ABSTRACT
Agriculture is one of the oldest interests of the Rockefeller boards. Back in 1903, the newly organized General Education Board undertook a survey of the educational needs of the South. Each demonstration farm served its surrounding territory as a practical seminar in scientific agriculture, showing hundreds of farmers how to engineer a crop to a successful yield. The agricultural program of the International Education Board was directed by Albert R. Mann, who had been borrowed for the purpose from the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell. The Mexican Department of Agriculture created the Oficina de Estudios Especiales as a division to embody the joint undertaking, and it appointed Dr. J. George Harrar chief of Special Studies. As the International Education Board's ventures in agriculture had been guided by the General Education Board's experience, so The Rockefeller Foundation benefited by the earlier work of the International Education Board in the Far East.
