io6 Department of Extension Teaching. 



during the year. Many of the departments did outside lecturing during 

 the past year. With their experimental and teaching work they are often 

 hard pressed by the extension work beyond what is reasonable to expect 

 in view of the research and teaching work required. 



The lectures by members of the College staff were given on request at 

 county and subordinate fairs, agricultural and horticultural clubs, farmers' 

 and teachers' institutes, dairymen's and poultrymen's associations, farm 

 trains, and Farmers' Week. Three educational farm trains were con- 

 ducted last year by the College in cooperation with the New York Central, 

 the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg, and the Lehigh Valley railroads. 

 In each case a staff of ten to fourteen of the older professors, as advisers, 

 remained on the road for three to six days, giving short talks on the 

 railroad at points previously scheduled for stops. Approximately 40,000 

 persons were directly reached in this way, and indirectly doubtless three 

 or four times more. 



During the past year, representatives of the following railroads have 

 sent high officials as representatives to the College of Agriculture to 

 arrange for educational work of a cooperative nature, as seemed best 

 to the College of Agriculture : New York Central, Lehigh Valley, Lacka- 

 wanna, Erie, Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg, Delaware and Hudson, 

 and Mohawk and Oneonta. 



Last year the Farmers' Week was placed on a more firm basis. Over 

 2,000 persons were in attendance during the week, traveling from the 

 farthermost parts of the State, coming sometimes as individuals and many 

 times as representatives of organizations. A number of organizations 

 met here during that week and instituted the policy for organizations to 

 hold annual meetings here during Farmers' Week. The difficult question 

 of sufficient accommodations was settled by the cordial cooperation of 

 the Ithaca Business Men's Association. 



The demand for educational exhibits at the fairs has become very heavy. 

 This year fourteen departments were represented at the State Fair, and 

 a staff of 20 to 25 persons was in constant attendance, giving counsel to 

 the hundreds of inquirers. Educational exhibits went to twenty-five county 

 or town fairs, with practically all expenses assumed by the local fair 

 associations. This marks a long step in advance and, with other similar 

 propositions from the College, places the burden of such work squarely 

 on the local people with a fair division of expenses. This does two things : 

 it allows the work to grow more rapidly than it could under the State 

 appropriations alone, and it has an educational effect in arousing the 

 community to action. 



