FARMERS' CONFERENCE ADDRESS BY PROF. G.W. CARVER Of The Department Of Research And Experiment Station Tuskegee Normal And Industrial Institute Tuskegee Institute, Alabama [cover title: "Two Great Money Crops Of The South. At The Voorhees Farmers' Conference, February 16, 1921. Denmark, S.C.] (Iowa Agricultural College/Iowa State University)

Photos, 9 x 6", printed stapled grey wraps, 24pp. Waterstaining/wrinkling affecting covers and text, last couple of pages have small tears else good. George Washington Carver attended Iowa Agricultural College (now Iowa State University) where he achieved a Masters Degree in Agriculture. Soon after graduation he left for the Tuskegee Institute, being offered the job of head of the newly established agriculture department by its founder and first president, Booker T. Washington. The Institute first started holding an annual "Negro Farmers' Conference" starting in 1892, with Carver's involvement attendance and activities increased. In this address he discusses sweet potato and peanut products. He praises the work of Dr. J.H. Kellogg of the Kellogg Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan saying that he "has possibly gone further in he development of the food and medicinal side of the peanut than any one with whom I am acquainted". Also included are articles on Voorhees history; Miss E.E. Wright the founder of the Voorhees N. and I. School, Voorhees extension work. Plus several photographs ie. the Farmers' Conference, school grounds, Principal Dr. E.R. Roberts and Mr. M.A. Menafee. At the front are several warm compliments to Washington. Not in the National Union Catalogue, Library of Congress and possibly not in the archives of Iowa State University or Tuskegee. NOL. Extremely SCARCE. …