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The Role of the Dairy Technologist in Extension¹

Federal Extension Service, USDA, Washington, D. C.

ABSTRACT

HISTORICAL

I appreciate your invitation to discuss with you a subject as vital to Extension as the one you have given to me. Dairy technology and Extension methodology have changed with marked rapidity over the years that Extension has played its role in the development of American agriculture. One of my earliest recollections of Extension work prior to the passage of the Smith-Lever Act was a demonstrator from the Dairy Department of the Agricultural College, who appeared at a Farmers' Institute, and who gave a demonstration for the women on butter making.

There is little doubt in my mind that there was a great need for improved technology in butter making in those days. One of my earliest recollections of playing the role of a dairy technologist was providing the necessary energy to turn a small churn in the summer kitchen at home. My most vivid memory was the day when, in my haste to get the job done, I turned the churn over before my Mother had fastened the top.

¹ Presented to the Dairy Manufacturing Extension Section at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science Association, June, 1960.