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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Columbia University Studies in the History of American Agriculture ; 10Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1945Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780231927529
  • 9780231890281
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 630/.924
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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