A History of Agricultural Education in the United States, 1785-1925 (Classic Reprint)
A History of Agricultural Education in the United States, 1785-1925 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Alfred Charles True

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 9781528348256

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Excerpt from A History of Agricultural Education in the United States, 1785-1925 Part 7. Secondary education in agriculture, 1862 - 1925 Disappearance of agriculture from secondary schools, 1862 - 1880 Beginning of a new movement for agriculture in secondary schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

William I. Myers and the Modernization of American Agriculture
William I. Myers and the Modernization of American Agriculture

Author: Douglas Slaybaugh

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781557532794

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During the farm credit crisis brought on by the Great Depression, Myers served in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal government, writing the legislation to consolidate federal farm credit programs. After a brief stint as deputy governor, he became governor of the Farm Credit Administration in 1933. Myers led the agency to two great successes: saving thousands of farms from bankruptcy and establishing a permanent, government-sponsored credit system for farmers comparable to what private banks provided industry. Myers returned to Cornell in 1938 and served for nearly fifteen years as dean of the College of Agriculture. Myers also served on the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, which was instituting agricultural research programs that would enable developing nations to become more productive, self-reliant, and anticommunist members of the global community.