ABSTRACT
Agricultural periodicals, county and state fairs, and the annual publications of agricultural societies and of the Agricultural Division of the Patent Office together constituted an educational force of growing significance. Some, such as the Farmers' Register and Mapes's Working Farmer, copied liberally from the best British periodicals. Despite the lukewarm attitude of farmers, who feared anything that might mean higher taxes, the movement of agricultural education began to achieve results. Meantime, the movement for scientific education for farmers and mechanics was given considerable impetus when James F. W. Johnston came to America to lecture. The clamor for vocational education became strident in the fifties as farmers became increasingly aware of its importance, workingmen's groups began to give the movement their support, and industrialists recognized that technical education of workingmen at public expense would be beneficial to them. Farmers were not ready to follow their leaders in the movement for agricultural education.
