"The home economics teacher attracted the attention of all the colored farmers and also the white visitors by constructing out of dry goods boxes an attractive and substantial dresser and washstand, completing the same before the audience, even to the staining, varnishing, hanging the mirrors and attaching the draperies." One paper, in estimating the value of these Movable Agricultural Schools said: "Given ten years of good practical agricultural instruction of the kind that was imparted to the Negro farmers, their wives and children, for the past three weeks in Wilcox, Perry, and Lowndes counties, there is no reason why every Negro farmer in the State should not only help 'Alabama feed herself,' but so increase the yield of its marketable products that the State will be able to export millions of dollars' worth of food and foodstuffs each year." These Extension Schools are advertised by posters just like a country circus, except that the language is less grandiloquent. On the following page is a typical announcement presented in heavy black type on yellow paper. [Illustration: Co-operative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics STATE OF ALABAMA FARMERS ATTENTION! AN EXTENSION SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS FOR COLORED FARMERS, BOYS, GIRLS, AND WOMEN WILL BE HELD IN PERRY COUNTY AT MARION, FEBRUARY 8-9 MORNING STAR COMMUNITY, FEBRUARY 11-12 _COME AND BRING YOUR FAMILY!_ THE PROGRAM OF THE SCHOOL WILL EMBRACE THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS AND MANY OTHERS. --FOR MEN AND BOYS-- Diversified Farming for the South, "A Ray of Hope to the Man with the Hoe." How to Make the Cotton Farm Fertile--Every Farmer Must Feed Himself. Care and Treatment of Live Stock--"To Thee, my Master, I offer my prayer; feed me, water and care for me, and when the day's work is done, provide me with shelter."--From the Horses' Prayer. Cotton Growing under Boll Weevil Conditions--Looks like Billie Boll Weevil is here to stay. Waste caused by weeds, stumps and skips. Corn--Seed testing. Dairying and Its Possibilities in Alabama. Sweet Potatoes--How to grow and save them. --FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS-- "Home Made Home."--A Home should be more than a place in which to eat and sleep. The Health of the Family--Much responsibility rests on the Mother. Child Welfare--Every 4th Negro baby dies before it is One Year Old. Fifty per cent of the diseases of Negro children under One Year can be prevented. The Care of the Girls and Boys on the Farm--Make them your partners in the business of Home Making. Demonstration in Cookery--Too few of our women and girls know how to cook. A FREE PICTURE SHOW WILL BE GIVEN ONE NIGHT AT EVERY MEETING PLACE This Extension School is being held under the auspices of the Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. The subjects will be discussed by experts from the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.