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The Ohio Daily Express
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
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In Yazoo City, Mississippi, a modern $36,984 agricultural building and curb market opened last week, becoming the center for Negro agricultural extension work after 16 years of progress started by county agent D. W. Lindsey in 1934. Community raised $4,984; county funded the rest. Exemplifies farmers' success, like those owning 600 acres with $7,000 timber income in 1948. Similar advances in Washington and Bolivar counties.
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YAZOO CITY, Miss. (ANP) Sixteen years of progress was climaxed here last week when a modern $36,984 agricultural building and curb market, which will become the center of Negro agricultural extension work, was opened. The occasion heralds improved farming and home making methods to the rural Negro population of this county.
[Example of progress:] land nearby. They jumped at the chance. With the help of their county agent, they gradually increased the fertility of their land and little by little, added to their holdings.
Today, they own 600 acres. About half of it is in woodland, a crop that brought them $7,000 in 1948, and they still have plenty of timber left.
Similar progress has been made in two other Delta counties, Washington and Bolivar.
County agent D. W. Lindsey of Yazoo began the Negro extension program in 1934.
The building was adopted as a county-wide objective in 1949. The Yazoo county Negro farm bureau sponsored the effort.
A total of $4,984 was raised in a drive with the co-operation of Negro farmers, civic organizations and business firms. This money was used to buy a 80 by 90 foot building site and to pay an architect.
Realizing that funds raised would not be adequate to complete the project, the Negro county agents and a committee of 11 leaders presented the blueprints and specification to the county board of supervisors and asked for their cooperation. In August, 1949, the supervisors voted to construct the building with public funds.
After the $26,049 building contract was let, the site was deeded to Yazoo county by the Negro farm bureau. The entire project is county property, and all expenses of its operation and upkeep will be borne by the county.
Total cost of the agriculture and curb market was $36,984. The curb market is used to teach processing and marketing to farm people, who can sell surplus products there without paying a fee.
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Last Week (Circa 1950); Program Began 1934; Adopted 1949
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Opening of agricultural building and curb market in Yazoo City after 16 years of Negro extension work by D. W. Lindsey since 1934. Community raised $4,984 for site; county funded construction in 1949, total cost $36,984. Exemplifies farmers' progress to 600 acres ownership and $7,000 timber income in 1948. Similar in Washington and Bolivar counties.