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The material should be as alive, as personal, and as sound (so far as it 

 goes) as the material of any other teaching; and extension teaching is 

 as much worth doing on the part of the teacher as any other teaching. 

 The extension effort, therefore, must be an organic part of the institu- 

 tion, issuing from it naturally, and taking to the people such part of its 

 findings and outlook as they can usefully apply. 



The College of Agriculture is maintained in good part by the State for 

 the benefit of the people of the State, and it must serve the people in every 

 way that it can serve them effectively. The College is attacking the 

 problem of rural civilization. 



2. The extension work should be in charge of an extension staff. An 

 extension staff" should be as well trained for its work as another staff 

 is trained for regular teaching or for research. The members should be 

 paid as well as members of other staffs. These persons should be students 

 by nature. They must keep up with the best scientific work in their fields, 

 and all of them should have opportunity to make tests, experiments, and 

 studies of their own. If a person is to impart much, he must acquire 

 much. 



3. In the organization of the work, each department in the College 

 that deals v. ith agricultural subject-matter should undertake extension 

 work as far and as rapidly as possible, to the end that the department may 

 completely serve the particular interests of the State that it represents. 

 The extension work in the subject-matter in these departments should be 

 in charge of the departments themselves ; and the funds for this depart- 

 mental work should be appropriated directly to the departments. 



4. There should also be an Extension Teaching Department in the 

 College, to administer all extension work that is not strictly departmental 

 (that is not a part of the regular departments of the College) ; and it 

 should aid all departments, so far as it can, in the extension of their 

 special work and make recommendations to them ; and it should make 

 recommendations to the Director as to the most advantageous distribu- 

 tion of extension monies in the College. The Extension Teaching De- 

 partment will have certain functions that are peculiarly its own, such as 

 the administering of itinerant and traveling schools, outside lecture 

 courses, work at the fairs, delegations and excursions coming to the 

 College, reading-courses, correspondence courses, management of resi- 

 dent or local agents, farmers' week and similar enterprises, mailing-room 

 extension, experimenters' league, welfare work in the communities, 

 general publicity and helpfulness of the College of Agriculture to the 

 people of the State. 



At the College itself, the Extension Department should give regular 

 instruction, at least for the time being, in the training of students in 



