# Helping Negroes to Become Better Farmers and Homemakers

Helping Negroes to Become Better Farmers and Homemakers Produced: 1921 Description This film contains the following: In reel 1, Black and white agents of the Extension Service (Dept. of Agriculture) visit Black farmers in the South instructing them in methods of eliminating boll weevils, inoculating hogs against cholera, and pruning and spraying fruit trees. Shots of agents attending classes at Tuskegee Institute are also included. Reel 2 includes an extension school that is set up on a Black farm and neighboring farmers are instructed in building hen-houses, terracing, storing sweet potatoes, and improving the comfort and beauty of their homes. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7134

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1921
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/33-156-r2)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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