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1906-J.B. Pierce hired to work with fanners.
1906-First team demonstration at Burkeville.
1909- First club work in Virginia; 100 Com Club Boys in Chesterfield and Dinwiddie counties, under supervision of F.S. Farrar. Actually, instruction was made to each boy on his farm and were not the clubs as known today.
1910- First club work with girls in Halifax and Nottoway counties, with 46 Tomato Club girls under the supervision of Ella G. Agnew. The name was changed to tomato canning in 1911 and canning in 1912.
1911- First exhibit by club members at the state fair in Richmond by the girls club on canning.
1912- First out-of-state trip by girls club; to Columbia, S.C.
1913- First community club organized; Sunnyside in Dinwiddie County. A year later, it became the first club whose members cooperated to cooperatively market a product: eggs.
1914- Passage of Smith-Lever Act by Congress, establishing Extension. When act was passed, there were 1,500 com club members, girls’ garden clubs were growing rapidly and hundreds of farm demonstrations were being carried on about the state.
1915- First state short course for girls at Harrisonburg Normal School. Also was the year in which the first volunteer training was conducted.
1916- First director of extension work, J.D. Eggleston, was appointed.
1917- Club department established at Virginia Tech, and C.G. Burr was named first state boys’ club agent.
1918- Terms Agricultural and
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