Hereford cattle farming in the United States. Cattle graze on the farm. A barn, a windmill and a farmhouse are seen in the background. A cowboy seated on horseback. Cowboys herd the cattle back to the corral. A cowboy on horseback looks on. Hereford cows moving on the field, tended by cowboys.
Farming in the United States. A horse drawn cradle cuts wheat. Farmers work in the farm. They arrange wheat in shocks.
A forest in the United States. Aerial view of the forest. A man seated in a Ford car drives it across fields and in the forest along a dirt road. A forest fire (possibly intentionally set to clear an area). Smoke columns rise. Cables placed around a stump and another tree and the stump and tree are pulled out of the ground. Lumber workmen cut off the roots of trees.
Buildings of Tuskegee Institution. Exterior views of many buildings of the Tuskegee Institute. Picture of Booker T Washington. Instructors train students in carpentry, farming and dairy farm. A Jessup wagon, used to transport trained extension agents for teaching farming skills to African American farmers in Alabama, is inspected.
Representative from United States Department of Agriculture meet Thomas Monroe Campbell, a Tuskegee Agricultural graduate working in a field. They talk. A Supervisor and the States Extension Director discuss appointment of Thomas Campbell as an Extension Agent. Next scenes show Mr. Campbell in his role as an extension agent, using skills learned from the Tuskegee Institute to instruct rural African American farmers to inoculate hogs against cholera. He also demonstrates pruning of trees. Farmers in a corn field use hoe.
Home demonstration agent at Tuskegee Institute trains women as part of a Tuskegee Institute "Movable Schools" education outreach program. Collins, a farmer, meets a preacher. Two men with a poster from State Agriculture College. The poster advertises the upcoming arrival of a "Movable School" in the Alabama town. People read the poste and move to attend the school. Knapp truck (A Ford truck called the Knapp Agricultural Truck, so named to honor Seaman A. Knapp, of the national Cooperative Extension System) arrives with a group of instructors. Rural agricultural community of African American people learn skills from the movable school as they work in garden, water plants, erect stairs, mend houses, sharpen tools and make baskets. People learn carpentry under the guidance of an African American instructor. A new poultry house replaces an old hen house. A man views through a transit device as they learn about creating terraced farming plots.