Seaman A. Knapp : : Schoolmaster of American Agriculture / / Joseph Cannon Bailey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Bailey, Joseph Cannon,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]; ©1945
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia University Studies in the History of American Agriculture ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)

Studies the life of Seaman A. Knapp as the founder of farm demonstration work and boys and girls clubs from which derived the Cooperative Extension Service of the United States.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Editors' Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Part 1. The Making of a Teacher and an Agriculturist -- I. A Homespun Childhood -- II . A Classical Education and the Classical Educator -- III. The Reeducation of a Pedagogue and Farmer -- IV. The New Education for Agriculture -- V. A Venture in Land Settlement -- Part 2. The Founding of the County Agricultural Agent System -- VI . A Program to Promote Agriculture in the South -- VII . The Discovery of The Agricultural Demonstration Technique -- VIII. The Boll Weevil Emergency -- IX. The Organization of the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work -- X . The Growth of the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work -- XI . Extension of the County Farm Agent System -- Part 3. The Institutionalization of an Individual -- XII . The Passage of the Smith-Lever Act -- Bibliography -- Index