opinions of the leaders of extension work in the United

States. The personal equation has been used because of the newness of the field.

Summary.

This thesis does not represent a complete work. With new problems in extension arising every day and with new extension work springing up in various institutions and organizations, who come in contact with the farmer, it would be an almost impossible task to make a complete survey of this field of agricultural education. Neither has any attempt been made to work up a complete bibliography on the subject of Agricultural Extension. The partial list that is given simply represents that material that referred directly to the problem under consideration.

If this work arouses an interest in oth

ers to go on with the problem of investigation and if it clarifies and explains some phases of the situation as they exist to-day, it will have accomplished its purpose.

"The trail must still be blazed," says President A.M. Soule, of the Georgia State College of Agriculture," and patience and foresight must be exercised with regard to the extension movement. As a means of getting in touch with the farm, the home and the school and giving a new impulse to their activities, and of harmonizing the effort of the town and city so that they may work together for their mutual benefit and uplift,no other phase of educational work yet devised, promises so much. Mistakes will no doubt be made, but in the end these obstacles will be overcome, and with the inaugaration of this

movement on a scale commensurate with the needs of the age, there will be ushered in an era of progressive achievment on the part of the American Farmer such as only the "idealist " has hitherto conceived possible or the poet dared to translate into rhyme."

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1. Office of Experiment Stations. Bull.No.231.- Page 51.