Allocations of Colleges and Economists

Abstract

States is practiced in the two major citadels of agricultural intelligence, namely, colleges of agriculture and the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Research and educational programs in these two major public institutions, as well as the structure of income transfers flowing from the USDA, have come under growing criticism in recent years. Foundation of the criticisms has been that of equity and the concentration of public payments and benefits of research and education to the wealthy, while the poor and disadvantaged of rural areas are neglected. The most recent, and perhaps the most devastating, attack on programs of the agricultural colleges include the recent Congressional activity through the Migratory Labor Subcommittee hearings on Land Grant Colleges and the hurried paperback, Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times by Hightower [11]. Appearance of these two communications caused a scurry among land grant university administrators, who generally have reacted to these criticisms through white papers defending ongoing patterns or promising to do more.