DEMONSTRATION WORK IN INCIDENT, STORY AND SONG 



Sweet Potatoes. But i read your advice aBout them. Will 

 close. Yourse, 



(Signed) Wm. Washington. 



Hundreds of letters like this and thousands of reports 

 from negro farmers doubtless caused Booker T. Washington 

 to form the opinion which he expressed in an article in the 

 World's Work for July, 1908, entitled, '' Teaching a Man His 

 Job." He said: 



"If I were to name a single instance of this new policy 

 of taking education to the man on the job, an instance which 

 seems to me more thorough-going and more fruitful of good 

 than any other of which I know, I should refer to the work 

 that the General Education Board is doing in connection 

 with the Agricultural Department of Washington, in order 

 to instruct the farmers of the South, by practical demonstra- 

 tions on their own farms, in the newer and better methods 

 of cultivating the soil. No other single agency, I am sure, 

 is destined to do more in the task of creating the New 

 South." 



The Difference Between an Experiment anp a 

 Demonstration 



A state superintendent of public instruction went to 

 Dr. Knapp after the Demonstration Work had been develop- 

 ing about two years, and asked his advice in regard to 

 having some experiments conducted on the farms of the agri- 

 cultural high schools in his State. Dr. Knapp told him that 

 he might have some experiments and tests made over on the 

 back side of the farm, preferably behind the woods, but 

 after that was done it would be a good idea to have some 

 high-class demonstrations made out in front, on the public 

 highway, where the farmers could profit by them. 



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