EXTENSION DEPARTMENT 



TEACHING 



The teaching work of the Department for the past year included three 

 courses : Extension i and 2, as outHned in the College Announcement, and 

 Extension 14 in the Winter-Course. These courses aim to bring the 

 students into closer touch with agricultural affairs in their communities, 

 through study of the principles of organization and through practice in 

 writing on and presenting country-life subjects. Parliamentary practice is 

 given in connection with Extension 2, in order that our students may be 

 able to take their part in public meetings. The registration in Extension 

 I of 57 students, in Extension 2 of 33 students, and in Extension 14 

 (in the Winter-Course) of 35 students, taxed to the utmost the resources 

 of the Department ; since the laboratory work, or practice, consumed five 

 laboratory periods a week for course i, two laboratory periods a week for 

 course 14, and four laboratory periods a week for course 2 requiring 

 individual attention to each student. Last year there was an increased 

 interest in the Eastman Stage in public speaking. Nearly fifty entered 

 the competition, with the result that the Third Annual Eastman Stage 

 surpassed all former contests. 



EXTENSION 



Lectures 



Lectures by members of the college staff were given on request at 

 county and subordinate granges, fairs, agricultural and horticultural clubs, 

 farmers' and teachers' institutes, dairymen's and poultrymen's associa- 

 tions, schools, churches and Christian associations, farmers' picnics, and 

 Farmers' Week. Departments sometimes give lectures on their own 

 funds and do not always turn in reports to the Extension Office. In the 

 departmental reports the figures on such detached lectures should appear. 

 Directly on the funds of this Department, 274 lectures, with 30,341 persons 

 in attendance, were given last year in 48 counties, as shown below: 



Counties 



Attend- 

 ance 



Meetings 



Albany 



Allegany 



Broome 



Cattaraugus 



Cayuga 



Chautauqua 



Chemung 



Iclvi] 



535 

 610 



50 



430 



1,112 



3.512 

 542 



6 

 2 



2 



3 

 II 



19 

 6 



