Tents were pitched in this room and Miss Barton and her staff lived there until June 30, when the field was officially closed.
Miss Barton and her party went to Washington, leaving Dr. Hubbell, the general field agent and myself.
Crops of vegetables and corn, building and ditching were in progress and instruction was necessary, and this instruction was given as follows:
Each day we would meet from fifty to three or four hundred people and give them a good practical talk, with about these headings for notes:
“Owe no man anything.”
How to keep out of debt.
Don’t sell cotton before it is picked.
Plant more vegetables, and why.
Divide cottages into rooms.
Don’t mortgage, which was a continuation of the instruction given daily from the beginning of the field.