clxxii Extension Department 



The extension schools have passed the experimental stage. The de- 

 mand is far in excess of our capacity to meet it. It is recommended that 

 an extension school be placed in every rural county of the State, and 

 eventually in every county. In some cases two should be held in the 

 county because of regional divisions. This, of course, will mean a decided 

 increase in appropriations. 



The work of the Experimenters' League has been revised. It is 

 recommended that this work be increased and provision be made for the 

 attention of one person to it. 



We have already arranged to aid the people in a serious attempt to 

 secure for themselves a natural way of bringing state aid to their com- 

 munities through the election of county agents. In the six counties con- 

 tiguous to or near Tompkins county, there should be immediate 

 relationship with the College. The writer therefore recommends that 

 arrangements be made for an agent in each one of the above-mentioned 

 counties, and that this work be at once pressed forward with the aid of a 

 college automobile. It is further recommended that there be a county 

 agent to connect the needs of the people with the services of the College 

 in every rural county of th'e State. 



The Reading-Course report shows that this extension enterprise is 

 now more firmly etablished than it has been heretofore. The Cornell 

 study clubs should now be arranged and connected with other extension 

 societies. It is recommended that such provision be made for a foreman 

 in the Reading-Course and mailing-room organization as will permit the 

 Supervisor of the Reading-Course to follow well-marked-out itineraries 

 for the establishment of Cornell study clubs. 



Further, in connection with the Reading-Course, we should now follow 

 up more actively than ever the suggestion made some time ago by Director 

 Bailey, that mailing-room lists be made alive and a real part of our exten- 

 sion enterprise. This is now under way through the geographical index, 

 which shows the distribution by counties of names on our several lists. 

 Through the use of the county agents, and the lists of our readers by 

 counties, all our extension enterprises may be crystallized by counties 

 through the central point, the county agent. In this way some control 

 might be secured over the avenues of distribution of our literature. Co- 

 operation in the use of our bulletins might be more effectively obtained 

 with grange lecturers. In fact, our relationship to the State would be, 

 not through the State at large, but intimately county by county. 



In order to effectively guide all these extension enterprises from the 

 College so that there may be a just distribution of them, more concentrated 

 attention should be given to smaller areas of the State. There should be 



