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Fiske, Emmett P. – Rural Sociologist, 1989
Traces the development of extension education from 1887 to the Smith-Lever Act of 1914. Focuses on the roles of U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant Industry and the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations in fostering federal legislation that established the Cooperative Extension System. (SV)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Educational History, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
