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Excerpt from And That's the Way It Was, 1920-1980: The 60-Year History of Extension Home Economics Work in North Carolina
Dr. Knapp was 70 years old before undertaking Farmers Cooperative Demonstration Work, and he came to it magnificently equipped, for it had been said that he spent 70 years preparing for 7 years of the great work of his life.
At this time cotton was king of money crops on southern farms. The destructive boll weevil arrived in Texas in 1903 and spread rapidly over the cotton growing states, which brought financial tragedy to the farmers. A large appropriation was made by Congress to fight the boll weevil. The Secretary of Agriculture, Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, and others were convinced that the demonstration method of teaching was the way to work toward destroying and controlling the boll weevil. On January 25, 1904 Dr. Knapp was directed to open offices in Houston, Texas.
We have an Agricultural Extension Service today because of Dr. Knapp's revolutionary movement in education, and out-of - the-class room setting for teaching people on the farm and in the home to use practical and useful information proven by the demonstration method in solving problems and meeting needs. This successful method of teaching came about because of Dr. Knapp's concern and foresight for the southern farmers to improve agricultural and homemaking procedures. This adult educational movement caught quickly the attention of southern farmers, their wives, sons and daughters.
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