XVI 



Report of the Director 



Total pages read, including all manuscripts and proofs:=8,725=: 

 average of 28 pages per day for every working day in twelve months. 



74 publications in 12 months (52 weeks) =: 1.4 publications, average 

 per week. 



2,122,415=176,868 per month=40,8i6 per week for mailing room 

 to handle. 



279 separate batches of manuscripts and proofs handled in 307 working 

 days. 



farmers' week 



The Farmers' Week convention has now come to be one of the most 

 important pieces of extension work that the College of Agriculture 

 undertakes. The Week becomes an assembling place for a number of 

 state organizations, a conference occasion for persons interested in all 

 phases of country life, and a general forum for the discussion of rural 

 questions not only in their technical but also in their general economic, 

 social, religious, educational, and sanitary aspects. Farmers' Week has 

 become important enough to have distinct relation to the processes of 

 state welfare. In order that the full drift of the Farmers' Week enter- 

 prise may be understood, I am submitting herewith the programs as 

 conducted at the last series, February 19-24, 1912: 



Section I. Lectures and Demonstrations 



Monday 

 9:00 A. M. 



Professor H. H. Wing. — Treatment of cows before, during, and after 



parturition. Animal Husbandry 112. 

 Professor E. S. Savage. — Feeding dairy calves. Auditorium. 

 Machinery exhibit. Farm Mechanics building. See p. 24. 



