Papers, ca. 1909-1920.

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Papers, ca. 1909-1920.

Correspondence, reports, crop reports, minutes of meetings, legislation, articles and photographs from Texas and Oklahoma relating to Bentley and his work with the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work, Oklahoma A & M College's Extension Division, and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) field work.

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United States. Department of Agriculture

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The United States Department of Agriculture was established in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln and was elevated to a Cabinet level organization by President Grover Cleveland in 1889. The Department of Agriculture assists farmers and producers of food as well as creating policies and programs related to food distribution and nutrition information. The United States Department of Agriculture controls a number of regional offices through out the continential United States and its territories....

Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work.

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Knapp, Seaman Ashahel, 1833-1911

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Seaman A. Knapp, a native of New York, attended the Troy Conference Academy (Green Mountain College) at Poultney, Vermont, where he met his wife, Maria Elizabeth Hotchkiss. He graduated from Union College in 1856 and after his marriage, he and his wife taught at Fort Edward Collegiate Institute. Mr. Knapp then became Vice President (1856-1863) at Fort Edward and then Assistant Manager (1864-1865) of the Ripley Female College. In 1866, Knapp and his family came to Iowa, where he served as a Metho...

Oklahoma Agriculture Experiment Station.

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Bentley, W. D. (Walter Dimmitt), 1856-1930.

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Special agent for the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work in Texas and Oklahoma and first director of the Extension Division at Oklahoma A & M College after it combined with the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work in 1914. Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work was a program sponsored by the USDA to demonstrate to farmers improved and diversified methods of farming. From the description of Papers, ca. 1909-1920. (Oklahoma State University Library...

Oklahoma A & M College. Extension Service.

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