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VIII. The Bureau of Nature-Study, conducted as a part of the 

 State extension teaching in agriculture, has organized and conducted 

 486 Junior Naturalist Clubs with a total enrollment of 14,318, dis- 

 tributed among all the counties of the State except four. Fifty 

 topics have been treated and the supervisor has, as usual, carried on 

 a voluminous correspondence relating thereto." 



IX. In the Home Nature-Study Course (State extension work), 

 four lesson leaflets have been published and circulated among the 

 school teachers of the State, the issues averaging nearly 2,000 copies 

 each. Each of these leaflets covered several distinct subjects so that 

 this work aggregated the placing of 23,000 practical, simplified 

 lessons in nature study into the hands of the teachers of New York 

 State. The topics covered were birds, trees, plants, insects, and fish. 

 This work, which has heretofore been largely confined to the town 

 and city schools, is now being carried to the rural schools with much 

 success, and the demand for leaflets this year was greater than ever 

 before. 



X. The third year of the Farmers' Wives' Reading Course (State 

 extension work) shows a live membership of 17,800 women in the 

 State. The course now covers three series of five bulletins each, 

 dealing with The Farm House and Garden, The Farm Family, and 

 Food and Sanitation. 



XI. The Farmers' Reading Course is really a precursor of the short 

 winter-course in agriculture described in the report of the Director. 

 The registration this year in these courses aggregated 9,554 new 

 readers. 



In all the above extension courses discussion papers are sent out 

 regularly and returned by the readers, and whenever questions arise 

 on which more specific information is desired a personal letter in 

 every case is sent in reply. 



Such, in brief, is the nature of the work that has been carried on 

 b}' the Cornell University College of Agriculture under the appro- 

 priations for the Federal Experiment Station and the State Bureau 

 for Extension Teaching in Agriculture. That the work is meeting 

 a real need of the agricultural population of the State is evidenced 

 by the growing enthusiasm and hearty support which the College is 

 receiving not only from individual farmers but also from all the 

 agricultural societies of the State, by whose representatives the 

 College and Station are inspected annually on the invitation of the 

 Board of Trustees of the University. 



Respectfully submitted, 



J. G. SCHURMAN, 

 President of Cornell University. 



