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If this attempt is successful, we shall hope to extend the enter- 

 prise another year if the Extension work is continued. 



It will be seen that the central idea of this Reading-Course 

 movement is to educate the farmer rather than to give him mere 

 information. We expect that it will be taken upmost efficiently 

 by the younger men. The direct result of it is to awaken a 

 desire for more wisdom and to induce the part}^ to go to school or 

 college. Therefore, it appeals to the rising generation rather 

 more than to the satisfaction of present-day problems. 



Remarks by the Director ; 



The Director desires to say that the efficiency of the work has 

 been greatly promoted by the helpful co-operation of the Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture, Honorable James Wilson, Director A. C. 

 True and Professor H. W. Wiley, of Washington, D. C. No less 

 helpful have been the hearty support of the Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture, Honorable Charles A. Wieting, and the Superintendent 

 of Education, Honorable Charles R. Skinner, and their associates. 

 But most of all do we desire to acknowledge thanks to the many 

 citizens of the State who have so appreciatingh^ received the 

 instruction and to those who have so heartily entered into the 

 work of investigation. 



The various members of the staff seem to be imbued with the 

 true missionary spirit, and have thrown themselves into the 

 work with enthusiasm. Some of the professors and others have 

 given freely of time and advice, writing leaflets and bulletins and 

 working month after month, or even year after 3^ear, without 

 remuneration, anxious only that the work be extended and 

 energized. 



In conclusion, it may be said that the Nixon fund is not an 

 appropriation to Cornell University, but to the agricultural inter- 

 ests of the State, to be administered by Cornell University. The 

 University has not asked for the legislation. The movement 

 originated with the people and has been maintained by them. 

 The law provides that the money is "to be expended in giving 



