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5. To furnish the students in training schools and training classes with 

 up-to-date subject-matter in agriculture. Many of the rural teachers of 

 the future will be graduates of such schools. 



6. To keep in touch with city superintendents. 



7. To aid all teachers who desire to give instruction along some special 

 lines of agriculture not outlined in the State Syllabus. 



8. To interest all rural school children in Corn Day, now an established 

 annual event in many schools. The purpose of this movement is to im- 

 prove the corn crop of the State. Other crops will be considered later. 



9. To aid leaders of agricultural contests by sending material on the 

 organization and conduct of various kinds of contests ; and to supply con- 

 testants with accurate technical subject-matter. 



10. To encourage the children to write to the College letters relating 

 to rural problems. This will interest them in a higher institution of 

 learning and will teach them to consult persons trained along special lines 

 in agriculture. 



11. To furnish speakers on educational topics at meetings of teachers 

 and grangers. 



12. To know, through correspondence or personally, at least three 

 spirited grangers in each county through whom any appeal for rural 

 education can be made. These persons should receive all our publications, 

 reports of work, and the like, and be called into council occasionally. 



13. To reach, in as personal a way as possible, rural boys and girls 

 between the ages of fourteen and twenty-two. Many of these young 

 persons can be reached through the rural school teacher. We can now 

 reach individually 7,800 boys and 10,000 girls between fourteen and 

 twenty-two years of age ; but our funds are not sufficient to prepare 

 work for them or to conduct a correspondence with them. 



14. To keep in touch with agricultural education in other States. 



15. To keep in touch with literature on agricultural education. 



16. To collect and exhibit in the Rural Schoolhouse at the College a 

 representative school library and standard school equipment for agri- 

 cultural instruction. 



17. To cooperate in the movement for developing country-life 

 recreation. 



18. To further in every w^ay possible the movement for the improve- 

 ment of school buildings and grounds. 



19. To be ready to promote any movement that seeks to redirect country 

 life through the children of the State. Our connection with schools is 

 such that in one mail we can send a message to 450,000 children in New 

 York State. 



