REPORT 



ON 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 



IN THE 



UNITED STATES. 



Education in the United States is a matter which is left to 

 the Governments of the separate States to arrange as they 

 think proper, but the Federal Congress has from time to time 

 voted permanent appropriations for grants of money to the 

 different States for the support of agricultural and technical 

 educational institutions, which the latter are at liberty to 

 accept, provided they comply with the conditions attaching to 

 such grants. In this way were established the State Agri- 

 cultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, which have played 

 so great a part in the development of agriculture in this country, 

 and which are destined to play a still greater part in the future. 

 One of their greatest functions is to provide teachers for that 

 agricultural instruction which is now being increasingly intro- 

 duced into the curriculum of high schools and primary schools 

 in many States of the Union. 



There is not, therefore, necessarily any uniformity of educa- 

 tion throughout the United States, each State having its own 

 system, but the action of the Federal Education Bureau 

 and of the Federal Department of Agriculture, especially 

 perhaps the latter, tends to unite the efforts made throughout 

 the country for progress and reform in agricultural education. 

 Their action will probably have the effect of evolving in 

 course of time similarity, if not complete uniformity, in the 

 methods of agricultural education adopted by the different 

 States. 



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