THE AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL 
By Dr. Davin SNEDDEN, Commtis- 
SIONER OF EDUCATION. 
Because of the general interest in 
the Essex County Agricultural School, 
we are pleased to put before our read- 
ers, a series of four articles by the 
Commissioner of Education, on the 
aims, scope and methods of work in 
schools designed primarily to fit boys 
to be successful farmers. (Editor.) 
1. The Need of the Agricultural 
School 
There is a general demand through- 
cout the United States for the estai- 
lishment of schools wherein young 
persons from 14 to 18 years of age 
may be taught agriculture in such a 
way that they shall be able to combine 
practical efficiency with scientific 
knowledge in that subject. 
_ Each state of the Union now has its 
agricultural college. These colleges 
offer several types of instruction in 
agriculture, but they concern them- 
selves chiefly with students of college 
grade—that is young persons who 
have completed regular high school 
- courses. who are at least 18 years old, 
and who intend to study for four 
years and obtain a degree. 
The number of persons who have 
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the time, money or ability to take the 
regular college courses in agriculture 
willneverbe very large in proportion to 
the total agricultural population of any 
state. It is not certain that a large 
proportion of those taking such 
courses will become farmers in the 
sense in which that word is ordinarily 
understood. Many of them will be- 
come spcialists in work of agricultural 
investigation, some will become mana- 
ers or experts in connection with large 
agricultural enterprises, while others 
will enter commercial work, teaching 
or journalism in fields relating to agri- 
culture. In these positions agricul- 
tural college graduates will exert a 
profound influence, amply justifying 
the education given them; but it is 
not to be expected that many of them 
will be found following the work of 
farming on the small intensive and 
profitable scale which we expect of 
an agricultural population. 
Other types of work than leading to 
a degree are found in many agricul- 
tural colleges. Short practical courses 
for persons already engaged in farm- 
ing are common. Some agricultural 
colleges have “schools of agriculture” 
in which the admission requirements 
are simple, and the courses adapted 
to persons not having time or ability 
to obtain degrees. Extension courses 
are also carried on in various forms 
designed to extend the educational 
work of the college to farming neigh- 
borhoods and especially for the benefit 
of persons already engaged in some 
branch of agriculture. 
But the agricultural college cannot 
meet, except in slight degree, the need 
of practical education for the pursuit 
of farming as a career, as that need ex- 
ists in every agricultural community 
on the part of thousands of young 
people who cannot hope to have a col- 
lege education. For these it is nec- 
essary that agricultural schools should 
be located near at hand, that their 
courses should be adapted to the needs 
of young persons usually below college 
age and having little or no high school 
education, and that their work should 
be so practical and scientific as to re- 
sult in genuine ability to make farm- 
ing as a career not only commercially 
profitable, but attractive as well. 
This need is not to be set by estab- 
lishing other agricultural colleges. One 
agricultural college for each state is 
enough. Except as regards extension 
work, the student desiring to attend an 
agricultural college should go away 
from the home community. The col- 
lege can do its work best by having its 
resources concentrated at one spot. 
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