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This booklet was written by Annie Laura Peterson, a member of a North Carolina tomato club. Within the booklet, she reflected and described her experiences with the club.

Beulah Prapst reflected on her experiences in her local tomato club in this booklet. All club members were expected to create a club journal.

This black and white photograph is an example of a very small tobacco farm. This is a rural setting in which the whole family is involved in the production of tobacco.

This black and white photograph shows African-American women preparing and processing tobacco by hand, a method that is rarely used today.

This is a black and white photograph of a farmers controlling a mule drawn sled. They are using draft power to harvest tobacco leaves.

A black and white photograph of African-American farmers using a tractor and modern machinery to mechanize the tobacco transplanting process.

In this photograph, men are spraying peach trees with some type of pesticide from a tank located in the back of a wagon being pulled by a mule.

This is an image of a home in rural Guilford County that has just been set up for electricity.

This bulletin appears in the 1942 Extension Circular. It discusses the demand to increase peanut production to provide oil for the war effort. It gives cultural advice to peanut farmers to help increase their yield.

This photograph shows two men spraying pesticides on the apple orchards at the Agricultural Experiment Station in Wilkes County.