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Correlation of Extension and Resident Work in Animal Husbandry

University of Wisconsin

Abstract

A few years ago Dean Davenport as honor guest at the annual dinner of the American Society of Animal Production pictured to us in a very interesting way the early history of the agricultural colleges and experiment stations. While the farmer college, so-called, raised many doubts in the minds of practical farmers, the experiment station, which tested and demonstrated many things of economical importance, enjoyed the confidence of the agricultural constituency more than did the college. Farmers were eager to consult with the experimenters who had actually found out certain things and were not supposedly merely theorizing about principles and practices.

As the demands for help and information taxed the staffs of agricultural colleges and experiment stations more and more, the extension service was called into being and it is today the most important agency in disseminating agricultural information. It seemed to our honor guest that farmers nevertheless continued to want their information first-hand and that there was a tendency to come back to the original system of an experimenter doing extension work.