may 8, 1914 - Signs “An Act To provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States [“land grant colleges”] receiving the benefits of an Act of Congress approved July second eighteen hundred and sixty-two. . .” (38 Stat 372) Also known as the Smith-Lever Act. The goal was to give instruction and practical demonstrations to farmers throughout the states
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may 8, 1914
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