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cated on an earlier page; educational trains, trolley cars, and boats; 

 farmers' institutes; boys' and girls' agi'icultural clubs and other work 

 with school children ; correspondence courses ; and numerous features 

 of demonstration work, such as road making, silo construction, 

 orchard spraying, milk testing, butter making, and field experiments. 

 A more extended account of this work is given in the report of the 

 farmers' institute specialist, beginning on page 387. 



Short courses in great variety were held. Several of the colleges 

 maintained short-course departments and had special funds for this 

 work. Louisiana held its first short course, beginning January 22, 

 and enrolled 5 students. 



More than 2,000 negro farmers and their families attended the 

 annual farmers' conference at Tuskegee Institute in January. In 

 connection with the conference a meeting of agi'icultural workers 

 in the various negi'o colleges and schools was held for the purpose 

 of forming a permanent association of such workers to consider 

 methods of instruction in agriculture and related topics. The pro- 

 gram consisted of papers and addresses on the management of 

 school farms, organization of departments of agriculture in negro 

 schools, experimental work on school farms, agricultural extension 

 work, how to encourage students to take agricultural courses, and 

 the training of teachers of agriculture. 



The first winter conference to be offered by the Florida Agricul- 

 tural and Mechanical College for Negroes was held at Tallahassee 

 in January, with a large attendance. 



The Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society established 

 12 scholarships for sons and daughters of Jewish farmers. These 

 scholarships are open to successful contestants in the writing of short 

 essays in English of not more than 500 words, and provide free 

 tuition in the short winter courses of any State agricultural college, 

 together with all other expenses except railroad fare. 



The Wabash Railroad offered to each of the 18 counties in Mis- 

 souri through which its lines run a scholarship of $50 in the short 

 winter courses at the Missouri College of Agriculture. The college 

 of agriculture also cooperated with the Frisco lines in holding night 

 schools of agriculture in St. Louis and Kansas City. The attend- 

 ance at St. Louis was over 1,800, and that at Kansas City over GOO. 

 Including these two night schools and three special trains, the faculty 

 of the college of agriculture addressed over 40,000 persons during 

 one month. 



In California successful short courses were held at the agricultural 

 school and farm at Davis. 



Short courses in cotton grading were held in Georgia and 

 Oklahoma. 



