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Agent J. W. Jeffries and African American farmers learning about methods of pines as cash crop

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Title:
Agent J. W. Jeffries and African American farmers learning about methods of pines as cash crop
Description:
Transcribed from back: Farm Forestry Series [#542], By R. W. Graeber, Extension Forester; Negro farmers with their local agent, J.W. Jeffries, getting a lesson in "How to Make Pine Trees a Farm Cash Crop," at farm of W.J. Shaw ([colored]), Alamance county.
Topics:
Community and Extension
Forestry
Subjects:
African American farmers
African Americans -- History
Cash crops
Forest management
Forestry extension workers
Pine
Original Format:
Black and white print (photograph)
Item identifier:
ua023_007-008-bx0033-007-002
Photographer:
Graeber, R. W. (Robert Walter), 1888-1967 more info on Graeber, R. W. (Robert Walter), 1888-1967 
Created Date:
Names:
Jeffries, J. W. more info on Jeffries, J. W. 
Location:
Alamance County (N.C.)
Digital Project:
University Archives Photographs