The Present Trend of Collegiate Instruction in Poultry Husbandry

Abstract

Agricultural education is young. Until recently it has enjoyed so rapid a growth, found itself so popular and life so interesting, that the pains it has felt now and then, have been accorded little attention. When these pains have forced their way into consciousness, they all have been looked upon as growing pains, inevitable and unimportant. On occasion they have been treated with temporary palliatives, sometimes harmless, sometimes habit forming and harmful, and then promptly forgotten.Due to numerous causes collegiate agricultural education recently has been brought to take more careful stock of itself than ever before. Among these causes may be mentioned: first, the passing of the first flush of youthful enthusiasm followed by the agricultural depression with its attendant decreases in enrollment in agricultural courses; second, the rapid and widespread development of agricultural courses in high schools and other secondary schools, combined with the growth of agricultural extension .