By the Associated Press
Raleigh, N.C., March 22—The live-at-home program begun by North Carolina is meeting with hearty response in the state and is now being adopted by a number of other Southern states, according to B.W. Kilgore, Director of the Extension Service of the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Kilgore is in receipt of letters from five other Southern states commending the plan and requesting all available information about it, so that similar movements could be inaugurated in those states.
Virginia is the latest state to adopt such a plan, Mr. Kilgore said. He has just receive a letter from Professor John R. Hutcheson, Director of Extension Service at Blacksburg, saying:
“Following your lead, we are putting on an ‘Agricultural Independence Campaign’ in this state to begin the first week in April. I have asked the Governor to issue a proclamation I regard to the matter. I am therefore writing to ask tha you send me a copy of the proclamation that the Governor of North Carolina used in regards to your campaign.”
This information has been supplied Professor Hutcheson, together with copies of the North Carolina boll weevil program, enlistment blanks for the live-at-home movement and other material issued by the workers of the State College of Agriculture in furtherance of the movement in North Carolina this year.
Arkansas is also following closely in the footsteps of North Carolina on this project, it is stated. Dan T. Gray, formerly in charge of livestock work in North Carolina, is now Dean and Director of the Extension Service of the former state. The officials of the Arkansas Extension Service have copied the North Carolina enlistment blank and have added two items to the 10 that already appeared on the pledge. T. Roy Redi, Assistant Director of Extension in Arkansas, wrote to Director Kilgore and said:
“In a conference of our supervising agents and specialists, we decided to adopt the plan which is being used in your state so successfully as a part of the program which we put on this year for a ‘Prosperous Arkansas.’ It is our plan to present an honor certificate to the farmers who agree to do eight of the things mentioned in the pledge, and then carries them out. Your courtesy in sending blanks and forms used in your office is appreciated and I am hoping that we may have some measure of success in putting it over; in fact, we hope within the next year or two to have as many or more honor farmers as there are in North Carolina.”
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, March 22, 1924
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