The rural teacher and his work in community leadership, in school administration, and in mastery of the school subjects . r forces to improve the nations agricultural life. Thecounty agricultural expert, where does he come from?And the institute workers who appear occasionally in thecommunity? And the moving school for rural uplift?They should all be familiar to the teachers, who will soonbe expected to cooperate with these workers in school andout of it. The Extension Service. — A great national extensionservice has been organized through Federal, state, andlocal cooperation. The United State
The rural teacher and his work in community leadership, in school administration, and in mastery of the school subjects . r forces to improve the nations agricultural life. Thecounty agricultural expert, where does he come from?And the institute workers who appear occasionally in thecommunity? And the moving school for rural uplift?They should all be familiar to the teachers, who will soonbe expected to cooperate with these workers in school andout of it. The Extension Service. — A great national extensionservice has been organized through Federal, state, andlocal cooperation. The United States Department ofAgriculture has a thoroughly equipped States Relation OTHER EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS 83 Service, working through a number of department bureaus,which culminates in a great field service for the North andWest and a separate service for the South. The Govern-ment field workers, it will appear from the chart, cooperatewith the extension service of the state agricultural colleges. 0RG/W/Z^7JCW OFAGf^a/mj/ML EXTENSA mm//V77/£t//W7n? ST/WES. \DeRWm£NrOFA3R/Cai7UffE. I I COLLEGE OF/\GfXVmM\. Fig. 8. - Chart prepared by the U. S. Department of Agriculture for theEducational exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The state colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts wereestablished under the Morrill Act of 1862, which set asidelarge tracts of land from the public domain for their main-tenance. This was further strengthened by a second actin 1890 which provided liberal financial assistance to theland-grant colleges, as these schools are now called. Muchof the Federal aid has gone for extension work. The statecolleges of agriculture are organized for three main purposes :teaching, research, and extension. The first is a naturalfunction of all schools of this class. Agricultural researchis accomplished through the experiment stations, organizedin connection with the agricultural colleges, under the 84 THE RURAL TEACHER AND HIS WORK Hatch Act of 1887. Final
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