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Excerpt from Education for Country Life The movement to develop scientific agriculture was seriously en tered upon in the year 1862 when Congress passed the organic law of the Department of Agriculture, and also gave to each State an endowment of lands with which to establish a State college of agri culture and mechanic arts. In 1887 Congress provided for each State and Territory an annual appropriation of with which to maintain an agricultural experiment station. Annually for the last twenty years Congress has added larger and larger sums to its grants for agricultural research and education in the above-named institutions, and the State legislatures have con tributed, at first in smaller amounts, but later with increasing liber ality, to the ever-growing funds devoted to building up a science of agriculture, and to the much greater work of carrying this new knowl edge to the people. There has been thus spent something less than in agricultural research and education. The major part of it during the last twenty years. 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.