588 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



19. Sept. 17, 18, Th.^ F. Oswego, Oswego Co. Court House. 



Lodeman^ Slingerland^ Poioell. Roberts^ Cavanaugh. 



20. Sept. 18, 19, F., S. Mexico, Oswego Co. Town Hall. 



Lodeman^ Slingerland^ Clinton^ Cavanaugh^ Powell. 



21. Sept. 21, 22, Jf., T. Lowville, Lewis Co. Court House. 



Powell^ Duggar <& Slingerland^ Bailey. Clinton., 

 Cavanaiog/i . 



22. Sept. 22, 23, T., W. Poland, Herkimer Co. F. B. Church. 



Bailey., Duggar c§ Slingerland, Powell. Clinton., 

 Cavanaugh . 



23. Sept. 23, 24, TT., Th. Trenton, Oneida Co. Grange Hall. 



Bailey.) Sling erland cj& Duggar .^ Powell. Cavanaugh ^ 

 Clinton. 



24. Sept. 24, 25, Th., F. Clinton, Oneida Co. Scollard Opera 



House. Bailey ih Sling erland , Mrs. Comstock & Morrill^ 

 Bailey. Cavanaugh <& Duggar, Powell. 



These schools were designed to impart specific horticultural 

 instruction, and, more particularly, to awaken closeness of ob- 

 servation, and careful reasoning therefrom, upon the part of the 

 attendants. These schools were arranged for in the various 

 places through a local committee which was appointed by the 

 person who applied for the school in that community. Posters 

 were distributed some time in advance of the meetings, the 

 subject matter of one of which is presented herewith : 



A SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE 



V/ILL BE HELD IN THE 



Y. M. C. A. HALL, JAMESTOWN, CHAUTAUQUA 



COUNTY, N. Y., 



Friday and Saturday, August 28 and 29, 1896, beginning 



at 10 o'clock, sharp. 



This school is held under the auspices of the Experiment 

 Station Extension, or Nixon Law, which, for three years, ha» 

 given funds for the promulgation of horticultural knowledge in 

 Western New York. Its territory is the Fourth Judicial Depart- 

 ment, comprising twenty-two counties, of which the eastern- 

 most are Jelferson, Lewis, Herkimer, Oneida, Onondaga, Caynga, 

 Seneca, Yates and Steuben. The demands of this law are met 

 by conducting exf^eriments, by publishing the results of these 

 researches in bulletin form, in sending agents or experts to ex- 

 amine orchards and i)laiitations when advice is needed, and in 

 the holding of schools in which the various matters of science 



