ITINERANT INSTRUCTION IN AGRICULTURE

by

ADRIAN DAANE

A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF

MASTER OF SCIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

1914

INTRODUCTION

The subject, "Itinerant Instruction in Agricul

ture" is so comprehensive in its nature that volumnes could be written upon it, should one try to present all the details necessary to a complete account of work. By selecting the primal facts, however, and arranging them as nearly as possible in chronological order, one may follow the growth of the movement and begin to realize its vast importance to a world constantly increasing in population but not in area.

Europe is the pioneer in the itinerant agricultural instruction of its people. To account for its introduction here a brief resume of conditions that brought about such instruction will be given followed by a short account of the resultant work carried on in several of the European countries. From Europe and its problems we naturally pass to Canada and the United States. These countries while being influenced greatly by the European methods have profited by the older countries' mistakes and have developed a system which bids fair to revolutionize the farming industry of their people. The work is still in its formative period in the United States but it is progressing with such leaps and bounds that it will not be long before every farmer in the