THE AGRICULTURAL PHASE 71 



the teaching of agriculture and to the love of 

 country life. This aspect is yet in its early 

 experimental stage. The time will come when 

 some institution in every State will carry on work 

 along this line. It will be several years yet before 

 this type of work will have reached what may be 

 considered an established condition or before even 

 a satisfactory body of experience shall have been 

 attained. Out of the varied and sometimes 

 conflicting methods and aims that are now before 

 the public there will develop in time an institution- 

 movement of extension agriculture teaching.'' 



A nature-study movement alone is not sufficient 

 to awaken and reconstruct all the agricultural 

 interests. There should be coordinate efforts 

 outside the schools. In order merely to suggest 

 other lines of effort — and not to commend any 

 particular movement — the following classification 

 of the Cornell extension work may be made: 

 This extension activity in agriculture is regularly 

 and systematically reaching about 75,000 people 

 in that State. Indirectly the work spreads to far 

 greater numbers. Several causes have combined to 

 produce this result, four of which are paramount. 

 ( I ) The people are ready for the work : they 

 want to learn. (2) Certain persons are ready to 

 do the work: they want to teach. (3) The 

 persons into whose hands the work has fallen are 

 given freedom and autonomy : they are not 

 restricted or hampered by those in authority. 

 (4) The State appropriates money : the appropri- 

 ation is made because work is done. 



