41 Report, Annual. OAMC Extension Division, Bentley to USDA, 1914
1 42 Report, Annual. OAMC Extension Division, 1915
1 43 Report, Annual. OAMC Extension Division, Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1915
1 44 Report, Annual. OAMC Extension Division, Bentley to L.L. Lewis, Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1915
1 45 Report. Bentley to State Board of Agriculture, on functioning of OAMC Extension Division, November 1914
1 46 Report. Northwest Texas and Oklahoma, Bentley to S.A. Knapp, February, May 1908
1 47 Report. Bentley to S.A. Knapp, March 17 to May 26, 1906
1 48 Report. Bentley to S.A. Knapp, June 26 to September 27, 1906
1 49 Report. Bentley to S.A. Knapp, October 13 to December 29, 1906
1 50 Report, Annual. 1913, Bentley to Bradford Knapp, 1913
1 51 Report. Bentley to S.A. Knapp, January 9 to March 30, 1907
1 52 Report. Bentley to S.A. Knapp, April 8-June 29, 1907
1 53 Report. Bentley to S.A. Knapp, July 3 to December 21, 1907
1 54 Salaries Paid to Agents, 1914
1 55 Student Labor Applications, OAMC
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BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS
BOX 1
Folder:

  • Boys' and Girls' Clubs
  • Boys' and Girls' Clubs. Articles of Agreement Between OAMC and USDA Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work, 1911
  • Boys' and Girls' Clubs. Correspondence
  • Boys' and Girls' Clubs. Cotton Growing Contest Entries, 1912
  • Boys' and Girls' Clubs. Record Book, 1912
  • Boys' and Girls' Clubs. Reports, Scores, 1912

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    CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
    BOX 1
    Folder:

  • Annual Conference of College Cooperative Agents. Program, June 1911
  • County Agents meetings, Texas, 1906
  • "Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work and Its Results." An Address at the 9th Conference for Education in the South, at Lexington, Ky, May 4, 1906
  • Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Conference of State Agents, Washington, D.C., January 1912. Part 1.
  • Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Conference of State Agents, Washington, D.C., January 1912. Part 2.
  • Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Oklahoma Agents Meeting, October 1910
  • Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Oklahoma Agents Meeting, March 1911
  • Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Oklahoma Agents Meeting, September 1911
  • Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Oklahoma Agents Meeting, Bentley's Notes 1911, 1912
  • Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Oklahoma Agents Meeting, February 19, 1912. pp 1-50
  • Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Oklahoma Agents Meeting, February 19, 1912. pp 51-100
  • Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Oklahoma Agents Meeting, Feb. 19, 1912. pp 101-150
  • Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Oklahoma Agents Meeting, Feb. 19, 1912. pp 151-184

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      CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS, cont.
      BOX 2
      Folder:

    1. Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Meeting of Oklahoma Agents, February 19, 1912. pp 1-50 (1-8 missing)
    2. Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Meeting of Oklahoma Agents, February 19, 1912. pp 51-100
    3. Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Meeting of Oklahoma Agents, February 19, 1912. pp 101-150
    4. Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Meeting of Oklahoma Agents, February 19, 1912. pp 151-184
    5. Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Oklahoma Agents Meeting, September 1913
    6. Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. Oklahoma Agents Meeting, July 16-21, 1917
    7. National Corn Show, January 1911
    8. Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture, Minutes, January 3, 1918. RE Selection and residence of county agents
    9. Proceedings of the First, Second, and Third Conferences for Christian Education in the South, 1898 (book).

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      CORRESPONDENCE
      BOX 2
      Folder:

    10. Author Unknown
    11. A-Barrow
    12. Barrow
    13. Bennett-Evans
    14. Bennett-Evans
    15. Bennett-Evans
    16. Bennett-Evans
    17. Bentley to ?
    18. Bentley
    19. Bentley
    20. Bentley
    21. Bentley
    22. Bentley
    23. Evans to Knapp, October 25, 1904
    24. S. Knapp, November 22, 1904 to June 13, 1905
    25. S. Knapp, June 6 to December 2, 1905
    26. S. Knapp 3-27-1906 to 11-14-1906
    27. S. Knapp 12-04-1905 to 3-27-1906
    28. S. Knapp 11-15-1906 to 1-25-1908
    29. S. Knapp 1-27-1908 to 11-10-1908
    30. S. Knapp 11-10-1908 to 3-2-1909
    31. S. Knapp 3-5-1909 to 6-12-1909
    32. S. Knapp 6-16-1909 to 9-24-1909
    33. S. Knapp and Bradford Knapp 9-27-1909 to 12-2-1911
    34. S. Knapp and Bradford Knapp 9-27-1909 to 12-2-1911
    35. B. Knapp 1-27-1912 to 12-27-1912
    36. B. Knapp 1-27-1912 to 12-27-1912
    37. B. Knapp 1-02-1913 to 09-11-1917
    38. Knight-Riddle
    39. O.B. Mantin
    40. Ritter-Youngblood

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      DEMONSTRATION FARMS
      BOX 3
      Folder:

    1. Bentley. Demonstration farm diaries, 1906-1908
    2. Bentley. Demonstration farm diaries, 1906-1923
    3. Bentley. Demonstration farm notebook, 1909-1910
    4. Bentley. Demonstration farm expense books, 1908- 1910
    5. Cotton Demonstration records
    6. Demonstrator's crop yields. Oklahoma, Texas, 1908
    7. Record of farmers by county (Texas), 1905
    8. Report of Office of Extension Work, South. September 14, 1916 and Visitation to OAMC
    9. Report, Annual. Texas, W.D. Bentley, Special Agent, 1907.
    10. Grain yields, Channing Texas, 1906
    11. Poor Farm used for Demonstration Farm: Jack County, Texas, 1906
    12. Poor Farm used for Demonstration Farm: Shamrock farm, Wheeler, Texas, ca. 1906 and Henrietta, Texas, ca. 1906

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      EXTENSION HISTORY
      BOX 3
      Folder:

    13. Correspondence
    14. Correspondence. J.H. Connell, President OAMC, 1911-1913. RE Merging OAMC Extension and Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work
    15. Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work. History
    16. Federal Agricultural Extension Service, 1930
    17. Home Demonstration Work
    18. "Notes on History-Extension Dope in Oklahoma."
    19. 10 Year Reviews.

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      KNAPP, Seaman
      BOX 3
      Folder:

    20. Knapp, Seaman A. (1833-1911).
    21. Memorial address for Dr. S.A. Knapp, April 9, 1912.
    22. Speech - "Let us enlarge the domain of industrial knowledge" by Seaman Knapp, June 1894.
    23. The Monarchs. Story of a Surveying Trip in West Texas in 1900 and Queer People...by Tom M. Marks, 1907 (book).

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      LEGISLATION
      BOX 3
      Folder:

    24. Correspondence - Anti Farmers Union 1920-1921.
    25. Editorial. Oklahoma Union Farmers, April 1921. RE James Wilson, Head, Extension Department, OAMC vs. John Simpson, Oklahoma Farmer's Union.
    26. Farmers Cooperative Demonstration Work vs OAMC, 1907-1913.
    27. Farmers Cooperative Demonstration Work, Senate Bill. (draft), 1911.
    28. Resolution by State Board of Agriculture re Bentley, 1916.

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      PERSONAL - W.D. Bentley
      BOX 3
      Folder:

    29. Articles A-C.
    30. Articles D-E.
    31. Articles F.
    32. Articles G-Z.
    33. Articles published.
    34. Biographical, W.D. Bentley.
    35. Correspondence. Bentley, on behalf of his wife Julia Rhoades, June 1910.
    36. Correspondence. Congratulating Bentley on 20 years of service, Jan. 1924-June 1925.
    37. Correspondence. Congratulating Bentley on 25 years of service, March 1929-Feb. 1930.
    38. Record of Travel, 1906-1907.

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      REPORT BOOKS
      BOX 4

      USDA. Report on Demonstration Farms. Corn. W.D.
      Bentley, Special Agent, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1907
      (5 books)

      USDA. Report on Demonstration Farms. Cotton. W.D.
      Bentley, Special Agent, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1907
      (5 books)

      USDA. Report on Demonstration Farms. Corn. W.D.
      Bentley, Special Agent, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1908
      (2 books)

      USDA. Report on Demonstration Farms. Cotton. W.D.
      Bentley, Special Agent, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1908
      (3 books)

      USDA. Report on Demonstration Farms. Cotton. W.D.
      Bentley, Yukon, Oklahoma, 1909 (1 book)

      USDA. Report on Demonstration Farms. Boys
      Demonstration Work. W.D. Bentley, Yukon, Oklahoma,
      1909. (2 books)

      USDA. Field Diary. W.D. Bentley.
      December 4, 1909-July 1, 1911
      July 3, 1911-April 25, 1913
      April 27, 1913-February 27, 1915
      February 15, 1915-January 20, 1917
      January 21, 1917-January 18, 1919
      January 19, 1919-May 13, 1922

      USDA. Field Diary and Travel Record. W.D.
      Bentley.
      [1913-1915]
      [1918-1919]
      [1919-1920]

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      PHOTOGRAPHS
      BOX 1
      Folder:

    1. Adair County, OK
      -Small child with chickens in front of house of
      George H. Hinds, June 1913
      -Field of oats on demonstration farm, June 1913
      -People boarding train at Westville, OK, 1911
      -Crowd on streets of Stilwell, OK, 1911
    2. Arkansas
      -Freight train wreck on CRP&P railroad west of
      Little Rock, July 25, 1909
      -Arkansas farm, Sept. 1908
    3. Beckham County, OK
      -Abandoned farms near Erick, OK, Dec. 1910
      -Corn planted on Colorado grass stubble on R.S.
      Vining farm, May 1912
      -Cotton planted in lister furrows on R.S. Vining
      farm, May 1913
      -Milo field on R.S. Vining farm, May 1913
    4. Bentley, J.A. Evans, J.L. Quicksall, W.F.
      Procter, Perrine, 1916, 1928.       Informal group
      portraits
    5. Bentley, Walter D.
      Portrait
      -Seated in his office in Morrill Hall, OAMC, Jan.
      1916
    6. Bowie, Chico TX
      -Cotton samples, fertilized and unfertilized, 1906
      -Pigs feeding on Rufus Boothe farm, 1906
    7. Boys Corn & Cotton Clubs
      -Boys and girls posed in fields, 1913
    8. Boys Pig Clubs
      -Boys posed with their pigs, Chickasha, Wapanucka,
      Tishomingo, 1913
    9. Bryan County, OK
      -Planting alternate rows on demonstration farm,
      Durant, May 1911
      -Cows and pigs feeding, 1909-1910
    10. Caddo County, OK
      -W.B. Larnberth's demonstration farm and orchard,
      Apache, July 1913. Posed with plow, horse and
      children
      -A.N. Horn, Apache, holding seed stalk, June
      [ca.1913]
      -Cotton demonstration farms, Hydro, June 1908
      -Farmers posed with their teams and plows on their
      demonstration farms, 1913
      -Agent Hester's wheat crop, Anadarko, 1911
      Boy (Noel Farrington) posed with his dairy cow,
      Anadarko, 1916
      -Elsie Stevens posed by her tomato plant,Anadarko,
      1913
    11. Canadian County, OK
      -Cotton demonstration farm, Yukon, 1910
      -Finishing the interurban railway into Yukon, 1910
      -Yukon Boosters at El Reno fair and parade, 1910
      -Agent Ferguson and Banker Phillips in auto on
      demonstration farm, Yukom, 1910
      -Round barn on demonstration farm of Howard
      Pendleton, Yukon, July 1910
      -C.M.Evans, College Station, Texas, standing under
      a tree and lecturing lady agents of canning club
      work, Yukon, June 1912
      -Corn fields on neighboring demonstration farms,
      Yukon, Aug. 1909
      -Two row disk cultivator for listed corn, Karl
      Bermeman's (farm), August 1909
      -Bentley's farm, Yukon, June-July 1911. Peanuts,
      corn, dwarf milo
      -First meeting of lady agents in U.S. Canning Club
      on A.S. Perry's farm near Yukon, June 1912
    12. Carter County, OK
      -Georgia Scott, Lady Agent, posed with men, women
      and children while giving lecture on pruning
      tomatoes, Ardmore, May 1912
    13. Cherokee County, OK
      -Lister furrows on Rufus Ross farm, Talequah, May
      1913. Agent T. N. McAlister in foreground
      Ross daughters feeding chickens, Talequah, May 1913
    14. Chillicothe and Clay County, TX
      -Group of men (identified on verso) standing in
      corn field, Sept. 1909
      -Corn fields, May-June 1908
    15. Choctaw County, OK
      -George and Nellie Copeland, corn, cotton and
      canning club members standing in corn field, Hugo,
      May, 1913
    16. Cleveland County, OK
      -Man standing next to corn stalks, Lexington, June
      1913
    17. Coal County, OK
      -Cow with tick problem, Coalgate, April 1916
      -County agent Yoakum and others running terrace
      lines in a field with homemade level, Coalgate,
      April 1916
    18. Comanche County, OK
      -Rummells family posed on their front porch,
      Lawton, 1909
      -O.K. Johnson standing in his corn field, Lawton,
      Aug. 1909
      -M.V. Lewis standing in his corn field, Lawton,
      Aug. 1909
      -County agent F.W. Rummels dragging wheel across
      ground, Lawton, 1909
      -View below dam in Medicine Park, May 1915
      -Corn samples from two corn fields, Lawton, Aug.
      1909
    19. County Agents
      -County agent Cooper posed with corn stalks
      -Man sitting on a pig, 1912
      -Large group of county agents posed on horse drawn
      flat bed wagons
      -Large group of county agents posed with farm
      equipment, 1911
    20. Crowds, Blacks, Boley, OK, Feb. 1913
      -Mrs. T.M. Jeffords addressing women and girls on
      Canning Club work
      -Crowd of people, including a band, after Mrs.
      Jeffords lecture
    21. Demonstration farms
      -Children posed next to a pear tree, Aug. 1906
      -D. Patterson posed in corn field
      -Harvest on Durham farm, June 1906
      -Children standing in field, May 1908
      -Man (Peters?) standing in corn field, June 1909
    22. Demonstration trains
      -Train cars designed especially to be used as
      platforms for lecturers. County agents travel to
      remote towns of Oklahoma to provide information on
      farm methods, canning and boys and girls clubs.
    23. Extension Division, OAMC, 1915
      -Group of employees of Extension Division of
      OAMC posed in front of building in Stillwater
    24. Farmer's Congress and Agent's Meeting, 1918,
      Morrill Hall, OAMC
      -Group posed on steps of building
    25. Garvin County, OK
      -Car parked on cement culvert near Wynnewood,
      August 1912
      -Men spraying cotton plants for ball worms,
      Wynnewood, Aug. 1912
      -Castor beans grown near Wynnewood, Sept. 1909
    26. Girls Canning Club
      -Girls canning clubs were establised by to teach
      girls productive vegetable growing and canning
      methods. Various views of girls working in their
      gardens, fields or posed with club members, 1912-1913
    27. Grady County, OK
      -Price cotton demonstration fields, Chickasha,
      July 1910
      -Demonstration corn and cowpea fields, near Mico,
      Aug. 1909
      -Man sitting on horse drawn rake used to conserve
      moisture during winter of 1908-1909
    28. Harmon County, OK
      -Stone dugout, June 1912
      -Men standing in fields of goose oats and late
      sowed wheat, June 1912
    29. Haskell County, OK
      -Erick Pogue, boy's corn club member and his corn,
      Sept. 1912
      -Family harvesting kafir by hand near Stigler,
      Sept. 1912
      -Group listening to lecture on cotton from "Cotton
      Special" at train depot, Kinta, Feb. 1913
    30. Hughes County, OK
      -CRI & P train, kafir corn special at depot in
      Calvin, Nov. 1912
    31. Jack County & Gray County, TX
      -Man standing in demonstration corn field, Rock
      Island Ry. farm at McLean, June 1908
      -Man standing in wheat field near Jacksboro, June
      1908
      -Corn field with cowpeas planted in every third
      row near Jacksboro, June 1908
    32. Jefferson County, OK
      -Men looking at kafir fed hogs, Ryan, Dec. 1912
      D.D. Thompson and his twin mule colts and two
      horses, May 1910
      -Homes of O.L. Walker and J.P. Keller, Ryan, June
      1912
      -A.L. Keller's broom corn, onions, and corn and peanut crop,
      Ryan, June 1912
    33. Johnston County, OK
      -Willie Francis and two other club members in
      their cotton demonstration field near Wapanucka,
      1913
      -George Neely's cotton field and kafir field,
      Nov. 1912
      -Stacking peanuts on J.T. Hallmark farm, Oct.
      1915
      -Silo constructed by W.L. Benny, Wapanucka, 1912
      -H.L. Mulchow, demonstration patch near
      Tishomingo, Oct. 1915
      -B.H. Colbert's silo near Tishomingo
      -Auto bridge on Rock Creek between Tishomingo and
      Ravia, May 1909
      -Hallock weeder used in cultivating corn and
      cotton, Tishomingo, Aug. 1909
    34. Kafir corn, 1913
      -Man standing in fields of kafir corn grown under
      different conditions, Aug. 1913
    35. Kay County, OK
      -Elston Coleman posed in harvested corn field,
      Newkirk, Nov. 1912
      -J.M. Coleman family posed in front of horse and
      buggy near their house, Newkirk, Nov. 1912
      -Gladys Coleman, holding her canned goods, posed
      by tree near her house, Newkirk, Nov. 1912
    36. Kingfisher County, OK
      -J.A. March's red short horn cows on his farm near
      Kingfisher, June 1910
    37. Kiowa County, OK
      -Men gathered near silo special train, Gotebo,
      Hobart and Mt. View, Aug. 1913
      -Comanche Indian parade, Snyder, July 3, 1908
      -C.H. Pinkley's demonstration cotton fields near
      Mt. Park, June, 1910. Pinkley Mountain in background
      -F. Farmer's demonstration corn field near Mt.
      Park, June 1910. Shilo Mountain in background
      -Agent Pinkley in auto, Mount Dutchman in
      background, June 1910
      -Agent Pinkley in auto, valley view looking east
      toward Demsey's Mountain, June 1910
      -Hot wind damaged corn near Snyder
    38. Seaman Knapp memorial dinner, 1928. People posed
      in banquet hall
    39. Seaman Knapp, portrait
    40. Le Flore County, OK
      -Men standing in corn field, Corley family of
      Howe, OK, June 1909
    41. Logan County, OK
      -Men standing in J.H. Duke's demonstration corn
      field, Marshall, OK, Aug. 1912
      -Group of boys at field meeting in club work at
      Dewy Tracy's home, May 1913
      -Lady agents demonstrating home canning at
      Guthrie, OK, May 1913
      -J.A. Farquharson's fruit trees, Guthrie, OK, 1911
      -Group of men gathered at Meridian, OK train
      station near the Ft. S.& W. Cotton Special Train,
      Feb. 1913
    42. Marshall County, OK
      -People standing in corn demonstration field,
      Madill, OK, May 1913
      -Floyd Bishop, Corn Club boy, plowing corn,
      Madill, OK, May 1912
      -Man burning dead cholera hog, Lebanon, OK, Feb.
      1916
    43. Mayer County, OK
      -Group of people gathered under trees listening to
      a woman, Salina, OK, June, 1915
    44. Mexico
      -Building identified as a school near Monterey,
      Mexico
    45. Noble County, OK
      -Norm Nelson, his father and dog posed near
      a tractor, Perry, OK, Nov. 1912
    46. Okfuskee County, OK
      -Group gathered to hear speaker from the Ft. S.& W.
      Cotton Special at Boley, OK, Feb. 1913
      -Charlie Earnest, Corn Club boy and his father(?)
      standing in corn demonstration field near Okemah,
      OK, Nov. 1912
      -W.M. Bushnell standing in the Ft. S. & W.
      railroads demonstration cotton field, Weleetka,
      July 1913
      -Building ditch to trap bugs on Louis Neill's
      farm, Okemah, OK, June 1913
    47. Oklahoma County, OK
      -Boys corn & cotton club, Oklahoma City, OK,
      May, 1913
      -H.L. Lair, County Agent, Oklahoma County, OK
      May, 1913
      -Field Demonstration during Agent's meeting,
      Oklahoma City, OK, Sept. 1912
      -Boys prize winners judging cows during Agents'
      meeting, Oklahoma City, OK, Sept-Oct, 1914
      -Oklahoma Pig Club Boys, State Fair, Oklahoma
      City, OK, Sept 1913
      -Girl prize winners, State Fair, Oklahoma City,
      OK, Sept-Oct, 1914
      -Grain Sorghum Fair, 1913
      -Cotton growing exhibit, Oklahoma State Fair,
      Oct. 1911
      -Cutting heads off kafir on D. T. Meek farm west
      of Oklahoma City, OK, Nov. 1915
      -Olive Randolph in kafir corn, Edmond, OK, July,
      1917
      -Cotton field on S.W.Murphy farm, Edmond, OK,
      Aug 1908
      -Olive Randolph, pig club member, Edmond, OK,
      July, c.1913
      -Gene Stinson, Boys' & Girls' Corn & Kafir Club,
      Jones City, OK, May, 1913
      -Cotton and Corn club members, Witcher, OK,
      May,1913
    48. Okmulgee County, OK
      -W.D.Duncan, Agent E.B. Shotwell at Frisco Railway
      Demonstration Farm peanut patch,
      Okmulgee, OK, June, 1913
    49. Payne County, OK
      -Boys' plowing contest at OAMC, Stillwater, OK,
      Jan. 1916
      -Girls' dormitory after fire, at OAMC, Stillwater,
      OK, Oct. 1914
      -Morrill Hall after fire of Aug. 6, 1914, OAMC,
      Stillwater, OK Oct. 1914
      -Seed bed demonstration, Experiment Station,
      OAMC, Stillwater, OK July, 1915
    50. Peanut farms
      -M.R. Bentley in field of Spanish peanuts, lister
      furrows, use of seed cultivator, Wichita Falls,
      TX, Jun. 1913
      -Peanuts on W.D. Bentley farm; M.R.Bentley and
      Geo. R. Bishop, Wichita Falls, TX Aug, 1913
    51. Pittsburgh County, OK
      -Onie Minyard, winner Boys' Cotton growing
      contest, Nov. 1913
    52. Pontotoc County, OK
      -Mr. Banks & Mr. Morrison at Cotton Demonstration,
      Ada, OK, Sept. 1913
    53. Pottawatomie County, OK
      -Charles Barrett's twin girls posed on horseback
      Shawnee, OK, Sept. 1910
    54. Quanah & Wheeler Counties, TX
      -John M. Lewis' demonstration farm, Quanah,
      TX, June, 1908
      -Cotton gin, Shamrock, Wheeler Co., TX, Oct.1907
    55. Red River
      -Washout of Frisco Railway bridge, north fork of
      the Red River, Oklahoma, Apr. 1908
    56. Scrapbook
      -Looking SW toward Milton & Springs and bank
      after cyclone, Bellevue, TX Apr. 1906
      -No.2 looking south toward hotel after cyclone,
      Bellevue, TX, Apr. 1906
      -Sow and piglets
      -Rock crusher, Jacksboro, Jack Co., TX, Mar.1906
      -Jack Co. farm, Apr. 1906
      -Hunting prairie chickens in Wheeler Co. TX
      -Wichita River & bridges at Wichita Falls, TX,
      Apr. 1906
      -Alfalfa on Experiment farm, Chillicothe, TX,
      Apr. 1916
      -Beach at Galveston,TX May, 1906
      -Graham, Young Co., TX Apr. 1906, 2 views
      -No.9 residence district SE Bellevue, Sidney
      -Webb's residence in center in distance, after
      cyclone, Bellevue, TX Apr. 1906
      -No. 10 from point east of hotel looking north;
      hauling off dead animals, Bellevue, TX, 1906
      -Filling in behind seawall in Galveston, TX, May,
      1906
      -Wheat on Durham farm near Quanah, TX, J.T.Agee,
      June, 1906
      -No.7 residence district east past Bellevue, TX,
      railway water tank at right, Apr. 1906
      -No.8 residence district east past Bellevue, TX,
      Apr. 1906
      -Stormproof cotton, Rev. J.W. Reid, U.S. Dept. of
      -Agric. demonstration, Bowie, Montague Co. TX,
      Sept. 1905
      -Triumph cotton, Rev. J.W. Reid, Bowie, Montague
      Co., TX Sept. 1905
      -Themedia Cileata, a grass from ? grown on U.S.
      Experiment Station, Chillicothe, TX, Sept. 1905
      -Experiment station, Chillicothe, TX Sept 1905
      -Sow and piglets on Joseph McMurray farm near
      Saint Jo, TX, Mar 1906, 2 views
      -Catholic convent, 2 views, Wichita Falls, TX,
      Dec. 1905
      -Residence and pumping plant on G.R. Decker's
      irrigated farm near Wichita Falls, TX
      -Panorama near Granite, Greer Co., OK
      -Live oak tree near Graham, Young Co., TX,
      Feb. 1906
      -No.5 looking SW from east end of switch, after
      cyclone, Bellevue, TX Apr. 1906
      -No.6 Oak grove NE Bellevue, TX, north of rail-way,
      Apr. 1906
      -Harvest on Durham farm, crop of J.T. Agee, June,
      1906
      -Wheat on Durham farm, crop of Joseph Hines, June
      1906
      -Full blood registered red pole cows & calf,
      property of Paul Lars, Shamrock, TX, June 1906
      -Thoroughbred Red Pole Cow "Rose" 3 year old with
      calf 2 days old, property of Paul Lars, Shamrock,
      TX, June, 1906
      -No.3 looking SW from point south of elevator
      showing box car 130 ft. from track, Bellevue, TX,
      Apr. 1906
      -No.4 taken from top of Len Florall's dugout
      looking toward railway water tank; citizens'
      meeting in center, Bellevue, TX, Apr. 1906
      -A shot at a covey of quail, Thornberry, Clay Co.,
      TX, Dec. 1905
      -Baptist church at Thornberry, looking NW, Clay
      Co., TX, Jan. 1906
      -O.F. Smalley planting winter wheat, one mile east
      of Claude, Armstrong Co. TX, Sept. 1905
      -Demonstration cotton patch, R. Chambers farm
      near Park Springs, Wise Co.,TX, Oct 1905
      -Pecans and alfalfa, a Wise Co., combination, near
      Park Springs, TX, Oct. 1905
      -Cotton gin, Shamrock, Wheeler Co.,TX
      -Demonstration cotton patch on an old Johnson
      grass meadow, Bowie, Montague Co.,TX, Sept. 1905
      -Drawers of water, children and donkey, Jerico,
      Donley Co., TX, Nov, 1905
    57. Scrapbook
      -T&P railway wreck, taking out the dead engineer,
      near Arlington, TX, Sept 1907
      -T&P railway wreck, inspecting track and looking
      at overturned engine, Arlington, TX, Sept. 1907
      -Rufus Booth's farm, Chico, Wise Co., TX, 1907
      Home of special agent F.F.Fergusen, Hines, Grady
      Co., OK, June, 1908, 2 views
      -Lake on J.W.Coen demonstration farm at Jolly,
      Clay Co., TX, May, 1908
      -Cows at J.W. Coen demonstration farm, June, 1908
      -Washout of Frisco rail bridge, north fork of Red
      River, OK, Apr. 1908
      -Oats following cotton alternate rows of which
      were fertilized, bigger boy holds sample of
      fertilized row, May 1908
      -U.S.Demonstration cotton on G.A. Barrager's farm,
      Jerico, Donley Co., TX Aug, 1908
      -Two-year old pear tree on Joe McMurry's farm, at
      St. Jo, Montague Co., TX, Aug 1906
      -J.F.Pults and family on Jack Co., TX, farm
      -Wheat following fertilized corn on J.W.Coen farm,
      Jolly, TX, May 1908
      -Oats following fertilized cotton, J.W.Coen farm,
      Jolly, TX May, 1908
      -Demonstration Lagume Corn, neighboring farmers
      inspecting crop, Henrietta, TX, June 1908
      -Demonstration corn on Clay Co., farm, Henrietta,
      TX, May, 1908
      -Lagume corn on left, Native corn on right,
      J.W.Coen farm, Jolly, TX May, 1908
      -Lagume and Native corn on Coen farm one month
      later, Jolly, TX, June, 1908
      -Cowpeas in peach orchard, inspected by
      commissioner Graves, Jack Co., TX, June 1906
    58. Seminole County, OK
      -Seminole schools marching to C.R.I.&P. railway
      Kafir Corn Special, Seminole, OK, Nov.1912
    59. Stephens County, OK
      -C.R.I.&P. Kafir Special day, Main street, Marlow,
      OK, Dec., 1912
      -C.R.I.&P. Kafir Special train at Marlow, OK,
      Dec., 1912
      -John Fields speaking at Kafir Special train,
      Commanche, OK, Dec.1912, 5 photos, 2 views
      -Cotton Special train, c.1914
      -D.P.Owen's corn on W.N.McPerson's demonstration
      farm, Duncan, OK, June, 1910, 4 views
    60. Tillman County, OK
      -Sam Finley, county agent, seated in auto, 2
      views, Fredrick, OK, May, 1910
      -Ona Betts, Cotton Club Girls, Frederick, OK, May,
      1912
      -Cultivating cotton with horse-drawn harrow on
      J.M. Shafer farm, Frederick, OK, May, 1910
      -G.H. Tatom's peanuts on Frisco Demonstration Farm
      at Davidson, OK, July, 1913
      -Bret Bradley feeding Milo Maize to hogs, west of
      Frederick, OK, Oct. 1912
      -W.D.Bentley and George Bishop, and farmer on
      horse-drawn 2 row cultivator, Frederick, OK, May,
      1913
      -Corn burnt and ruined by hot winds, Davidson, OK,
      July, 1913
      -G.H. Tatom's kafir on Frisco demonstration farm,
      Davidson, OK, July, 1913
      -G.H. Tatom's planting of corn and peas on Frisco
      demonstration farm, Davidson, OK, July, 1913
      Cotton bales damaged by exposure to weather,
      Frederick, OK, Jan. 1916
      -Dewy Short's demonstration field, Frederick, OK,
      no date
    61. Washita County, OK
      -Cotton demonstration of J.S. Jackson, near Rocky,
      OK, July, 1910
      -Cowpeas on G.L. Bishop farm near Cordell, OK,
      July, 1910
      -George Bishop corn seed plot, Cordell, OK, June,
      1909
      -George Bishop, in white duster, and friends in
      field, western Oklahoma, c.1911
      -George Bishop's Blackhull Kafir, Cordell, OK,
      c.1911
      -Kafir field on G.L. Bishop farm, Cordell, OK,
      Aug. 1913
    62. Wichita Falls & Wise County, TX
      -Corn on Kemp demonstration farm, Wichita Falls,
      TX, May, 1908
      -Ashby Osborn in field of Spanish peanuts on W.D.
      -Bentley farm, Wichita Falls, TX,June, 1913
      -J.W. Hawkins demonstration farm, Boyd, Wise Co.,
      TX, June, 1908
      -Cotton on C.G. Svenson farm, Rhome, Wise Co., TX,
      June, 1908
      -Cotton demonstration farm, Boyd, Wise Co., TX,
      Sept. 1908
      -Corn and cowpeas in alternate rows on farm at
      Boyd, Wise Co., TX, Sept, 1908
    63. Women's clubs
      -Mangum Club lesson in pruning and insect damage,
      group of women and girls, c.1913

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