THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



By extension work, I mean all kinds of 

 teaching with the people at their homes 

 and on the farms. The three great phases 

 or sides of agricultural college work, as I 

 have said (page 228), are the experiment 

 or research, the regular college teaching, 

 and the outside teaching. The college 

 teaching must be founded directly on the 

 knowledge gained in research, and the ex- 

 tension work must be founded on both. 



A college of agriculture cannot serve the 

 state as it is capable of doing without en- 

 gaging in many kinds of extension work. 

 It ought to serve farmers who cannot go 

 to college, or who do not know what a col- 

 lege is. The college must be taken to the 

 people. All state colleges should become 

 a real part of the machinery of society (or 

 the state), participating directly in all 

 work for the good of the people, so far as 

 such work comes within the range of their 

 subject-matter. The agricultural colleges, 

 thereby, may express the needs and the 

 ideals of the people on the land. 



Although much extension work of an 

 agricultural nature has been done, it is 

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