CHAPTER IV 

 Organization for Dairy Education 



Dairying is specialization in farming, and is never carried 

 on to the complete exclusion of all other types of farming. 

 In our system of education there is the same relation be- 

 tween dairying and the general field of agriculture as ob- 

 tains in practice. The machinery that promotes dairying 

 is a part of the organization that is devoted to the investi- 

 gation of all agricultural subjects and to the dissemination 

 of all agricultural knowledge. Our present organization 

 for agricultural education owes its existence to the Morrill 

 Act of 1862 which made provision for the establishment 

 in each state and territory of a land-grant college to teach 

 agriculture and the mechanic arts. In 1887 the Hatch Act 

 provided for the organization of an experiment station as 

 a department in each land-grant college. In these land- 

 grant colleges four-year courses in dairying are given as 

 well as short courses covering only the more practical 

 phases. In addition to the land-grant colleges, numerous 

 private colleges, academies, and high schools over the coun- 

 try are now teaching agriculture, including dairying. 



Agricultural education of the higher order is of little 

 value if it can not be scattered among the farmers that actu- 

 ally turn the sod; and in order that the scientific principles 

 developed in the laboratory may be actually put into prac- 

 tice on every farm in the country there has been organized 

 special machinery whereby agricultural science can be popu- 

 larized. Among these are institutes, instructional trains, 

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