Article: Lever Act
Dictionary of American History;      340 words ...LEVER ACT LEVER ACT. Congress passed the Lever Food and Fuel Control Act on 10 August ... food and fuel resources for World War I. Among other things, the Lever Act prohibited "unfair" trade practices and authorized price fixing of ...

Article: Modernizing agriculture: a continuing process.
Daedalus;  September 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Hatch Act of 1887 provided for state agricultural experiment station support; and the Smith-Lever Act of 1914 provided for agricultural extension support.(4) These legislative acts and the institutions developed and supported by them were ...

Article: LAND ONCE CUTTING EDGE; MIAMI COUNTY'S EXPERIMENT FARM WAS A ...
Dayton Daily News;  January 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... After Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act in 1914, Miami County's agricultural extension agent, George Eastwood, took charge ... farm. He later became a full-time agricultural extension agent and, in compliance with a ...

Article: WEEK FETES WORK OF COOPERATIVE EXTENSION, 4-H; EVENTS PLANNED AT ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  October 6, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... of Agriculture and the nation's land-grant colleges. In 1918, the Smith-Lever Act provided money for cooperative administration of agricultural extension education by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the land-grant colleges ...

Article: Effects of training on skill development of agricultural ...
Journal of Social Sciences;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) is the largest ... provides unified agricultural extension services to farmers ... provide high quality agricultural extension services, the DAE ...

Article: Agricultural Extension, 2d ed. (book reviews)
Crop Science;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... textbook for the training of novice agricultural extension workers. By "novice" I refer ... have concluded that thinking about agricultural extension has changed as greater consideration ... not just one optimal approach to agricultural extension work, so they have tried to present ...

Article: Agricultural extension
Rural Sociology;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... A.W. AND H.S. HAWKINS. Agricultural Extension. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Sciences ... focus of this second edition is on agricultural extension in less industrialized countries ... the 1840s), the major goals of agricultural extension programs, and the growing social ...