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The Reluctant Farmer
Roy Vernon Scott
其他書名
The Rise of Agricultural Extension to 1914
出版University of Illinois Press, 1971
主題Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General
ISBN02520009199780252000911
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QtRJAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Roy Scott here surveys the rise of agricultural extension education in the United States from the 1780s to 1914. He examines in detail attempts by the farm press, local agricultural clubs and societies, county fairs, and colleges to improve farming devices. Scott shows that these otherwise useful agencies and institutions all found it nearly impossible to convenice farmers of the value of science. There was a stigma attached to "book farming," and the abundance of cheap and fertile land strengthened stubborn convictions that new techniques were unnecessary and unwise. It remained for Seaman Knapp and several others to point the way through demonstration, to show farmers ways to more productive agriculture. The enactment of the Smith-Lever Act in 1914 provided legislative founding for the expansion of the demonstration method throughout the United States.