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What can the Extension Man do to Assist Research?

Ohio Experiment Station

Abstract

A change of gear ratio between research and extension could be made to the advantage of agriculture.

Agencies engaged in teaching agriculture have expanded during the past decade more rapidly than has research. Ineluded in these agencies are the colleges, the extension folks, county agents and specialists, the vocational teachers in high schools and club work. Add to these also the managers of the county livestock shipping associations, commission agencies of the stock yards, railroads through their agricultural agents, feed companies through their salesmen and their advertising, and commercial concerns handling equipment of various kinds.

Agricultural colleges were established because higher education had proven very beneficial along other lines. With the establishment of the agricultural colleges it was soon found that there was little material available to teach. Numerous problems of long standing had never been touched, and the newly established agricultural colleges threw countless others into the hopper for solution. Experiment stations were established with this background as one of the important causes.