Birth of Modern Agricultural Extension Services

Question 1

Founding of the ROYAL AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY (RAIS) of Ireland which is modeled after Britain’s Royal Agricultural Society.

Answer 1

1841

Question 2

Why was RAIS created?

Answer 2

“to foster the creation of local agricultural societies and to act as a central
organization for them” (Jones, 1982: 13).

Question 3

Outbreak of a fungus disease in Europe

Answer 3

potato blight

Question 4

When did potato had an outbreak in Europe?

Answer 4

1845

Question 5

the newly-appointed British viceroy to Ireland, the Earl of Clarendon, urged the RAIS to
appoint

Answer 5

ITINERANT LECTURERS to travel around the distressed districts to INFORM and
SHOW small farmers how to IMPROVE CULTIVATION and GROW NUTRITIOUS CROPS.

Question 6

the first Director of Extension at the University
of Chicago in the year 1892.

Answer 6

Moulton

Question 7

TWO DEVELOPMENTS significant to the evolution of agricultural extension in the USA.

Answer 7

• The signing of the MORRILL ACT of 1862 by Pres. Lincoln during the Civil War
  provided for the creation of LAND GRANT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.
• The beginning of FARMERS’ INSTITUTE MOVEMENTS.

Question 8

established a cooperative bond between the US Department of Agriculture and
the nation’s land grant colleges by providing annual federal funding for agricultural experiment
stations in all the states.

Answer 8

HATCH ACT

Question 9

Both made possible the “on-campus” teaching component of the land-grant mission.

Answer 9

Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890

Question 10

Hatch Act of 1887

Answer 10

It operationalized the research component.

Question 11

It extended the teaching and research activities of land grants into the community with the creation of the Extension Service.

Answer 11

Smith-Lever Act of 1914